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The Lion and the Christian, and Other Pursuit and Evasion Games

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An Invitation to Mathematics

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In this note we shall show that a playful question in recreational mathematics can quickly lead to mathematical results and unsolved problems.

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  1. Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, UK

    Béla Bollobás

  2. Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 38152, USA

    Béla Bollobás

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  1. Research I, Jacobs University, Campus Ring 1, Bremen, 28759, Germany

    Dierk Schleicher

  2. Immenkorv 13, Bordesholm, 24582, Germany

    Malte Lackmann

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Bollobás, B. (2011). The Lion and the Christian, and Other Pursuit and Evasion Games. In: Schleicher, D., Lackmann, M. (eds) An Invitation to Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19533-4_12

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