BSHM meetings: BMS History of Mathematics Splinter Group

Introduction to abstracts from papers given at BMS History of Mathematics Splinter Group, held 17 April 2007, in Swansea.

BSHM meetings [Photographs]

Report on Research in Progress, held The Queen’s College, Oxford, 24 February 2007. Photos by Tony Mann. Figure 1. Raymond Flood presenting the BSHM prize for 2007 to Tony Gould. Figure 2. Speakers and helpers at Research in Progress 2007. From left to right: Craig Stephenson, Raymond Flood, Benjamin Wardhaugh, David Parks, Mel Bayley, Eleanor Sheppard, Judith Grabiner, Jackie Stedall, Nicola Boyle, Amirouche Moktefi.

BSHM meetings: British Mathematics Colloquium

Report on the British Mathematics Colloquium, which took place in York, 25-28 March 2008. Also includes abstracts of the individual talks.

[BSHM meetings] Topics in the history of financial mathematics: early commerce to chaos in modern stock markets

This account provides an overview of the study day, entitled 'Topics in the History of Financial Mathematics: Early commerce to chaos in modern stock markets,' held by the British Society for the History of Mathematics jointly with Gresham College, at Gresham College, London on 25th April 2008. The series of talks explored the development of mathematics and mathematical techniques in a commercial and financial context.