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In the 17th century Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) quite independently invented a new branch of mathematics later called Calculus. This new bra...

Easy or difficult; crazy or abstrac; boring or rigorious - Whatever your take is on mathematics it does not change the nature of mathematics in anyway and like any other subject ...

Increasingly parents are turning to private tuition to support and enhance the learning that takes place in school. According to the Institute of Education Researchers, maths is the m...

Approximating Pi The number Pi (?) is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle`s circumference to its diameter, and is approximately equal to 3.14159. It is the same num...

When I was at university, I was plagued by worry about the number of essay questions I`d inevitably have to do, when I was studying first history, and then law. I soon found though...

Please let some of Albert Einstein's funny sayings and inspirational thoughts on the subject of mathematics inspire you. Einstein was not only a genius but also had sense of humour. ...

Clactononsea It was a Tuesday and Tuesday meant Show and Tell. The class of Year 3 had seen a tiny plane, flown by the Dare Devil Maxine, that she'd spent most of the day charging ...

When the conquistadors first began their exploration of the New World they became enraptured by rumours of El Dorado, the mythical City of Gold. Their hunt through the dense jungles o...

The tenor of the times has changed. Death in combat is no longer universally considered the heroic action it was before the First World War. Mass slaughter and mechanised warfare has ...

In modernism and postmodernism, Jean-François Lyotard gave to Roland Barthes the finest Christmas present of his life. What better way to celebrate the death of the author than the pr...