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The University of Cambridge has been the academic home of a long list of mathematicians. Many of the best known and most influential have held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. These have included Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac and the current holder Stephen Hawking.
The Centre for Mathematical Sciences houses the Cambridge University Faculty of Mathematics, the Isaac Newton Insititute (where the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem was announced), and the Gordon Moore Library (Moore was the inventor of "Moore's Law").
The centre is situated on Wilberforce Road and was opened in 2003. It won four major architectural awards.
The Mathematical Bridge is a wooden bridge that spans the River Cam that joins two parts of Queens' College. You can see it from the Silver Street bridge over the Cam, or by visiting Queens' College, or by taking a punt trip along the Cam at the 'backs' of the colleges.
If you ask a tourist guide they will usually tell you the story of how this bridge was designed and constructed by Sir Isaac Newton using mathematical principles, and was built without the need for bolts to hold it together. The college later wanted to find out how the bridge was built and dismantled it, but were unable to reassemble it in the same way and had to put bolts into it to hold it together.
While this makes for a good story it is unfortunately entirely untrue. The bridge was built 22 years after the death of Isaac Newton. Other similar versions of the story are almost certainly also untrue
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The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is one of the most important scientific sites in the world. As well as being the defined location of zero degrees longitude, it is also the home of Greenwich Mean Time.
As well as various exhibitions relating to astronomy, the observatory houses displays regarding the determination of longitude (the navigation problem that the observatory was set up to solve), and which was eventually solved by watchmaker John Harrison.
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