These charts and tables give the most comprehensive picture available of Britain's higher education system and its development over almost two decades. Compiling information is fraught with problems...
I See a Voice
The Nature of Mathematical Modelling
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work in which the protagonist feels particularly friendly towards the end of the week: " I was born...
More Things in Heaven and Earth
Doubt and Certainty
The Comprehensibilty of the Universe
String Theory Volume One - String Theory Volume Two
The Four-Colour Theorem
An Introductory Course in Commutative Algebra - Geometry - Glimpses of Algebra and Geometry - Numbers and Geometry - Introduction to Linear Algebra and Linear Algebra - Introduction to Algebra -...
Feynman and Computation
The earliest attack on Eugenio Pacelli's wartime conduct is the 1963 play by Rolf Hochhuth, The Representative in Berlin. Hochhuth's papal portrait is of a heartless, avaricious cynic, who,...
John Cornwell has found damning evidence against saint-in-waiting Pope Pius XII. As those about to be canonised face increased academic scrutiny, becoming a saint has never been so tough. Supplying...
(Photograph) - Along with Eugenio Pacelli (above), other controversial figures under consideration for sainthood by the Vatican include Mother Teresa (left) and the Capuchin monk Padre Pio. Hostile...