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 2025 prize made selecting a final shortlist of four exceptionally difficult, and choosing the winner even more so. As such, the prize panel (Chris Budd (University of Bath), Andrew Burbanks (University of Portsmouth), Deborah Kent (University of St. Andrews), Ciarán Mac an Bhaird (Chair, Maynooth University) highly commended four other books: Martin Beech’s Mind the Gap: The Labyrinthine Story of Planetary Orbits, Mathematics, and the Titius-Bode Rule, Sarah Hart’s Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature, and Benjamin Wardhaugh’s Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers.
To learn more about the winning entry and the competition, see the Prizes webpage.
