Saturday's Guardian newspaper feature about Julian Assange contained an amusing quote from a friend from his university days (Assange st...

I have been meaning to write something in response to two recent blog posts on history of mathematics and anecdote. Dennis Des Chene (aka ...

I have always been drawn towards pure, rather than applied, mathematics.  As a student I had no feel for mechanics: I could solve the ...

This post is late because I spent an exciting but exhausting weekend in Sheffield, first at the CETL-MSOR conference on mathematics teaching...

Now that a fascinating fortnight at Wimbledon has finished, it's perhaps appropriate to consider the contributions that the mathematics ...

Last week was exceptionally busy, but one highlight was the opportunity to hear two of today's greatest mathematicians, Sir Timothy Gowe...

Since I am taking part in a Turing-related Lates evening at the Science Museum on Wednesday 27 June, in which my contribution will look at ...