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  • BSHM 2025 AGM

    The relevant documents for the 2025 AGM can be viewed below. AGM 2025 Council Candidate Biographies.docx AGM_Agenda_06_Dec_25.docx AGM_Minutes_06_Dec_25.docx BSHM Report and Accounts 2024.pdf

  • Front cover of book Mathematical Impossibility by Jesper Lutzen

    Jesper Lützen: A History of Mathematical Impossibility

    The Open University Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

    Professor Jesper Lützen (University of Copenhagen) will deliver a seminar at The Open University on A History of Mathematical Impossibility, focusing especially on Arrow's Impossibility Theorem (all ranked-choice voting procedures have spoilers). If you would like to attend, either in-person or via Microsoft Teams, then please contact Dr Brigitte Stenhouse no later than February 25th […]

  • SIGMA, Upside-Down Cuneiform: The Depiction of Babylonian Mathematics in Games

    Zoom (Online)

    The SIGMA project based at the University of Edinburgh are hosting the forthcoming seminar by Dr Erica Meszaros. Joining instructions are below. Upside-Down Cuneiform: The Depiction of Babylonian Mathematics in Games Babylonian mathematics may seem like an esoteric topic; yet if you’re a gamer, chances are you’ve run into the language at some point. From […]

  • ICHM: Celebration of honours recently awarded to historians of mathematics

    Mathematical Institute, Oxford Andrew Wiles Building, United Kingdom

    The International Commission on the History of Mathematics are holding a meeting to celebrate honours recently awarded to historians of mathematics. The event will take place at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford (full details at the bottom of the page). Registration for this event is now closed.  (This event is followed by the annual Research in […]

  • Queen's College, Oxford quad (courtyard) in the sunshine

    Research In Progress

    The Queen's College Oxford The Queen's College, Oxford, OX1 4AW, United Kingdom

    The Queen's College, Oxford (full details below). Our annual meeting which provides an opportunity for research students in any area of the history of mathematics to present their work to a friendly and supportive audience. Alongside the student speakers there will be a selection of posters on display throughout the day. The meeting will be […]

  • Shakespeare By Numbers

    The London Interdisciplinary School 20-30 Whitechapel Road

    Shakespeare scholar Darren Freebury-Jones and mathematician Rob Eastaway will explore the fascinating connections between Shakespeare, numbers and Elizabethan history. In this illustrated joint talk followed by moderated discussion and questions, Shakespeare scholar Darren Freebury-Jones and maths author Rob Eastaway explore Shakespeare from a fresh angle – through numbers. They reveal new insights into the social, cultural, […]

  • Kirk Public Lecture: The Ocean of Numbers, How India Shaped the Way We Calculate

    Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    The upcoming Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellow Public Lecture by Professor Clemency Montelle, titled "The Ocean of Numbers: How India shaped the way we calculate", will be on Thursday 12 March 2026 at 4 p.m. in Seminar Room 1 at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge. The talk will also be streamed online via the INI website: Kirk […]

  • Primes and Resonance: Sophie Germain’s 250th Birthday

    An event organised by the University of Oxford and the ICMS, hosted at The Royal Institution, London. Sophie Germain is remembered for her major contributions to mathematics, ranging from advances in number theory (related to Fermat’s Last Theorem) to foundational results on vibrating plates. She was the first woman to win a major competitive research […]