Celebrating… Muhammad al-Fulani
Date: Wednesday 17 June 2026
Times: 10:00 AM or 2:00 PM (50 minutes each)
Format: Live, online, and classroom-ready – all you need is paper!
This school year the Heilbronn Institute is celebrating Black Mathematicians with Big Ideas.
Each term, Celebrating will introduce students to amazing mathematicians, past and present, and explore their field of maths with a special mathematical guest whether it’s logic or long division, measurements or mental maths, proportions or even planets!
The third and final Celebrating event of this school year wraps up with the fascinating story of Muhammad al-Fulani, an 18th century scholar, mathematician and astrologer from Nigeria. He was known for publishing the Arabic mathematical scholarly manuscript titled, “A Treatise on the Magical Use of the Letters of the Alphabet”.
Who can join?
Open to upper primary school classes across the UK – book your FREE place now and go from zero to hero!!
Register your class
Spaces are limited – reserve your place today:
Expert Guest – Lassina Dembélé
“Come explore the beauty of magic squares with me!”
Lassina Dembélé is a Lecturer in Computational Number Theory in the Department of Mathematics, King’s College London. Lassina received his PhD from McGill University, Canada. He also held various research positions at universities across the world, from the US to Luxembourg.
Host – Bilkisu Labaran
Bilkisu Labaran is an experienced award-winning global Journalist and Senior Editor having worked for decades at both the BBC and Reuters. A passionate storyteller, her multimedia skills span radio, podcasts, TV/ video, film and social media journalism. She has twice been named as “Most Powerful Woman in Journalism” (2020, 2021) by Women in Journalism WIJ Africa.
Email maths@big-ideas.org if you have any questions.
