Diversity in Mathematics
Diverse History of Mathematics (2025)
In the summer of 2025, our students undertook a project to co-create a new module on "A Diverse History of Mathematics", in consultation with Prof. Jeremy Gray and Prof. June Barrow-Green (Open University) and several academics at UK universities.
The research interns were Rachel Haddad, Matty Harvey and Iman Zahid. The work was supervised by Dr Siri Chongchitnan and Dr Helena Verrill.
The team has produced an accompanying poster which gives an overview of the module.
Diversity in Mathematics posters (2023)
In the summer of 2023, our students undertook 5 research projects on various topics on the theme of diversity in mathematics, supervised by Dr Siri Chongchitnan and Dr Helena Verrill. The students were:
- Aardra Jithesh: Decolonising mathematics: reclaiming non-Europeans mathematics attributed to European mathematicians
- Gihan Mallikarachchige: Racial bias in medical statistics and AI
- Ximan Mao: Mathematics from China
- Kitty Powell: Mathematical texts from the non-European world that made an impact on the development of mathematics
- Rae Shaw: How do different cultures represent and work with numbers?
Click on each title to read more about their work. They have also produced posters that are now on display in the main foyer of Zeeman Building. Here are the digital versions of their posters.
