Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...
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Public Key Cryptography: Secrecy in Public For centuries massive intellectual effort has gone into methods of...
How Mathematical Proofs Are Like Recipes Joint lectures with the British Society for the History of...
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Calendar Curiosities for 29 February Did Archbishop Whitgift really die on 29th February 1603? Why...