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We are inviting applications for our biennial, non-stipendiary, Visiting Fellowship in the History of Mathematics for two months in the academic year 2025-26 or 2026-27. Deadline for applications 24 January 2025.

We invite applications for a St Andrews Global Doctoral Scholarship held in collaboration with the Lichtenberg Group for the History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bonn for a project “Continuities and Discontinuities in Understanding the Origin of Mass”. Deadline for applications 21 February 2025.

Seminar by Rebecca Waldecker (University of Halle-Wittenberg), 27 February 2025, 4-5pm in Lecture Theatre D. Tea in the common room from 3:30pm.

We lead the History for Diversity in Mathematics Network which aims to build a network around using history of mathematics to promote equality, diversity and inclusion in the mathematics curriculum in UK HE. For details of the online reading group, and upcoming network events, signup to the HISTORY-FOR-EDI-IN-MATHS  mailing list.

History of Mathematics

St Andrews is a renowned centre for the study of the History of Mathematics.

The group is based in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, and runs the well-known MacTutor History of Mathematics website

Group members include:

• Prof Isobel Falconer
• Dr Deborah Kent
• Dr John J O’Connor
• Prof Colva Roney-Dougal
• Prof Edmund F Robertson

We welcome long and short term visiting scholars. A current visitor is Dr David Waszek

We have graduated a number of PhD students in this area. Current PhD students are Kate Hindle.

St Andrews runs a popular honours-level undergraduate course on the History of Mathematics and another on the History and Future of Data, as well as a Vertically Integrated Project, “History, mathematics & the public”. We run a module in our Evening Degree programme.