Faggot’s Fretful Fiasco: The Unsung Geometry of Musical Scales A lecture beginning with the question of why the frets...
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.
Public Key Cryptography: Secrecy in Public For centuries massive intellectual effort has gone into methods of...
Alan Turing: The Founder of Computer Science Professor Jonathan Bowen reflects on the brilliant work and tragic...
The Big Brain: Size and Intelligence For centuries, scientists have tried to identify what is special...
Victorian Era Astronomy: On Land and in the Skies In the late 19th-century, astronomical research could be practical, using...
Hanna Neumann: A Mathematician in Difficult Times THE 2015 BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS /...
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.