The composer Howard Skempton once said to me that there are three kinds of piano music: music to be read, music to be played, and music to b...

One of my interests is mathematicians in fiction - fictitious mathematicians tell us something about how the extra-mathematical world ...

I wrote about mathematics and tennis at this time of year four years ago: specifically on the decisions about reviews and about the curious...

Today being Father's Day, I thought I would write about a piece of mathematics my father showed me many years ago. I have been reading...

I wrote a post some time ago about  Michael Suk-Young Chwe's book  Jane Austen, Game Theorist , which argues that Austen's works ar...

As always, the annual MathsJam conference was full of wonderful things, and if I ever find time to post on this shamefully neglected blog...

I was very sorry to hear of the death last week of the historian Lisa Jardine.  Although it wasn't her main focus, she made a big contri...