I have been reading the autobiography of one of my heroes - the great popular mathematics writer, Martin Gardner, who along with my school m...

Having recently put up here a couple of posts about mistakes, I feel I should perhaps say why I find (some) mistakes fascinating. As y...

The first mathematics book written in English was the snappily-titled, anonymous  An introduction for to lerne to recken with the pen, or wi...

Today I had the privilege of taking part in an excellent " Mathematics in Action " day at which around 700 school students heard a...

One of the happy outcomes from the recent MathsJam conference (See my previous post) was that I was able to get my copies of two recent math...

I thought I would do a blog post on the MathsJam weekend conference which I have just attended. This was two days of short (five-minute max...

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...