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 […]
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