Project Euler

In the not so distant, yet scarily dim past, I completed a maths degree at Birmingham University. From the day I started work at Paragon (which was two weeks after I graduated, and one week after my honeymoon) I've been rather concerned about how fast I've been forgetting all my hardly earned knowledge. These days, I doubt whether I could tell a lemma from a lemur. I stumbled across Project Euler a couple of weeks ago, and its sounds like the ideal remedy to counter my brain rot. Every two weeks since October 2001 they've been publishing a new little maths problem. Let them speak for themselves:

Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.

I thought it would make for an interesting series of posts if I took on Euler with all the might of C#3.0, seeing if I can tackle each problem using functional programming techniques. Since that is my aim, I can't promise that the posts will be insightful from a mathematical point of view, or that I'll hit upon the best algorithms. But you never know. Problem 1 coming up next time.