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Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times

Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...

The Maths of Coins and Currencies

People have used money – and made counterfeits - for...

Let’s Decolonise the History of Mathematical Proofs!

Joint lectures with the British Society for the History of...

Sir Thomas Gresham and the New Learning

Sir Thomas Gresham founded his College in 1597 in order...

Financial Markets After The Crisis - More Europe or Less?

The UK plays a pivotal role in Europe's financial markets...

Medicine in London, 1600 to 1900 - Dr William Harvey and the seventeenth-century medical revolution

Mathematics, Measurement and Money

THE JOINT LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY/ GRESHAM COLLEGE ANNUAL LECTURE Throughout...

Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders is remembered as one of Britain’s greatest navigator-explorers...

Richard Hakluyt: London’s role in navigation and history

Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) is famous for his Principal Navigations, intended...

Topics in the History of Financial Mathematics: Mathematics and Foreign Exchange

This is the third part of a study day. It...