Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...
Early Mathematics Day: The Archimedes Codex A lecture on the Archimedes Palimpsest, delivered by Professor Reviel...
100 Essential Things You Didn't Know About Maths and the Arts We apply mathematics to some of the arts: identify Dali's...
Early Mathematics Day: Exploring Ancient Greek and Roman Numeracy An examination of the role of numeracy within ancient civilisations...
Solving the Ancient Camel Puzzle: A 3,500-Year-Old Mathematical Trick A sheikh's will leaves behind 17 camels to be divided...
The Mathematical Life of Sir Christopher Wren Christopher Wren, who died 300 years ago this year, is...
Mathematical Journeys into Fictional Worlds Literary satire has long used mathematical concepts to reinforce its points.
Engineering: Archimedes of Syracuse In the 3rd century BCE, the Sicilian polymath Archimedes significantly advanced human understanding of mathematics, geometry and astronomy.
Mathematical Structure in Fiction Mathematical concepts have often been used to create new structural forms in fiction, as in the works of Raymond Queneau and Jorge Luis Borges.