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Symmetry and the Monster

On 30 May 1832 a young Frenchman named Évariste Galois...

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

In the 8th century Alcuin of York described the wolf...

Diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s are devastating neurological conditions...

The development of the calculus brought together two seemingly unrelated...

Thomas Hirst (1830-1892) recounts the period of mathematical history through...

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

Why were video recorders so difficult to use? Is there...

We all have our problems! Mathematicians can be divided into...

With the invention of printing, mathematical writings became widely available...