Delta-K
Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 54 Issue 1, June 2017
81 to 82
Richard Hoshino
The book opens with an atypical scene: a teenage girl waits nervously as she is about to participate in the Canadian Mathematical Olympiad. Moments later, the reader is presented with a set of five math problems. As someone who has delighted in math contest problems since I was a student, my attention was immediately ensnared. Indeed, I stopped reading and plunged into solving the problems! After some success, it dawned on me that the author probably didn’t expect his readers to put down his novel, pull out a pad of paper and start doing math. Or did he?
