Mathematics and the Medici: Instruments from Late Renaissance Florence and a British Connection The 16th-century instruments in the Museum of the History of...
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...
Bach’s Invention: The Divine Trickery of J.S. Bach Behind the sublime precision and expressive power of Bach’s music...
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.
The Mathematics of Evolutionary Biology - Implications for Ethics, Teleology and 'Natural Theology' THE ANNUAL BOYLE LECTURE The Boyle lectures address topics which...
Time for a Change: Introducing irreversible time in economics An exploration of the remarkable consequences of using Boltzmann's 1870s...
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.
Computers and the Future What can we learn from the first seven decades of our cyber enabled world that will help us to design the best future for ourselves and our children?