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Hardy, Littlewood, Cartwright and Ramanujan

The collaboration between G.H. Hardy (1877-1947) and J.E. Littlewood (1885-1977)...

Free Speech and the Study of History

A growing number of countries have so-called memory laws, ranging...

The Study of Money May Be The Root Of Much Madness - The Fragile Foundations Underneath Economics

Alderman Professor Mainelli introduces the 2015 Long Finance Spring Conference.

Möbius and his Band

Many people have heard of the Möbius band, a one-sided...

Topics in the History of Financial Mathematics: The Influence of Amatino Manucci and Luca Pacioli

This is the first part of a study day. It...

Portraits of Queen Elizabeth II: The Artists’ Challenges

Scores of painters and photographers over the last seventy years...

Does society risk my life through safety? The perils of too much risk-aversion

We would all like a riskless life, right? The Precautionary...

Coming to Terms with Modern Times: English architecture in the post-war era

The Second World War intensified and magnified debates that had...

More complex than Graunt could imagine: Theoretical and practical thoughts about tempo effects in the conventional period life table

Star Dust

Interstellar space is not truly a vacuum devoid of matter...