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Louisiane Ferlier's cataloguing of a volume of Brook Taylor correspondence at the Royal Society sheds light on the Newton-Leibniz 'calculus controversy'.

Louisiane Ferlier looks at the three books donated to the Royal Society Library by mathematician Augustus De Morgan, all with intriguing inscriptions and insertions.

New research published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface explores the importance of string figures in mathematics and cultural studies. Dr Roope Kaaronen from the University of Helsinki provides an overview of their work.

Royal Society Archivist Virginia Mills and Malcolm Smith of Lincoln’s Heslam Trust reveal the story behind a bronze figure of George Boole FRS, cast especially for the Society.

Guest Editor, Dr Federico Holik, introduces us to his Philosophical Transactions A theme issue which explores the concepts of identity and indistinguishability in science.

How did the designer of a theatrical device to project ‘ghosts’ on the Victorian stage come to donate a significant collection of books to the Royal Society Library? Louisiane Ferlier investigates...

Anne McLaughlin finds some mathematical surprises in the Royal Society's oldest manuscript, dating back to around 1200 and donated by a controversial Shakespearian scholar.

A new exhibition shows how mathematics was central to the work of the artist, writer and critic John Ruskin, as curator Professor Sandra Kemp explains.

Mathematician Nira Chamberlain talks about some of the inspirational figures he encountered when chairing the 'Black Heroes of Mathematics' conference.

Louisiane Ferlier explains how the work of John Napier (1550-1617) exerted a strong influence on the mathematicians of the early Royal Society.

A celebration of the life and work of Srinivasa Ramanujan, on the centenary of his election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

Louisiane Ferlier gives an overview of the major mathematical works at the core of the Royal Society's collections, with key names including Euclid, Newton, Bayes and Boole.