Christopher M. Maslanka (born 27 October1954) is a British writer and broadcaster, specialising in puzzles and problem solving. October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
He was brought up in Lowdham, Nottingham, in a family of part Polish extraction (he speaks fluent Polish). He was educated at The Becket School, Nottingham and then studied Physics with moderate success at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. In Nottinghamshire, England, there is a small hamlet named Lowdham. ... Nottingham is a city (and county town of Nottinghamshire) in the East Midlands of England. ... Main School The Becket School, Nottingham (Mixed comprehensive secondary 11 - 18) was formed in 1975 by the amalgamation of two schools. ... Nottingham is a city (and county town of Nottinghamshire) in the East Midlands of England. ... Physics (from the Greek, φυσικός (physikos), natural, and φÏσις (physis), nature) is the science of Nature. ... St Catherines College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ...
He writes for The Guardian and has published several books of puzzles. He also presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Puzzle Panel. The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Puzzle Panel is a light-hearted, though cerebral, panel game that has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 since 1998. ...
Bibliography
Christopher Maslanka: Pyrgic Puzzler: Classic Conundrums, 1987, Kingswood. ISBN 0434980757
Christopher Maslanka: Guardian Book of Puzzles, 1990, Fourth Estate Ltd. ISBN 1872180728
Christopher Maslanka: Mind Olympics, 1993, The Puzzle Club. ISBN 1897994001
Christopher Maslanka: The Little Book of Puzzles, 1995, The Puzzle Club. ISBN 0952745607
ChrisMaslanka : Two angles on the connection between doing maths and writing music.Over the next half hour,I'll be hearing lots more and asking whether this really means that music is mathematical.A quest in which I'll be aided by the advanced computer android Hell zero.
ChrisMaslanka : But it must be fair to say,because it is to a certain extent,arbitrary,would it had mattered how you arrived at that chord,d'you think?
ChrisMaslanka : Bartok used Fibonacci numbers too,for example in the music for strings, percussion and celeste.There's even a xylophone rhythm which goes 1,2,3,5,8,5,3,2,1 (Xylophone plays),and Roy Howard's got a rather more subtle example from the first movement of the piece.
ChrisMaslanka and the panel attempt to baffle each other with brainteasers based on words, numbers and logic.
ChrisMaslanka presents a battle of wits between panellists including crossword dictionary compiler Anne Bradford, puzzle setter David Bodycombe and chess champion William Hartston.
Joining host ChrisMaslanka on the panel with their puzzles are maze designer Professor Angela Newing, mathematician Victor Bryant, and puzzle setter David Bodycombe.
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