Meet the Council: Tom Briggs
At our Christmas 2025 AGM, we elected Tom Briggs as our newest ordinary council member. This blog introduces Tom, his interests and his journey into the history of mathematics! Who […]
Neumann Prize 2025 Annoucement
The BSHM is delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 Neumann Prize, Karl Sigmund’s The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy. The quality of the submissions for the […]
A day in the life at the Royal Observatory Greenwich: Behind the scenes with the Airy Family
(Editor’s note: the reader must excuse (or enjoy) a brief foray into the history of astronomy, this partially grew out of work presented at the BSHM Research in Progress in […]
Sum Stories: Equations and their Origins
Professor Robin Wilson (one of the BSHM HiMEd lecturers), with the Oxford University Mathematical Institute, has created a series of short films (10-20 minutes) for schools, each featuring one of the equations from his recently published OUP book ‘Sum Stories: equations and their origins’.
New Newton scholarship
Royal Society Publishing has recently published a theme issue of Philosophical Transactions A: Newton, Principia, Newton Geneva Edition (17th–19th) and modern Newtonian mechanics: heritage, past & present
Counting on Mars: Francis Galton and the Universal Language of Mathematics
In the late 19th century, as telescopes peered into the mysterious red glow of Mars, a peculiar idea captured the imagination of scientists and the public alike: could we communicate […]