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Benjamin Wardhaugh is a historian; he does research and teaches at the University of Oxford, where since October 2007 he has been a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College. He is a graduate of Cambridge, Oxford, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and holds degrees in mathematics, music, and history. (A CV can be found here, with lists of publications and invited papers.)
His current research is on the social history of mathematics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England: who used mathematics, and how? where did they learn it? how was it portrayed in fiction and theatre? This project will result in an accessible account of early modern British mathematics, and articles on various aspects of it. He also works on mathematical theories of music from the same period. His book, Music, Experiment and Mathematics presents the results of that research (for the book's errata follow this link), and he is involved in a series of editions of music-theory texts from early modern England; including the musical writings of John Birchensha, which will appear during 2009. He teaches the history of mathematics in various periods, in both the Mathematical Institute and the History Faculty at Oxford. A selection of the many things he has learned from his students will appear in his forthcoming textbook, How to Read Historical Mathematics His other interests include playing the bassoon, both in chamber groups and amateur orchestras, and composing and arranging. He lives in Oxford with his wife, Jessica, who is also a historian, and his son William. He can be contacted at: enquiries at benjaminwardhaugh.co.uk
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