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Planes and pacifism: Activities and attitudes of British mathematicians during WWI

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

4000 years of numbers

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

4000 Years of Algebra

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

4000 Years of Geometry

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

Multiplying and dividing whole numbers: why it is more difficult than you might think

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

Euler - 300th anniversary lecture

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

The story of e

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

The story of i

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

The Story of Pi

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

A simple solution to global imbalance that is easy to implement and is unlikely to make matters worse