Let’s Twist Again: Throwing, Jumping, and Spinning Throwing things, and jumping up and down or along, lies...
100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know About Sport A lecture to mark the publication of Professor Barrow's latest...
Mathematical Journeys into Fictional Worlds Literary satire has long used mathematical concepts to reinforce its points.
Citius, Altius, Fortius: Records, Medals and Drug Taking We examine the striking patterns between world record performances in...
Mathematical Structure in Fiction Mathematical concepts have often been used to create new structural forms in fiction, as in the works of Raymond Queneau and Jorge Luis Borges.
The World of Isaac Newton This illustrated lecture will cover Newton's life and his mathematical and scientific labours in the context of 17th-century England.
The Secret Mathematicians From composers to painters, writers to choreographers, the mathematician’s palette...
Wren, Hooke and Willis: Divine geometry and natural design The status of geometry with respect to the natural world...