Postcard from Bishkek

Numbers play an important part in mankind’s history and culture.  However, many people in the world view numbers with distrust and suspicion (the British Prime Minister, Disraeli, is said to have uttered “There are lies, damn lies and statistics” when presented with ever increasing figures for the cost of building Babbage’s Analytical Engine – the [...]

Charles Dodgson was a Mathematics Don at Christchurch College in Oxford, but he is better known by his alter ego, Lewis Carroll and for the Alice stories (Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass) which he made up to while away the hours on Summer afternoons and entertain the young Alice Liddell as [...]