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SUMMARY:Sudoku: an alternative history - Professor Peter Cameron (Queen Ma
 ry\, University of London)
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DESCRIPTION:Although instructions for Sudoku in the press often say "There
 's no mathematics required"\, in fact there are many mathematical connecti
 ons\, going back to Euler. I will start off by explaining how the ingredie
 nts of the puzzle came to be developed by mathematicians. Sudoku is closel
 y related to Latin squares\, which have applications in statistics and cry
 ptography. I will also talk about a variant of Sudoku due to Robert Connel
 ly\, whose analysis involves other parts of mathematics such as affine geo
 metry over finite fields and error-correcting codes.
LOCATION:MR3\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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