Irish Mathematical Society

• Cumann Matamaitice na hÉirinn
• Twitter

BULLETIN Number 73 Summer 2014

ISSN 0791-5578

Contents

Editorial

Notices from the Society

• Officers and Local Representatives 1
• Applying for IMS Membership 2

Articles

General

• Fiacre Ó Cairbre:
  Mathematics education and the public's interaction with the Hamilton story, 5-19

Research

• Horst Alzer and Wenchang Chu:
  Two Trigonometric Identities, 21-28
• Olcay Karaatli, Refik Keskin and Huilin Zhu:
  Infinitely many positive integer solutions of the quadratic Diophantine Equation $x^2-8B_nxy-2y^2=\pm 2^r$, 29-45
• Jean B. Nganou:
  The number of quadratic subfields, 47-52

Book Reviews

• Michael Brennan:
  Siddartha Sen: The Joy of Understanding and Solving Problems: A Guide to School Mathematics, 53-55
• Gabrielle Kelly:
  Paul J. Nahin: Will You be Alive 10 Years from Now?, 56-58
• Gabrielle Kelly:
  David Hand: The Improbability Principle, 59-60

Problem Page, 61-63
Edited by Ian Short