How to Amaze Your Friends

1. How to Amaze Your Friends Chris Budd

2. Most maths is • Precise • Careful • Safe • Logical • Today we will look at maths and • Murder • Suicide • Love • Conquest

3. The Minotaur

4. Cretan Labyrinth

5. Seed for the Cretan Labyrinth

6. Ancient stone labyrinth

7. Mappa Mundi Maiden Castle

8. The rise of the maze Maze at Hatfield House

9. Hampton Court Maze

10. How to solve a maze and amaze your friends Method one .. The hand on the hedge method X Always keep turning left (or right)

11. X Add more hedges X Add more hedges

12. If a bird can walk on a hedge from the entrance to the centre then you can solve the maze using the hand on the hedge method

14. To solve a more general maze we need to learn about Networks Bridges of Konigsberg B A C D

15. Network Even Node Odd Node Edge

16. Maze Network D G I J L K C M E H F N B A B D F L N I A C E G K M H Centre J

17. Other Networks Friends (social network) Bob Mary Dave Basil Alice Richard Mary

18. The Internet

19. Using a network and some peanuts you can solve any maze • Start at the entrance and take any path • If you come to a new node then leave a peanut and take any new path • If you come to an old node (or the end of a blind alley) and you are on a new path then turn back along this path • If you come to an old node and you are on an old path then take a new path (or another old path if no new path exists) • Never go down a path more than twice Good luck!