SIMPLE MEMORIES FROM A SIMPLE MATHEMATICS LECTURER - LEELAVATI PRIZE LECTURE

I was told I needed to write this about 6 months ago. Since then I’ve been wondering what to write. Along the years I’ve said or written almost everything there is to say about the maths village. Saying the same things twice, three times bores me to death. I can give the same lecture numerous times, even making it better and more fun to give each time. But for ordinary life which isn’t maths? Never mind twice, I don’t even want to tell it once.