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Brook the broker

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
08 October 2025
5 mins

Louisiane Ferlier's cataloguing of a volume of Brook Taylor correspondence at ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ sheds light on the Newton-Leibniz 'calculus controversy'.

Book dust

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
23 January 2025
5 mins

Louisiane Ferlier looks at the three books donated to ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ Library by mathematician Augustus De Morgan, all with intriguing inscriptions and insertions.

Memorialising George Boole

history of science
Virginia Mills
21 August 2023
5 mins

Royal Society Archivist Virginia Mills and Malcolm Smith of Lincoln’s Heslam Trust reveal the story behind a bronze figure of George Boole FRS, cast especially for the Society.

Haunting the shelves

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
05 September 2022
4 mins

How did the designer of a theatrical device to project ‘ghosts’ on the Victorian stage come to donate a significant collection of books to ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ Library? Louisiane Ferlier investigates...

A bit of binary

history of science
Anne McLaughlin
23 August 2022
5 mins

Anne McLaughlin finds some mathematical surprises in ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ's oldest manuscript, dating back to around 1200 and donated by a controversial Shakespearian scholar.

Ruskin's perspectives

history of science
Sandra Kemp
25 July 2022
5 mins

A new exhibition shows how mathematics was central to the work of the artist, writer and critic John Ruskin, as curator Professor Sandra Kemp explains.

Meeting my heroes

history of science
Nira Chamberlain
11 October 2021
5 mins

Mathematician Nira Chamberlain talks about some of the inspirational figures he encountered when chairing the 'Black Heroes of Mathematics' conference.

Counting bones

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
09 August 2021
4 mins

Louisiane Ferlier explains how the work of John Napier (1550-1617) exerted a strong influence on the mathematicians of the early Royal Society.

Revisiting Ramanujan

history of science
Ellen Embleton
01 October 2018
4 mins

A celebration of the life and work of Srinivasa Ramanujan, on the centenary of his election to the Fellowship of ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ.

Mathematical treasures

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
28 May 2018
3 mins

Louisiane Ferlier gives an overview of the major mathematical works at the core of ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ's collections, with key names including Euclid, Newton, Bayes and Boole.