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4000 years of numbers

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

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

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

This is the 2007 joint London Mathematical Society / Gresham...

Professor Robert Plomin is MRC Research Professor in Behavioural Genetics...

Leönhard Euler (born 15 April 1707), the 'Mozart of mathematics'...

What do we mean by exponential growth? How quickly does...

What is meant by the square root of minus 1...

The 'circle number' pi has fascinated people for thousands of...

Professor Simon Wessely, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London This...