Plato's Cave: Thinking about Climate Change Professor Melissa Lane 18:00 - 19:00 Register now to: Watch online Need help registering?
Mathematics in War and Peace - Flying Mathematicians As a commemoration of the end of the First World War, the event will focus on the theme of mathematics in war and peacetime.
Mathematics in War and Peace - Stories about Mathematicians Killed in WW1 As a commemoration of the end of the First World War, the event will focus on the theme of mathematics in war and peacetime.
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.
Mathematics, Motion, and Truth: The Earth goes round the Sun The reality of the Earth's motion, as proclaimed by Copernicus...
19th-Century Eclipse Expeditions During the late 19th century, British and American organisations such...
Shaping Mathematical Practices of the Science of the Stars Extant manuscripts, early library catalogues, lists of loans and wills...
Florence Nightingale and her Crimean War Statistics: Lessons for hospital safety, public administration and nursing Professor McDonald will discusses the history and the myth surrounding...
Public Key Cryptography: Secrecy in Public For centuries massive intellectual effort has gone into methods of...
Victorian Era Astronomy: On Land and in the Skies In the late 19th-century, astronomical research could be practical, using...
Engineering: Archimedes of Syracuse In the 3rd century BCE, the Sicilian polymath Archimedes significantly advanced human understanding of mathematics, geometry and astronomy.