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 exists:
- to promote and encourage research in the history of mathematics and the dissemination of the results of such research;
- to promote and develop for the public benefit, awareness, knowledge, study and teaching of the history of mathematics;
- to promote the use of the history of mathematics at all levels in mathematics education in order to enhance the teaching of mathematics for the public benefit.
Upcoming Events
Sat 18 February 2017
The Old Museum Building, 7 College Square North, Belfast BT1 6AR
Announcements
From our Twitter feed
December 25
Wilhelm Kutta (1867-1944), of the Runge-Kutta method for numerical solution of differential equations, died 25 Dec https://t.co/HgpHp3YHlV
December 24
Charles Hermite (1822-1901) published the first proof that e is a transcendental number, born 24 Dec https://t.co/75KWCIzykS
December 23
Pierre Varignon (1654-1722) worked on graphical statics and mechanics, died 23 Dec https://t.co/GygMhfKduA
December 22
Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920), "one of India's greatest mathematical geniuses", born 22 Dec https://t.co/lNPS0peKUS
December 21
Paul Albert Gordan (1837-1912) gave simplified proofs of the transcendence of e and pi, died 21 Dec https://t.co/ecNlyU5igT