Journal Article Bungee Jumping Get access D. A. Lawson D. A. Lawson Duncan Lawson gained his BA and DPhil degrees from Oxford University. After working for British Gas Research pic for three years in 1987 he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at what was then Coventry Polytechnic. He is now Head of the BP Mathematics Centre at Coventry University. Despite the topic ofthis paper he intends to keep his feet firmly on the ground. Address for correspondence : Mathematics Division, School of Mathematical & Information Sciences, Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Teaching Mathematics and its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, Volume 14, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 19–22, https://doi.org/10.1093/teamat/14.1.19 Published: 01 March 1995 Article history Received: 01 August 1994 Accepted: 01 October 1994 Published: 01 March 1995