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Early Mathematics Day: The Archimedes Codex

A lecture on the Archimedes Palimpsest, delivered by Professor Reviel...

James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was one of the most important...

Unplugging computers

How Does Mathematics Last? Heritage and Heritage-making in Mathematics

How is mathematical knowledge recorded and preserved across generations? Contrary...

The importance of being peripheral

The maths of surfaces and boundaries. Queen Dido's problem. The...

Peter Guthrie Tait: A Knot's Tale

Peter Guthrie Tait (1831 - 1901) was significantly less famous...

Newton

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

Maths with Pictures

How pictures have been used in mathematics.  The use of...

Fourier's Series

Joseph Fourier was interested in the mathematical study of the...

Turing and von Neumann

Alan Turing (1912-1954) and John von Neumann (1903-1957) had an...