Editorial

The contributors to this issue of the BSHM Bulletin have each written about British mathematicians, from the well known to the relatively obscure: Thomas Harriot, James Gregory, John Playfair, William Rowan Hamilton, George Boole, Francis Galton, John Venn, and Karl Pearson. The authors discuss the lives, work, aspirations, errors, and opinions of these men in thought-provoking and sometimes unexpected ways, and in doing so offer a series of intriguing vignettes of mathematical culture in the British Isles from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.