Formal Mathematics
Between 1910 and 1913 British Mathematicians Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell published three versions of their book Principia Mathematica. In these books they attempted to formalise all known mathematics …
Course: Preparing for Further Study in Mathematics
Always Easy When You Can Do It
The response “it’s always easy when you can do it” is often said in jest, but is very applicable to Mathematics. There is a very real case to be made …
What changed after Newton and Leibnitz?
Although Newton and Leibnitz may not actually be responsible for the sea-change in Mathematics which started at the dawn of the Eighteenth Century, their work certainly marked its beginning. Before …
Basic Mathematics
Mathematics questions at this stage tend to focus on calculation and very simple algebraic manipulation. The first question we look at here is numeric: Calculate (324.6 times 23.9). The second …
Welcome to Week 2
A brief video welcoming you to week 2 of the course. This week stands alone in looking (very briefly) at some of the history of Mathematics.
Welcome
Welcome to our FutureLearn course on preparing for further study in Mathematics. We are Mathematics teachers at The Manchester Grammar School. Andrew has a BSc and MSc in Mathematics and …