Mathematical Pie Home Page

Welcome to www.mathematicalpie.com

The purpose of this site is to share a collection of old Mathematical Pie magazines with students and teachers of Mathematics, or anyone else who has an interest in the subject. These magazines contain a diverse selection of articles and puzzles relating to Mathematics, and issue Number One appeared in 1950. But, of course, the subject is timeless!

For those of you who are familiar with the magazine, and how it used to print the continuous decimal places of π at the bottom of each page - you will see that issue Number 18 has the start of the number 'π = 3.14159 .....'! Click on the image to the right to see the original scan of that issue.

I am grateful to a number of people over the last few years who have contributed magazines that have now brought the collection up to over 100 issues. They include Bernard Cook, who gave to me the initial selection of old issues, whilst we were colleagues in the Mathematics Department of the local F.E. college. Others subequently filled in the gaps, or supplied better copies, they include Paul Weighill, Louise Grogan, Rob Cairns, Guy Martland, Malcolm Drewett, and John Nicholson whose contribution took the collection up to issue 102.

I have now completed the upgrading of the site to include pdf files for all of the magazines, 102 issues! This will facilitate better reading of the magazines. For each issue click on 'Print Booklet' to open Adobe Acrobat Reader, then with A4 paper, print double sided and you can produce the A5 booklet copy of the magazine.

My thanks, also, to Nigel Collins, son of Roland Collins, one of the founders of the magazine back in 1950. You can see the details, supplied by Nigel, relating to the history of the publication by clicking on the links below.

New feature, you are now just 4 clicks away from downloading all 102 magazines as pdf files that may be printed, click on any of the buttons below:

Some important tips when printing the magazines:
1. Orientation of paper is 'Landscape'
2. When Double Sided printing, 'Flip on the Short Edge'
3. Page Scaling should be 'Fit to Printable Area'

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View History of Pie founded by Roland Collins in 1950 Print History
Issue Numbers
Number 1 October 1950 Print Booklet	Number 2 February 1951 Print Booklet	Number 3 May 1951 Print Booklet	Number 4 October 1951 Print Booklet	Number 5 February 1952 Print Booklet	Number 6 May 1952 Print Booklet
Number 7 October 1952 Print Booklet	Number 8 February 1953 Print Booklet	Number 9 May 1953 Print Booklet	Number 10 October 1953 Print Booklet	Number 11 February 1954 Print Booklet	Number 12 May 1954 Print Booklet
Number 13 October 1954 Print Booklet	Number 14 February 1955 Print Booklet	Number 15 May 1955 Print Booklet	Number 16 October 1955 Print Booklet	Number 17 February 1956 Print Booklet	Number 18 May 1956 Print Booklet
Number 19 October 1956 Print Booklet	Number 20 February 1957 Print Booklet	Number 21 May 1957 Print Booklet	Number 22 October 1957 Print Booklet	Number 23 February 1958 Print Booklet	Number 24 May 1958 Print Booklet
Number 25 October 1958 Print Booklet	Number 26 February 1959 Print Booklet	Number 27 May 1959 Print Booklet	Number 28 October 1959 Print Booklet	tNumber 29 February 1960 Print Booklet	Number 30 May 1960 Print Booklet
Number 31 October 1960 Print Booklet	Number 32 February 1961 Print Booklet	Number 33 May 1961 Print Booklet	Number 34 October 1961 Print Booklet	Number 35 February 1962 Print Booklet	Number 36 May 1962 Print Booklet
Number 37 October 1962 Print Booklet	Number 38 February 1963 Print Booklet	Number 39 May 1963 Print Booklet	Number 40 October 1963 Print Booklet	Number 41 February 1964 Print Booklet	Number 42 May 1964 Print Booklet
Number 43 October 1964 Print Booklet	Number 44 February 1965 Print Booklet	Number 45 May 1965 Print Booklet	Number 46 October 1965 Print Booklet	Number 47 February 1966 Print Booklet	Number 48 May 1966 Print Booklet
Number 49 October1966 Print Booklet	Number 50 February 1967 Print Booklet	Number 51 May 1967 Print Booklet	Number 52 October 1967 Print Booklet	Number 53 Spring 1968 Print Booklet	Number 54 Summer 1968 Print Booklet
Number 55 Autumn 1968 Print Booklet	Number 56 Spring 1969 Print Booklet	Number 57 Summer 1969 Print Booklet	Number 58 Autumn 1969 Print Booklet	Number 59 Spring 1970 Print Booklet	Number 60 Summer 1970 Print Booklet
Number 61 Autumn 1970 Print Booklet	Number 62 Spring 1971 Print Booklet	Number 63 Summer 1971 Print Booklet	Number 64 Autumn 1971 Print Booklet	Number 65 Spring 1972 Print Booklet	Number 66 Summer 1972 Print Booklet
Number 67 Autumn 1972 Print Booklet	Number 68 Spring 1973 Print Booklet	Number 69 Summer 1973 Print Booklet	Number 70 Autumn 1973 Print Booklet	Number 71 Spring 1974 Print Booklet	Number 72 Summer1974 Print Booklet
Number73 Autumn 1974 Print Booklet	Number 74 Spring 1975 Print Booklet	Number 75 Summer 1975 Print Booklet	Number 76 Autumn 1975 Print Booklet	Number 77 Spring 1976 Print Booklet	Number 78 Summer 1976 Print Booklet
Number 79 Autumn 1976 Print Booklet	Number 80 Spring 1977 Print Booklet	Number 81 Summer 1977 Print Booklet	Number 82 Autumn 1977 Print Booklet	Number 83 Spring 1978 Print Booklet	Number 84 Summer 1978 Print Booklet
Number 85 Autumn 1978 Print Booklet	Number 86 Spring 1979 Print Booklet	Number 87 Summer 1979 Print Booklet	Number 88 Autumn 1979 Print Booklet	Number 89 Spring 1980 Print Booklet	Number 90 Summer 1980 Print Booklet
Number 91 Autumn 1980 Print Booklet	Number 92 Spring 1981 Print Booklet	Number 93 Summer 1981 Print Booklet	Number 94 Autumn 1981 Print Booklet	Number 95 Spring 1982 Print Booklet	Number 96 Summer 1982 Print Booklet
Number 97 Autumn 1982 Print Booklet	Number 98 Spring 1983 Print Booklet	Number 99 Summer 1983 Print Booklet	Number 100 Autumn 1983 Print Booklet	Number 101 Spring 1984 Print Booklet	Number 102 Summer 1984 Print Booklet

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