“They are like old soldiers,” said Leo and once again I marvelled at his knack for distilling the essence in just a few words. We were sitting high up in the stadium, Leo Khachiyan, my wife Markéta, and I. Three people with a university education and not one of us had the sense to bring along a hip flask. So now we were shivering in the cold October evening while down below Mick and Keith swagg...

In this paper we survey results about affinely regular polygons. First, the definitions and classification of affinely regular polygons are given. Then the theory of Bachmann–Schmidt is outlined. There are several classical theorems about regular polygons, some of them having analogues in finite planes, such as the Napoleon–Barlotti theorem. Such analogues, variants of classical theorems are al...

return, they disseminated, not only in the garrison towns in which they were quartered, but also through the civil population of their native countries. The name commonly applied to it at the time, the " Egyptian Ophthalmia," sufficiently indicates its origin. Napoleon landed in Egypt on July 1st, 1798, with an army of 35,000 men. Within three weeks his troops were attacked by foes more deadly ...