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...
Mathematical Journeys into Fictional Worlds Literary satire has long used mathematical concepts to reinforce its points.
The Journey from Black-Hole Singularities to a Cyclic Cosmology Sir Roger Penrose gives the annual Sir Thomas Gresham lecture on The Journey from Black-Hole Singularities to a Cyclic Cosmology.
The Mathematics of Evolutionary Biology - Implications for Ethics, Teleology and 'Natural Theology' THE ANNUAL BOYLE LECTURE The Boyle lectures address topics which...
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.
Doing Business in Interstellar Space Imagine that interstellar trade is possible at speeds close to...