Blogs by Lucy Rycroft-Smith

A close up of a blue front door, with the number 1 in black

Join Lucy Rycroft-Smith as she ponders what proportion of the world has an address

A sketch drawing of a man typing away on a typewriter, with the light from a lamp shining on him

Lucy Rycroft-Smith explores the mysterious world of logical reasoning, piecing together the clues about what kind of mathematics we practise when we reason differently

A tree shape made up of lines and circles in a range of different colours.

Join Lucy Rycroft-Smith as she thinks creatively about using tree diagrams, from Morse Code to “choose your own adventure” stories

A dice with an arrow pointing forwards, one to reverse and the words stop on each visible face. Placed in a 5 way crossroad

Lucy Rycroft-Smith asks whether it is possible to do ethical harm using mathematics and looks at some possible ways to prevent doing so

A range of illustrated animals and fauna arranged in an evolutionary timeline

Join Lucy Rycroft-Smith as she explores the idea of evolution and development in relation to mathematics

Blogs by Lucy Rycroft-Smith

Whose location counts?

Did you mean to call my Holmes number?

Trying trees

Mathematics as an ethical practice

Roman around in maths history