# The Annual BSHM Gresham College Lectures

- Institution: Gresham College
- Taught by: Dr Adrian Rice, Dr Allan Chapman, Dr Stephen Johnston, Dr June Barrow-Green, Professor Jim Bennett, Professor Jeremy Gray, Dr Patricia Fara, Dr Peter Neumann OBE, Tony Royle, Professor David Aubin, Dr Rebekah Higgitt, Ana Simões
- Year: 2004
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics, Astronomy and space, History, Literature and writing, Languages and linguistics
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/bshm)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The Victorian period was a time of massive change for London, not least in the development and availability for university-level mathematics. This lecture investigates the changes that took place, highlighting some of the famous mathematicians involved, and comparing their teaching styles and the courses they offered at a wide variety of teaching establishments across the capital between 1837 and 1901.

## Lectures

1. [Mathematics and the Metropolis: A Survey of Victorian London](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/c5e37da59bad) (YouTube)
2. [The celestial geometry of John Flamsteed: Mapping the heavens from 17th century Greenwich](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/2f1dfe3c57e0) (YouTube)
3. [History from Below: Mathematics, Instruments and Archaeology](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/54569d3e9119) (YouTube)
4. [Planes and pacifism: Activities and attitudes of British mathematicians during WWI](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/0953cdf82e38) (YouTube)
5. [Mathematics and the Medici: Instruments from Late Renaissance Florence and a British Connection](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/c6e61c3a837d) (YouTube)
6. [Mathematics, Motion, and Truth: The Earth goes round the Sun](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/27e2e6812377) (YouTube)
7. [Triangular Relationships](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/c898f94aa608) (YouTube)
8. [The Memoirs and Legacy of Évariste Galois](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/d19daf29c759) (YouTube)
9. [Mathematics in War and Peace - Flying Mathematicians](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/338d21ecf281) (YouTube)
10. [Mathematics in War and Peace - Stories about Mathematicians Killed in WW1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/959b695c5201) (YouTube)
11. [Mathematics in War and Peace - Euler's Work on Ballistics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/fdfd28958a92) (YouTube)
12. [Mathematical Practice and the 18th-Century British Voyages of Scientific Exploration](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/2985ea958d7a) (YouTube)
13. [A Global History of the Eclipse of 29 May 1919](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/6851deac55a9) (YouTube)
14. [Privateer and Mathematician: The Voyages of Edward Wright](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/5b0f6cd8b109) (YouTube)
15. [Cryptocurrencies: Protocols for Consensus](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/4a670c3b6ea4) (YouTube)
16. [Reserve Currencies in the Era of Fiat Money](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/446c96ba40e6) (YouTube)
17. [Thomas Harriot on the Coins of England](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/8d2de26e6858) (YouTube)
18. [Knot Just Numbers: Andean Khipu Strings](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/9c7989b81a2e) (YouTube)
19. [Histories of Numbers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/031c742e1213) (YouTube)
20. [Sanskrit Mathematics in the Language of Poetry](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/eebf29eb25ed) (YouTube)
21. [Let’s Decolonise the History of Mathematical Proofs!](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/63def8749484) (YouTube)
22. [How Mathematical Proofs Are Like Recipes](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/efbf680f8832) (YouTube)
23. [The Invention of Mathematical Proof in the Renaissance](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/5439f1e91d3b) (YouTube)
24. [Victorian Era Astronomy: On Land and in the Skies](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/1139e6dfb24b) (YouTube)
25. [19th-Century Eclipse Expeditions](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/5f4615ea1750) (YouTube)
26. [Shaping Mathematical Practices of the Science of the Stars](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/47fc5a5e9b84) (YouTube)
27. [Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/d483645549b6) (Audio)
28. [How Does Mathematics Last? Heritage and Heritage-making in Mathematics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/17061ef8f00e) (Audio)
29. [What Do You Need a Mathematician For? Perspectives from the 17th Century](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-bshm/c5461d06a845) (YouTube)