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Lessons from the Past, Warnings for the Future

The concluding lecture takes the example of HIV/AIDS and discusses...

An area of which 19th century British mathematics could be...

When lives depend on calculations, human error can kill. From...

There are many kinds of pattern in mathematics and many...

Typhus, the subject of the fifth lecture in the series, was...

Not necessarily, for example the average person has fewer than...

Long multiplication, long division and logarithms are, for many, dim-remembered...

‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth century...

Carl Friedrich Gauss one of the greatest mathematicians, is said...

For 100 years up to the end of the 19th...