Reaching for the Extreme

What is the maximum land you can enclose inside a given border? What is the minimum number of colours you can use to colour in a map so that no region shares a shade? And how do you calculate the shortest route between two cities? These questions may not sound related, but they have this in common: they all explore extremes.

Join author and mathematician Ian Stewart as we some of the most extreme areas of mathematical study and their applications - from the legend of Dido's founding of the city of Carthage to contemporary satellite navigation systems.

From soap bubbles to the cosmos, Britain's most beloved mathematician tells the fascinating stories of the people and ideas pushing the very bounds of mathematics - and the discoveries that have changed our lives.

Chaired by Jo Durrant.

There will be a book signing after this event.