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Who invented algebra?

Arabic mathematicians embraced the mathematics of Ancient Greece and India...

How hard is a hard problem?

How can we distinguish between 'easy problems' and 'hard problems'...

Prime-time mathematics

Prime numbers form the building blocks of arithmetic. But if...

In the beginning: the Roman, the Viking and the Norman Conquests

As an island people, the inhabitants of Britain were repeatedly...

Much ado about zero

The concept of zero developed in many cultures over thousands...

Two thousand years of London Bridge

The fascinating story of all the bridges that have been...

Here’s looking at Euclid

It is often argued that mathematics as we know it...

Keep taking the tablets

Many thousands of surviving mathematical clay tablets provide much information...

Better programming

This series of Geometry Lectures looks at all aspects of...

Computer Circles