Mathematical puzzles
Past Mathematical puzzles Lectures
What are the limits of proof, and what follows? – A timely look at the life and mathematical work of Alan Turing. As we approach the...
Proofs are important not just for developing critical reasoning, and...
The first digits of randomly chosen numbers arising naturally or in human affairs display surprising statistical regularities. We will...
Robin Wilson's new book (published by Penguin) is a celebration of one of the nineteenth century's most gifted minds, whose writings...
In 1900 the German mathematician David Hilbert presented the mathematical community with 23 unsolved problems. What were they, and how...
In the 8th century Alcuin of York described the wolf, goat and cabbage problem - so did Lewis Carroll over 1000 years later. This...
WE ALL HAVE OUR PROBLEMS Mathematicians can be divided into theory-builders and problem-solvers. In these lectures, we look at some...
How did numbers arise? How were they written down? What does it mean to say that numbers are rational, complex, or transcendental? What...
From the writers of Mesopotamian tablets, via treachery in 16th-century Italy, to a famous duel fought in Paris, the history of algebra...
From the Egyptian pyramids to modern sculpture, geometry has been at the heart of our culture. Central to this story has been '...
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