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Showing posts with label maths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maths. Show all posts
Friday, 11 September 2020

80 More Gays Around the World: Part 20) Swedish Legacies

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Last time on “80 More Gays” : 53) Narses (c.478-c.568) , one of the greatest military commanders of the Byzantine Empire, was open about ...
Wednesday, 26 August 2015

Around the World in 80 Gays : Part 17 - A Spy

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LAST TIME : 48) Keith Tomlinson (b.1980) climbed Mount Elbrus in Russia, one of the 7 highest continental mountains (the Seven Summits), a...
Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Around the World in 80 Gays - the First Catch-Up

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Regular readers will may have been following this continuing series. We’re half way through it, now, so for those of you who have jumped i...
Sunday, 10 May 2015

Stargayzing : The Pink Triangle that Pointed to the Centre of the Solar System

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The pink triangle is an established symbol for a gay man. There can be no more appropriate symbol for the subject of today’s article, be...
Thursday, 8 January 2015

Around the World in 80 Gays : Part 1 - A Quest

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Here we go on our round the world tour of lgbt heritage. As I said in the introduction a few days ago this will be a continuous journey br...
Sunday, 3 November 2013

How the Leopard Got Its Mathematical Spots

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According to Rudyard Kipling the leopard got it’s spots because an Ethiopian pressed his finger tips all over the cat’s fur. But for zool...
Thursday, 20 June 2013

1 + 1 = 1

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It’s surprising how many mathematicians and computer scientists there are who are partners of others. It’s not so obvious in the other sc...
Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Masters of Maths

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There’s an old legend which tells how a mathematician invented the game of chess. You probably know a version of it. It begins with an ea...
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Saturday, 8 June 2013

Getting it Straight About - the Apple Logo

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Its strange how quickly some urban myths and common misconceptions can spread. Unfortunately, most of them are much slower to correct. On...
Monday, 3 June 2013

Heritage Spotlight - Bletchley Park

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The work done by Alan Turing at Bletchley Park during World War II is well known. So well known, in fact, that it overshadows the work ...