18 October 2018Emma Bell explains why the Renaissance mathematician Gerolamo Cardano styled himself as the "man of discoveries".
12 March 2018In this edition of the series, we instead learn about 'routes' and Edsger Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm.
- 18 October 2017
Blaise Pascal was driven to begin the mechanisation of mathematics by his father's struggles with an accounts book in 17th century France.
- 6 March 2017
Mary Somerville fights against social mores to become one of the leading mathematicians of her time.
3 October 2016Pythagoras gave us so much more than a² + b² = c²
- 13 March 2016
More than spirals and rabbits, Fibonacci gave us something much more fundamental.
- 6 October 2015
The story of how we got the equals sign
