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
Wed 18 October 2023
Gresham College - Barnard's Inn Hall & Online
From our Twitter feed
May 31
George Green (1793-1841) known for Green's function and Greeen's theorems in potential theory, died 31 May https://t.co/TVaqHWxH2W
May 30
Antoni Zygmund (1900-1992) worked in harmonic analysis & Fourier analysis & its application to PDEs, died 30 May https://t.co/JLRvi7PI0o
May 29
Frans van Schooten (1615-1660) contributed to the spread of Cartesian geometry, died 29 May https://t.co/iYUM7pzIft
May 28
Hans Zassenhaus (1912-1991) worked on group theory and Lie algebras, born 28 May https://t.co/eEulTtoqy7
May 27
Arthur Schonflies (1853-1928) worked on set theory & crystallography, classified the 230 space groups, died 27 May https://t.co/zhy8C51x8m