Isaac Newton: Mathematical Giant - Professor Raymond Flood Isaac Newton's work on celestial mechanics laid the foundation for...
Butterflies, Chaos and Fractals In 1972 the meteorologist, Edward Lorenz, delivered a lecture with...
From Henry Briggs to Modern Calculators Henry Briggs, the first Gresham Professor of Geometry, developed what...
Four Centuries of Logarithms The first Gresham Professor of Geometry was Henry Briggs, co-discoverer...
The Mathematical Life of Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale is the founder of modern nursing and a...
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.
Giant Waves on the Open Sea: Mariners’ tall tales or alarming fact? Cinemagoers will be familiar with the thrill of giant waves...