I' am one of these annoying people who loves self-reference.  I had a sign saying "Why can't anyone these days do anything prop...

I have always underestimated the interest value of the Tower of Hanoi problem.  If you don;t remember the puzzle, there are three positions ...

Another New Year, another resolution to write more blog posts.  We'll see. A mathematician delivering the Royal Institution Christmas ...

So in ten days time the University is hosting Greenwich Maths Time, the 2019 IMA Festival of Mathematics and its Applications.  The Festival...

The Big Internet MathOff is now taking place.  Sixteen mathematicians are competing in a knock-out tournament to present the most interesti...

I was lucky enough to attend a meeting organised by the British Society for the History of Mathematics  on "The History of Cryptography...

A couple of weeks ago, I got onto my morning bus, climbed the stairs, holding on as the bus lurched forward, and sat down, to hear for the f...