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Galileo’s Journey to the Underworld: The Case for Interdisciplinary Thinking

In 1588, the young Galileo delivered some lectures that were...

Newton's Laws

In his Principia Isaac Newton used his law of universal...

Identity and integrity in Stalin’s Russia: The case of Shostakovich

Benford’s Very Strange Law

The first digits of randomly chosen numbers arising naturally or...

1928 – Annus Mirabilis of the Christmas Carol

Jeremy Summerly and the St Luke’s Carollers make a case for 1928 as the year in which the Christmas carol went viral.

Travels with my Ant

How do the laws of nature lead to large-scale patterns...

The Computer Science of Everyday Things

Moore's Law predicts substantial, sustained improvement in computing power. Yet...

Connecting the Dots: Milestones in Graph Theory

Graph theory is the study of connections, as may be...

Fourier's Series

Joseph Fourier was interested in the mathematical study of the...

The Geometry of Music

Geometers study shapes and how they transform into one other...