The Troubled Brain: Ageing and Dementia Diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s are devastating neurological conditions...
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...
The Mathematical Life of Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale is the founder of modern nursing and a...
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.
The World of Isaac Newton This illustrated lecture will cover Newton's life and his mathematical and scientific labours in the context of 17th-century England.
The Secret Mathematicians From composers to painters, writers to choreographers, the mathematician’s palette...