Maths in the Victorian Classroom
What was it like to learn maths at school in the Victorian period? We visited the British Schools Museum in Hitchin to find out.
From a Random World to a Rational Universe
In the time before the mathematical idea of randomness was discovered, people thought that everything that happened was part of the will of supernatural beings. So have things changed?
The History of Negative Numbers
This article -useful for teachers and learners - gives a short account of the history of negative numbers.
A Brief History of Time Measurement
The Four Colour Theorem
The Development of Algebra - 1
The Development of Algebra - 2
The History of Trigonometry- Part 1
History of Trigonometry - Part 2
The second of three articles on the History of Trigonometry.
Ancient Astronomical Terms
History of Trigonometry - Part 3
The Dangerous Ratio
This article for pupils and teachers looks at a number that even the great mathematician, Pythagoras, found terrifying.
Women in Maths
Randomness and Brownian Motion
In Classical times the Pythagorean philosophers believed that all things were made up from a specific number of tiny indivisible particles called ‘monads’. Each object contained a different number of particles, and so they believed that ‘everything was number’.