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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
E23: More about Love and Death
Author : Alexander Soifer
Published in: The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: The Third Decade and Further Explorations
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
I hope you did not take the DNA’s featured in my problem 22.5 to faithfully reflect reality. Remember, we are in the Illusory World of Mathematics! To whet your appetite for the problem, I invented the bacterium bacillus anthracis, causing anthrax (death), in problem 22.5.(A). In problem 22.5.(B), I went even further by imagining the bacterium bacillus amoris, causing love. I was inspired by a talk by a Ph.D. student Martin Klazar that I attended in 1996 during my long term visit of Charles University in the beautiful Prague, Czech Republic. Now Martin is a professor at that same university.