Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...
Who invented the calculus? - and other 17th century topics The development of the calculus brought together two seemingly unrelated...
Early Mathematics Day: Solving the mystery of the World's First Computer In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course...
Let’s Decolonise the History of Mathematical Proofs! Joint lectures with the British Society for the History of...
Thomas Hirst (1887): Ah, why was Newton ever born? Thomas Hirst (1830-1892) recounts the period of mathematical history through...
Edmond Halley (1727): On the Shoulders of Giants Edmond Halley presents a lecture about his friend, Sir Isaac...