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This was the official BSHM account, maintained and posted from by @snezanalawrence. It is now defunct. For history of mathematics follow @snezanalawrence

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A reminder: this account is the bshm.ac.uk account, and will be shut on X shortly. You can follow bshm.ac.uk on LinkedIn and Facebook. For history of maths on X continue following @snezanalawrence.
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This is a bshm.ac.uk account and will soon, as if by magic, disappear. You can follow @snezanalawrence for mathematics history tweets. See you there.
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This account is the bshm.ac.uk account, and will be shut on X shortly. You can follow bshm.ac.uk on LinkedIn and Facebook. For history of maths on X you can follow @snezanalawrence.
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This account is the bshm.ac.uk account, and will be shut on X shortly. You can follow bshm.ac.uk on LinkedIn and Facebook. For history of maths on X you can follow @snezanalawrence.
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After much thought, the BSHM has decided to close this account. There will be other accounts on other platforms, on X @snezanalawrence is still here. Thank you to everyone who has followed, supported, and shared the love of the history of mathematics with us! Appreciate you all
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wonderful!
Snezana Lawrence (@snezanalawrence) profile pictureSnezana Lawrence
@snezanalawrenceFeb 3
Byrne's Euclid was done with the aim "to introduce a means of teaching geometry... The plan here adopted appeals forcibly to the eye, the most sensitive and the most comprehensive of our external organs ..." now online and interactive c82.net/euclid/ by @rougeux
Byrne's Euclid

Byrne's Euclid

A reproduction of Oliver Byrne's celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux

c82.net
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Oxford Mathematics@OxUniMathsJan 18
Robin Wilson's seventh talk on the equations that make mathematics brings us to the algebra of logic, starting with the laws of arithmetic, moving to the foundations of logic and set theory and finishing with the beginnings of computers. Fun for all ages. youtu.be/atB4vrFy79M
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In Oxford earlier this week - girls aged from 11 to 15, in two lectures - on higher dimensions, and packing.
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Only saw today that this is now in print: "The Mending of Broken Bones" by Paul Lockhart | Book review | Snezana Lawrence the-tls.com/science-technolo… with the illustration of al-Khwārizmī, the most famous of Persian mathematicians.
A practical guide to the ‘algebraic art’

A practical guide to the ‘algebraic art’

A practical guide to the ‘algebraic art’

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Good morning good people. Today I'll be talking to a large group of girls who are using exercise books just like this - although probably not writing about relativity theory in them just yet.
Physics In History (@PhysInHistory) profile picturePhysics In History
@PhysInHistoryJan 13
Some pages of Einstein's relativity notebooks written around 1912-13. Courtesy of Albert Einstein Archives.
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Quanta Magazine
@QuantaMagazineJan 2
This is the Weierstrauss function, a “monster” that is continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere. First published in 1872, it prompted scrutiny of assumptions in calculus. Similar functions are used to study random motion and analyze risk. quantamagazine.org/the-jagge…
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Jon Hernandez
@JonhernandezIAJan 2
📁 Terence Tao, mathematician and Fields Medalist, says AI may look like it reasons, but it does not understand. Language models imitate the steps of human reasoning without solid foundations. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they collapse entirely. The output looks convincing, but it is fragile. It feels like understanding, yet it is probability pretending to think.
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Mathematical Game Theory has many applications, many in economics but also in politics. This is a nice explanation of how a game happens and how we can understand it.
Liberty Fund (@Liberty_Fund) profile pictureLiberty Fund
@Liberty_Fund23 Dec 2025
Game theory is one way that individuals can understand their relationships with one another. Listen in as we reflect on some of our most influential and highly viewed content in 2025 like our interview with James Buchanan as part of our 2025 Best Of's Series!
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We have a very special @philoxophy event taking place on Sat 7th Feb at 11am. @philosophybites @CMArtReviews @Jamie_Woodward_ and @snezanalawrence on a 'What Is?' panel discussion Free to attend @blackwellbooks
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Wonderful! Happy New Year
Mel Colley (@rugbymel) profile pictureMel Colley@rugbymelJan 1
@IMcMillan @snezanalawrence @jimalkhalili @PhilipPullman @RichardDawkins @elizabethalker To begin 2026
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Very much looking forward to this!
Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop (@blackwelloxford) profile pictureBlackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop@blackwelloxford23 Dec 2025
We have a very special @philoxophy event taking place on Sat 7th Feb at 11am. @philosophybites @CMArtReviews @Jamie_Woodward_ and @snezanalawrence on a 'What Is?' panel discussion Free to attend @blackwellbooks
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Today we're launching Wolfram Compute Services ... making supercomputing absurdly easy. Develop code in Wolfram Language, then just use RemoteBatchSubmit[code] to scale! I've needed this for decades, and now it's here! writings.stephenwolfram.com/…
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Karl Menger (1902-1985) is definitely one of my new favourite mathematicians. See what you can do (and other teenagers) with his fractal cube, aka Menger sponge quantamagazine.org/teen-math…
Teen Mathematicians Tie Knots Through a Mind-Blowing Fractal | Quanta Magazine

Teen Mathematicians Tie Knots Through a Mind-Blowing Fractal | Quanta Magazine

Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old theorem to prove that all knots can be found in a fractal called the Menger sponge.

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📐 It’s #MathsWeekEngland 2025! The theme, “Connection or Coincidence?”, has us revisiting Prof @AlainGoriely’s mind-bending lecture “The Deceived Brain: Coding and Illusion.” Can maths explain why our eyes trick us? 👀 👉 gres.hm/coding-illusion @OxUniMaths #Maths #STEM
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Free resources for teachers on the history of mathematics this week! #MathsWeekEngland #NCETM #mathsweek #maths
Yale University Press London 📖 (@YaleBooks) profile pictureYale University Press London 📖@YaleBooks18 Nov 2025
Free teaching worksheets on the Fibonacci sequence, golden number, & the golden ratio for @maths_week. Download them plus a free chapter on Fibonacci from A Little History of Mathematics by @snezanalawrence here: yalebooks.co.uk/a-little-his… #MWE25 #MathsWeek #UKMathsChat #teammaths
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