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The Gordon Riots of 1780: London in Flames, a Nation in Ruins

In June 1780 the most destructive urban riots in English...

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

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

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

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

Since the seventeenth century, members of the Religious Society of...

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

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

An exploration of the remarkable consequences of using Boltzmann's 1870s...

We are familiar with the formula for solving a quadratic...