Maths History
@mathshistory
History of maths (math to some) tweets from the British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM). Mainly tweeted by @snezanalawrence
Karl Menger (1902-1985) is definitely one of my new favourite mathematicians. See what you can do (and other teenagers) with his fractal cube, aka Menger sponge quantamagazine.org/teen-mathemati…
📐 It’s #MathsWeekEngland 2025! The theme, “Connection or Coincidence?”, has us revisiting Prof @AlainGoriely’s mind-bending lecture “The Deceived Brain: Coding and Illusion.” Can maths explain why our eyes trick us? 👀 👉 gres.hm/coding-illusion @OxUniMaths #Maths #STEM
Free resources for teachers on the history of mathematics this week! #MathsWeekEngland #NCETM #mathsweek #maths
Free teaching worksheets on the Fibonacci sequence, golden number, & the golden ratio for @maths_week. Download them plus a free chapter on Fibonacci from A Little History of Mathematics by @snezanalawrence here: yalebooks.co.uk/a-little-histo… #MWE25 #MathsWeek #UKMathsChat #teammaths
Free teaching worksheets on the Fibonacci sequence, golden number, & the golden ratio for @maths_week. Download them plus a free chapter on Fibonacci from A Little History of Mathematics by @snezanalawrence here: yalebooks.co.uk/a-little-histo… #MWE25 #MathsWeek #UKMathsChat #teammaths
For #MWE25 we’ve created free teaching worksheets on the Fibonacci sequence, golden number, & the golden ratio. Download them plus a free chapter on Fibonacci from A Little History of Mathematics by @snezanalawrence: yalebooks.co.uk/a-little-histo… #UKMathsChat #MathsToday #teamaths
Some free resources for learning mathematics, just in time for the forthcoming Maths Week England yalebooks.co.uk/a-little-histo…
Tributes at Bryn Mawr College to the brilliant mathematician Emmy Noether, who spent her final years there. Noether revolutionized the methods of modern physics by identifying continuous symmetry groups with conservation laws. The third image is her grave marker. #Mathematics
Commemorating those who have perished in the Great War today - here is a lecture by Professor David Aubin, delivered in 2018 on mathematicians and scientists who were among those we remember today: youtu.be/-pIsVHkWVOI?si…
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Stories about Mathematicians Killed in World War I
Scipione del Ferro DOTD in 1526. "Just after the turn of the sixteenth century, Luca Pacioli (1445-1517) was visited by a mathematician from Bologna, Scipione Ferro (1465–1526), a lecturer in arithmetic and geometry. He wanted to discuss a way he had found to solve cubic…
Hooray! History of mathematics book "A Little History of Mathematics" makes it to the "Smart Book of the Month"
Your amazing book was just featured as the Smart Book of the Month, @snezanalawrence ! youtube.com/shorts/SmjkVL3…
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Smart Book of the Month: Little History of Mathematics
Two of the books by BSHM old members, @maxmazzotti & @snezanalawrence in a bookshop in Oakland, California 😍
Mathematics history and education - there's a time and a place to talk about this! The next big such an event will take place in Aveiro, Portugal in July 2026. To register and submit a paper proposal (until 31st Oct) see esu10.sciencesconf.org
The HPM Satellite ICMI Conference Proceedings are now out and can be seen here (first on the list) hpm.sites.uu.nl/previous-meeti…
Japanese translation already done and in print! @JAPANinUK @mathshistory Very pleased with the production although I would need someone to help me read this book of mine
Next week is a birthday of Karl Menger (1902-1985), 5th October. This is a thread about something he thought about and wrote as the rise of National Socialists was worrying him and his many friends. He published this as a little book in Vienna in 1934, under the title "Morality,…
The European Summer University on the History and Epistemology in Mathematics Education (ESU-10) will take place in Aveiro in July 2026. More information here: esu10.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en In particular, please note that the deadline for submitting proposals is 31 October 2025.…
a thread on more recent history of symmetry
Ok a little bit about symmetry: it is one of the oldest concepts in mathematics and appears in many cultures around the globe and in all historical periods. Here's one pictorial representation, not such an old image, but showing how symmetry visits arts comfortably from its…
📢 Free tickets! Prof Caroline Ehrhardt asks: How does mathematics last? Discover how maths heritage is shaped by people, libraries & politics with particular reference to 19th-century France in our Annual BSHM Gresham Lecture 🎟 gres.hm/heritage-maths #Maths @mathshistory
Mikhail Gromov, the giant of geometry. First time we met when I accidentally ran into him in the Parisian underground sixteen years ago. He somehow knew about my existence and agreed to meet the following day, dedicating to me 3 hours. Today, he came to my talk in Cambridge.
So this came in the post the other day - and has a little article about me on the last page! Thanks @YoaYeo for the lovely interview, @IMAmaths for getting it all done so nicely, and last but definitely not least @London_W4 for a very nice photograph!
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