Congratulations to Hannah Fry for this award - can’t think of anyone more deserving. She’s a fabulous, inspirational communicator. Brava!

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On Sat 28 Sept, New Scientist are hosting an amazing event that unlocks the secrets hidden within the language of mathematics. It features Helen Wilson Kevin Buzzard Sarah Hart @alaingoriely Peter Rowlett and Beth Woodhams (she/her). Further details ⤵️ newscientist.com/science-events…

Excited for this! Five amazing speakers (plus me) on the maths behind EVERYTHING.

Here’s a new poem called ‘To Be Pacific’.

In-person tickets open: Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times Book via: gres.hm/bshm-25 Rob Eastaway delivers our Annual BSHM Gresham College Lecture Maths History on the remarkable mentions of #maths in the Bard's plays #shakespeare

I am absolutely thrilled to have been invited to give this year's Gresham College history of maths lecture on 9th October, at 6pm. And it's FREE, at a lovely historic venue in Holborn. Sign up now! bshm.ac.uk/events/2024-gr…

Exciting times Maths History. HiMEd Lecturers are available for talks\events shorturl.at/ksgtM & we soon celebrate the 2024 schools shorturl.at/0AJV7 & undergrad shorturl.at/kudYT winners @ the Gresham Lecture shorturl.at/YsrFd Sarah Hart IMA

Last chance to book for ‘Recreational Mathematics and its History’ which I’m speaking at in London on Saturday. In person and online available! Programme and registration: bshm.ac.uk/events/recreat…

I’m speaking at Nerd Nite THIS WEDNESDAY! Be there and be square! designmynight.com/london/whats-o…

The theme of this year's National Poetry Day is "Counting". Tomorrow, Sarah Hart and I are doing a free live workshop with @englishAssoc about the links between poetry and maths. It'll be fun. englishassociation.ac.uk/let-me-count-t…

Come along! London Mathematical Society Maths History The Mathematical Association

Este debe ser uno de los libros más "Nerd" que he leído en años y es una maravilla, si te gusta la literatura y las ciencias duras en especial las matemáticas este libro es para ti, muchas gracias a Sarah Hart por sus recomendaciones de Libros.

Mathematics is an art, a language, and a science. It’s not about hard sums, any more than literature is about spelling long words. My article in New Scientist this week.

We're celebrating National Poetry Day with our workshop on connecting maths and poetry: check out the recording of the fascinating conversation between Rob Eastaway and Sarah Hart here: englishassociation.ac.uk/let-me-count-t… PLUS top tips for teachers to use in the classroom!

Fear of maths has been around for at least a century. Here are some ways to overcome it, says Sarah Hart, professor emerita of mathematics at Birkbeck, University of London. newscientist.com/article/mg2633…

Today at 6pm: Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times Watch live via: gres.hm/bshm-25 Rob Eastaway on the surprising ways Shakespeare could be as creative with numbers as he was with words. #shakespeare #maths #mathshistory

'The people who have written it are obviously completely ignorant.’ Kemi Badenoch has been accused of ‘stigmatising autism' in a new pamphlet, John Harris tells Shelagh Fogarty it is 'hateful'.

Graph of the first nine harmonics and an x-ray of a conch shell's inner structure

The PascalTheatreCompany has a series of free talks lined up relating to women their Lottery-funded project 'Women for Women: 19th century Women in Bloomsbury'. On 12 Nov, @fidgeyb is hosting a free talk on 'Mary Somerville: A Mathematician in Regency London' pascal-theatre.com/project/mary-s…