(To comment on my recent Gresham College lecture  please go to this post .) Yesterday the University of Greenwich hosted the second U...

(To comment on my recent Gresham College lecture please go to this post .) A newspaper feature today ( "My funny Valentine: Do opposi...

On Monday February 4th, I gave the first of a series of three free public lectures on computng and mathematics at Gresham College , Barnards...

Earlier this week a popular-science Facebook page posted a letter apparently from a schoolteacher to a pupil's parent complaining about...

I have just read Benjamin Wardhaugh's fascinating book Poor Robin's Prophecies: A curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of G...

When I was a teenager I was a keen chess player, and when I discovered the joys of programming a computer I was naturally interested in how ...

A reassuring article by Tom Holland in Saturday's Guardian  discusses the supposed imminent end of the world predicted by Mayan calendar...