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Holmes + Moriarty = Mathematics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Thomas Dence
Thomas Dence*
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Ashland University, Ashland, OH 44839 USA
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In the autumn of 2011 the movie Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows appeared (see [1]). It was a sequel to the Holmes movie from two years earlier. Unlike the first movie, A Game of Shadows Holmes' arch enemy Professor Moriarty featured more prominently than Holmes himself.

One scene, in particular, has Holmes sizing up his opponent by making a visit to Moriarty at his university office. But in the background sits Moriarty's blackboard, filled completely with mathematical equations, symbols, drawings, and formulas. One of these deserves our special attention.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 98 , Issue 541 , March 2014, pp. 51 - 57
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2014

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1. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Guy Ritchie, Warner Brothers, (2011).Google Scholar
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