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History from Below: Mathematics, Instruments and Archaeology

In recent decades, archaeologists working on sites such as the...

With the invention of printing, mathematical writings became widely available...

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

My lectures have shown that while most human behaviours are...

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

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

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

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

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

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