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In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from the agony of research. The trouble, however, I freely admit, is that in practice you get either no teaching, or else far too much.
"The Mathematician's Art of Work" in Bela Bollobas (ed.) Littlewood's Miscellany, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
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When a Number System Loses Uniqueness: The Case of the Maya
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Related articles in Convergence:
Maya Calendar Conversions, by Ximena Catepillan and Waclaw Szymanski (2010)
Maya Cycles of Time, by Sandra Monteferrante (2007)
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Shell-Gellasch, Amy and Pedro J. Freitas, "When a Number System Loses Uniqueness: The Case of the Maya," Loci (May 2012), DOI: 10.4169/loci003883