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Babbage and Lovelace

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

Computer systems use mathematics to fly aircraft, carry out complex...

Combinatorial mathematics is concerned with selecting, arranging and counting objects...

How can Usain Bolt improve his world 100 metres sprint...

People have used money – and made counterfeits - for...

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

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

Throwing things, and jumping up and down or along, lies...

What is the mathematical significance of certain prehistoric objects that...

250 years ago Daniel Bernoulli used mathematics and statistics to...