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Sum Stories: Equations and their Origins

How long is the coastline of Britain? What is a...

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Who invented Cryptography?

An excerpt taken from a lecture by Professor Robin Wilson...

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Mathematical Puzzles and Paradoxes

Many puzzles have a long history, such as water pouring...

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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...

Fresco depicting Dante's Inferno, Demonic figure with wings stands over tormented souls in a hellish scene

The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani

In partnership with the London Mathematical Society. The first female...

Maryam Mirzakhani copyright: Maryeraud9, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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

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

Keep taking the tablets

Many thousands of surviving mathematical clay tablets provide much information...

Logarithms: Mobile Phones, Modelling & Statistics?

Logarithms were perhaps once thought of as just an old-fashioned...

How Mathematical Proofs Are Like Recipes

Joint lectures with the British Society for the History of...

butter, two eggs, a whisk, milk and flour

The Deceived Brain: Coding and Illusion

We perceive the world through the processing of information given...

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