Noel-Ann Bradshaw Author

Noel-Ann Bradshaw is Professor of Operational Research and Mathematics Education and a senior manager at the University of Greenwich. She is Chair of the Joint Mathematical Council of the UK (JMC) and a member of the Royal Society’s Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME). As well as working in academia, she has also spent time in industry as a Senior Data Scientist working on problems related to supply chain optimisation. She is also known for her research on Florence Nightingale’s contribution to statistics and use and management of data.

Tony Mann teaches at the University of Greenwich, where his roles include recruitment and outreach. His research interests include the history of mathematics, and he is a former President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. He is one of the editors of Mathematics at the Meridian: the history of mathematics at Greenwich (CRC Press, 2020)

Vanilla Beer is a painter based in France. Her work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions, in Britain, France, the USA, and elsewhere, and her paintings feature in her books Prenez Mangez et Vivez and Saints in Paint. She is also the author of the cartoon biography Stafford Beer: the Father of Management Cybernetics (with Allenna Leonard) and most recently of Death: a Work in Progress.