Tony Mann

Head of Department, Mathematical Sciences
The University of Greenwich

National Teaching Fellow, 2008

Contact: phone (+44) (0) 20 8331 8709
Email: A.Mann@gre.ac.uk

Research interests: mainly history of mathematics. If you're on Facebook, check out the group Who invented mathematics?

Here I'm demonstrating "Leonardo da Vinci's perpetual motion machine" (as sold by the V&A at their recent Leonardo exhibition). In fact this implementation is based on the principle of the "Uphill roller" described by William Leybourn in Pleasure with Profit (1694). For more information see Julian Havil's article in Plus magazine.

Professional Bodies:
President, British Society for the History of Mathematics
Treasurer, Leonardo da Vinci Society
Committee Member, Computer Arts Society (a specialist group of the British Computer Society)
Member (and Reviews Editor for the Newsletter), London Mathematical Society
Member of the Council of the UK Mathematics Trust
Member, Edinburgh Mathematical Society
Member, European Mathematical Society
Member, the Mathematical Association
Fellow, Higher Education Academy

I am a member of a number of societies relating to my interest in the history of mathematics, including The Hakluyt Society, the Scientific Instrument Society, the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, the Society for Renaissance Studies. I am also a member of the Birkbeck Neo-Latin Reading Group and attend the monthly Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar series (EMPHASIS).