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Mark Ronan

Numbers game (contd.)
The Monty Hall problem requires clear, unbiased thinking as new information comes in
Mark Ronan

New Year confusions
We celebrated our New Year on January 1 but the Chinese will do so this month. Why the difference?
Mark Ronan

Acting the goat with the Greeks
Innumeracy at the top of European politics beggared Greece and may now vitiate Brexit negotiations
Mark Ronan

Indiana Jones and the Table of Babel
An ancient Mesopotamian tablet shows Babylonian trigonometrists had long anticipated the Greeks
Mark Ronan

Coming to Terms with History
For the first time in the history of the Bayreuth Festival, a Jewish director staged a new production
Mark Ronan

Berlin Magic
Forget 'best in the world' — the Berlin Philharmonic may not even be the best orchestra in Berlin
Mark Ronan

Dating Dilemmas
Trying to change the calendar to accommodate religious festivals has been a centuries-old minefield
Mark Ronan

Country Cousins Show How To Do It
Private festivals avoid the absurd interpretations of classic operas that shame the subsidised sector
Mark Ronan

The One-Eyed Maths Monster
Leonhard Euler was the presiding genius at the courts of Peter, Frederick and Catherine the Great
Mark Ronan

Not Pi In The Sky After All
An Indian genius had little formal education but his findings astounded Cambridge mathematicians
Mark Ronan

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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