Mathematics in War and Peace - Euler's Work on Ballistics As a commemoration of the end of the First World War, the event will focus on the theme of mathematics in war and peacetime.
Early Mathematics Day: The Archimedes Codex A lecture on the Archimedes Palimpsest, delivered by Professor Reviel...
Early Mathematics Day: Exploring Ancient Greek and Roman Numeracy An examination of the role of numeracy within ancient civilisations...
Modelling the Spread of Infectious Diseases Mathematics has proved to be of considerable benefit in modelling the...
Public Key Cryptography: Secrecy in Public For centuries massive intellectual effort has gone into methods of...
Engineering: Archimedes of Syracuse In the 3rd century BCE, the Sicilian polymath Archimedes significantly advanced human understanding of mathematics, geometry and astronomy.
Networks: The Internet and Beyond Networks were seen as a rather arcane and dull area in computer science. Then along came the internet, and everything changed for ever.
Geometry: A New Weapon in the Fight Against Viruses The Joint London Mathematical Society/Gresham College Annual Lecture Viruses like...