Alex(ei) of The Russian Dilettante's Weblog writes about a respected Russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko and his controversial “new chronology of world history” – in which, for example, “Jesus ...

Like many other humanitarian disciplines, history is a science where it’s difficult to speak of the ultimate truth. Many people understand this – but Anatoly Fomenko (born in 1945), a Soviet-Russian ...

TO the alarm of Russian intellectuals, a new Slavocentric history of the world that suggests Britain was once part of a Russian empire is attracting growing numbers of converts. The history, known as ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...