• Reprinted with permission of the author himself, who years ago had to deal with yours truly as a student. Errors in transcription accrue to the latter. (Titular honours shared with policeman-cook Henry Crabbe) “Every mathematics master dreads the day when he will have to explain the Theorem of Pythagoras” – HF Ellis, The World of…

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