Welcome to the British Society for the History of Mathematics
Welcome to the British Society for the History of Mathematics
The British Society for the History of Mathematics:
- promotes and encourages research into the history of mathematics and the dissemination of the results of that research;
- develops awareness of the history of mathematics for the public benefit; and
- supports teachers and lecturers at all levels of mathematics education to incorporate the history of mathematics into their teaching, enriching their students' experience.
Upcoming Events
Fri 9 September 2022 to Sat 10 September 2022
University of Durham
Announcements & Blogs
Announcement
Post date: Tue 12 July 2022 - 19.40
From our Twitter feed
August 16
Public Lecture: Travis Williams (Rhode Island), Tunstall’s Eloquent Arithmetic: Renaissance Mathematics as Pleasure… https://t.co/IUcfePneEV
August 16
Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705) worked on calculus, probability, and many other areas of mathematics, died 16 Aug https://t.co/nVj2NZAIEr
August 15
Edward Waring (1736-1798) worked on decomposing numbers into sums of powers & sums of primes, died 15 Aug https://t.co/4fCSWyuevl
August 14
Giovanni Benedetti (1530-1590) anticipated some of Galileo's work on free fall, born 14 Aug https://t.co/9oDCJ1FmCN
August 13
Erasmus Bartholin (1625-1698) wrote on geometry and discovered double refraction, born 13 Aug https://t.co/KQ1GfGORX8