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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.

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News & Events

Neumann Prize 2025 Annoucement

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...

Sum Stories: Equations and their Origins

Professor Robin Wilson (one of the BSHM HiMEd lecturers), with the Oxford University Mathematical Institute, has created a series of short films (10-20 minutes) for schools, each featuring one of the...

New Newton scholarship

Royal Society Publishing has recently published a theme issue of Philosophical Transactions A: Newton, Principia, Newton Geneva Edition (17th–19th) and modern Newtonian mechanics: heritage, past &...