Living in London, I use buses a lot.  Each day I catch a 180 or 199, ignoring the 188, 286 and others whcih don't take me home.  I have ...

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...