MUS in Europe: Math in England

Dr. Steve Gadbois will lead the 2025 MUS in Europe trip Math in England from May 26 to June 5.
Priority will be given to current juniors, then to current sophomores. Interested students must let Dr. Gadbois know now (even those who did so back in September). Later this fall, families of interested students will get another notice and be given the opportunity to make their deposit. 
 
The itinerary will include stops in London, Greenwich, Cambridge, Bletchley, and Oxford, on the trail of historical sites and figures related to mathematics.

Participants will earn math credit by successfully completing next spring’s special math course (including its homework!) in preparation for the trip.
 
Interested students should make sure that they have, or have applied for, a valid passport that will be current through the end of the year 2025. See helpful information HERE. 
 
For more information about this trip and to indicate your son’s interest in participating, please contact Dr. Steve Gadbois or see the most recent email sent to families.

LONDON
  • Science Museum
  • Royal Statistical Society
  • Florence Nightingale Museum
  • Westminster Abbey (Sir Isaac Newton’s tomb)
  • Broad Street Pump (the cause of a cholera outbreak that killed hundreds in 1854)
  • Tower of London (where Newton served as warden of the mint!)
  • Day trip (at least one way by boat on the Thames) to Greenwich, site of the Prime Meridian and the Royal Observatory
  • Many non-mathematical must-sees (British Museum, Soho, St. Paul’s, the Shard, a live show, etc.)
CAMBRIDGE
  • Trinity College (where Newton, Hardy, and Ramanujan studied)
  • The Mathematical Bridge (with punting on the River Cam)
BLETCHLEY
  • Bletchley Park (once the top-secret home of the World War II codebreakers)
  • National Museum of Computing
OXFORD
  • Oxford Science Museum
  • Christ Church (one of the stained-glass window in its dining hall – familiar to fans of Harry Potter movies – depicts characters from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a book with its own allusions to math) 
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