Early Mathematics Day: Exploring Ancient Greek and Roman Numeracy An examination of the role of numeracy within ancient civilisations...
Bach’s Invention: The Divine Trickery of J.S. Bach Behind the sublime precision and expressive power of Bach’s music...
The Mathematical Life of Sir Christopher Wren Christopher Wren, who died 300 years ago this year, is...
Faggot’s Fretful Fiasco: The Unsung Geometry of Musical Scales A lecture beginning with the question of why the frets...
Mathematical Journeys into Fictional Worlds Literary satire has long used mathematical concepts to reinforce its points.
Florence Nightingale and her Crimean War Statistics: Lessons for hospital safety, public administration and nursing Professor McDonald will discusses the history and the myth surrounding...
Christopher Wren & Oliver Cromwell: The 1657 Appointment of Wren as Gresham Professor of Astronomy Of all the august and admirable Gresham Professors, Christopher Wren...
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.