Let’s Decolonise the History of Mathematical Proofs! Joint lectures with the British Society for the History of...
Mathematics in War and Peace - Flying Mathematicians As a commemoration of the end of the First World War, the event will focus on the theme of mathematics in war and peacetime.
Mathematics in War and Peace - Stories about Mathematicians Killed in WW1 As a commemoration of the end of the First World War, the event will focus on the theme of mathematics in war and peacetime.
Mathematics in War and Peace - Euler's Work on Ballistics As a commemoration of the end of the First World War, the event will focus on the theme of mathematics in war and peacetime.
Mathematics and the Medici: Instruments from Late Renaissance Florence and a British Connection The 16th-century instruments in the Museum of the History of...
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...
Public Key Cryptography: Secrecy in Public For centuries massive intellectual effort has gone into methods of...
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...