Peter Rowlett
@peterrowlett.net
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I teach maths and computing at a UK university and work as a maths communicator. Sheffield/Nottingham based. Editor, The Mathematical Gazette. Aperiodical blog, Mathematical Objects podcast. Part of finitegroup.co.uk peterrowlett.net
![Mathematical Gazetteer of the British Isles
Peter Rowlett Math FIMA, Sheffield Hallam University
What do you do to find places to visit when travelling? Consult a guidebook? Search Google Maps? Look at reviews on TripAdvisor?
Early in my career, when I used to travel a lot to visit universities around the UK, I would often look up the places I was visiting in the Mathematical Gazetteer of the British Isles. This is an alphabetical listing of place names, and each has some information about mathematical places of interest and the mathematicians who were born, died, worked or visited there.
These were collected and published by the late David Singmaster in the BSHM Newsletter of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. Singmaster explained that he had been collecting information 'for some years' already by the time of the first publication [1]. The series was published in 18 parts from](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2cztrl4zqdmevgscjlwmjw5k/bafkreidrxi7qscaknfqng267yjdikxpgtac25ugt2db2yqhhmhl5or5xqm)
