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Better and clearer practices in “the evidence”

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Kucharski, a professor of mathematics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, explores how proof is not just a mathematical concept but a vital tool in decision-making, justice, and survival. From the medieval Islamic world to the recent pandemic, scientific progress has relied on different methods of establishing fact from fiction. Today, in the face of ever-increasing disinformation, how we prove things – to ourselves and others- has never felt more urgent. There is far more to proof than axioms, theories and scientific §       of someone’s guilt, or deciding whether to trust a new type of financial transaction, weighing … Continue reading Better and clearer practices in “the evidence”

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Concept of Zero

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Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stores we have been told about it are wrong,  Brilliant Arabic scholars of the ninth-century House of Wisdom, and the pioneering African American  Mathematicians of the twentieth century to the “lady computer’ around the world who revolutionised our knowledge of the night sky, we meet these fascinating trailblazers and see how they contributed to our global knowledge today. Kate Kitagawa, director of the Space Education Office at the Japan, Aerospace Exploration Afghanistan  and Timothy Revell’s ( deputy US editor at the New Scientist,  … Continue reading Concept of Zero