Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...
The Mathematics of Musical Composition Pattern and structure are essential to music, from the permutations in a Bach fugue, to the structure of a round.
100 Essential Things You Didn't Know About Maths and the Arts We apply mathematics to some of the arts: identify Dali's...
The Mathematical Life of Sir Christopher Wren Christopher Wren, who died 300 years ago this year, is...
Planes and pacifism: Activities and attitudes of British mathematicians during WWI The First World War was the first time that war...
Mathematical Journeys into Fictional Worlds Literary satire has long used mathematical concepts to reinforce its points.
Alan Turing: The Founder of Computer Science Professor Jonathan Bowen reflects on the brilliant work and tragic...
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.
The Grand Narrative of the History of Computing A discussion of the core concepts of modern computing and...
The Secret Mathematicians From composers to painters, writers to choreographers, the mathematician’s palette...