Robin Wilson is an Oxford graduate, Emeritus Professor of Pure
Mathematics at the Open University, and Emeritus Professor of Geometry
at Gresham College, London (the oldest mathematical chair in England).
He is well known as a popularizer of mathematics, winning two
prestigious awards from the Mathematical Association of America for
'outstanding expository writing'. Previous publications include Mathematics and Music: From Pythagoras to Fractals and Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and Other Tales of Mathematical History.
Raymond Flood
is Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, having been
Vice-President of the college and former President of
he British
Society for the History of Mathematics before retiring in 2010. He
enjoys communicating mathematics and its history to non-specialist
audiences, as he has done previously on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time. Previous publications include James Clerk Maxwell: Perspectives on his Life and Work and
Mathematics in Victorian Britain.