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A Millennium of Mathematical Puzzles

In the 8th century Alcuin of York described the wolf...

We all have our problems! Mathematicians can be divided into...

Does the spread of multiply-resistant microbes signal the end of...

The First World War was the first time that war...

How did numbers arise? How were they written down? What...

A recent best-seller claims that rapid communication across the world...

From the writers of Mesopotamian tablets, via treachery in 16th-century...

From the Egyptian pyramids to modern sculpture, geometry has been...

Dramatic increases in life span over the past 300 years...

A special lecture to mark the centenary of the Royal...