Mathematics – Heritage – Education
“This piece explores how we can bridge the gap between research and the classroom, using history to move past a fixed body of rules and reposition mathematics as a deeply collaborative, creative human endeavor.”
Tags: article, IMA, mathematics, Mathematics Today, MathsInMuseums, museums, writing
A paper published by the British Journal for the History of Mathematics detailing a research project in which Jason Yip and I planned and taught a half-term’s worth of maths lessons to two classes at a Secondary School in Milton Keynes. These lessons followed the school’s usual Scheme of Work, but Jason and I included History of Maths content in every lesson.
Tags: BJHM, education, history, mathematics, research, writing
“This article is an open invitation to look at history through a completely different lens, guiding readers to discover how deeply mathematical thinking is woven into historical collections and architecture.”
Tags: article, history, mathematics, Mathematics Today, MathsInMuseums, museums, writing
“… a guest post from museum educator and mathematician Tom Briggs, about his session at last August’s Talking Maths in Public conference.”
Tags: mathematics, MathsComm, museums, writing
I am very pleased, not to mention flabbergasted, to announce that The Mathematicians’ Library won both categories: it was picked from the shortlist as the editors’ favourite, and received just shy of 50% of the Readers’ Choice votes with 236 out of 475 choosing it as their prime pick of 2025.
“… if you get the chance to flick through a copy in a library or bookshop you will find your attention constantly being captured by a piece of mathematical history or a page from a book that you have heard of but never seen before”
– Chalkdust Editors
Tags: book, history, mathematics, MathsComm, writing
Next time you’re in a museum, gallery, library, or archive, keep an eye open for these mathematical themes!
Tags: blogpost, galleries, libraries, mathematics, MathsComm, museums, National Numeracy, online, writing
Far from an academic “maths book”, it is a book about maths; about the role that this most ancient of human endeavours has played in the development of humanity, and where its achievements have prompted – and been prompted by – growth in disciplines that many people in the modern world see as entirely separate.
Tags: books, history, mathematics, MathsComm, publications, research, writing
I was briefed to write a page on the subject of maths in museums, and how the objects and artworks they hold relate to our understanding of maths. That’s right up my street!
Tags: Art Quarterly, MathsComm, MathsInMuseums, museums, writing
“You might be forgiven for wondering whether anything worthwhile could have happened over the following nine years that prompted Nicholas Mee to consider updating a book that did such a good job of covering the previous thirteen-point-seven billion, but here I am reviewing Gravity’s Second Edition.”
– Excerpt from my review