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Mathematical Puzzles and Paradoxes

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

This lecture explores various ideas of tuning and temperament from...

Some mathematics of straight lines. Why are electricity pylons made...

The central figure of 19th-century computing was Charles Babbage (1791-1871)...

Most people know the story of Newton and the apple...

Euler, ‘the Mozart of mathematics’, was probably the most prolific...

It is often said that mathematics and music go together...

In the late 19th-century, astronomical research could be practical, using...

THE JOINT LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY/ GRESHAM COLLEGE ANNUAL LECTURE Throughout...

How many colours are needed to colour a map? What...