Faggot’s Fretful Fiasco: The Unsung Geometry of Musical Scales A lecture beginning with the question of why the frets...
Planes and pacifism: Activities and attitudes of British mathematicians during WWI The First World War was the first time that war...
Mathematical Journeys into Fictional Worlds Literary satire has long used mathematical concepts to reinforce its points.
Alan Turing: The Founder of Computer Science Professor Jonathan Bowen reflects on the brilliant work and tragic...
The Big Brain: Size and Intelligence For centuries, scientists have tried to identify what is special...
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 Grand Narrative of the History of Computing A discussion of the core concepts of modern computing and...
The Secret Mathematicians From composers to painters, writers to choreographers, the mathematician’s palette...
The Movement of Ponytails, Ships and the Millennium Bridge A question from the lecture 'Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Mathematics...