Mathemalchemy: a mathematical and artistic adventure
This lecture is a visual treat as Ingrid Daubechies celebrates the joy, creativity and beauty of mathematics. Inspired by textile artist Dom...
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The Secrets of Mathematics
A series of talks and lectures from Oxford Mathematicians exploring the power and beauty of their subject. These talks would appeal to anyone interested in mathematics and its ever-growing r...
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20 of 93 episodesI is a Strange Loop - written and performed by Marcus du Sautoy and Victoria Gould
From the creative ensemble behind Complicité’s sensational A Disappearing Number, this two-hander unfolds to reveal an intriguing take on mo...
Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture. Jon Keating: From one extreme to another: the statistics of extreme events
Oxford University's Sedleian Professorship of Natural Philosophy is 400 years old in 2021. The title implies a wide range of study. Current...
Spacetime Singularities - Roger Penrose, Dennis Lehmkuhl and Melvyn Bragg
We are on board the Oxford Mathematics Space Probe for this Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture as we explore Black Holes with a Nobel Laureat...
Ideas for a Complex World - Anna Seigal
Science and maths are full of smart tools for explaining the world around us. Those tools can feel far removed from the way the rest of us u...
Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Henry Segerman - Artistic Mathematics: truth and beauty
Mathematicians get up to all sorts. Geometers and Topologists in particular occupy a world of inconceivable shapes, concepts and dimensions....
Mathematics Public Lecture: How Learning Ten Equations Can Improve Your Life - David Sumpter
Mathematics has a lot going for it, but David Sumpter argues that it can not only provide you with endless YouTube recommendations, and even...
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: How to Make the World Add Up - Tim Harford
You have to sympathise with statistics. Misunderstood and misused when all they want to do is accumulate. What they need is a little human u...
Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Can maths tell us how to win at Fantasy Football? - Joshua Bull
Oxford Mathematician Josh Bull won the 2019-2020 Premier League Fantasy Football competition from nearly 8 million entrants. So how did he d...
Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Squirrels, Turing and Excitability - Mathematical Modelling in Biology, Ecology and Medicine
The Grey Squirrel invasion explaining tumour cell proliferation? Alan Turing explaining football shirt patterns? The close relationship betw...
Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Number Theory: Primitive Roots
In this, the second online lecture we are making widely available, Ben Green introduces and delivers a short lecture on Primitive Roots, par...
Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Graph Theory: Shortest Paths
Oxford has gone online for lockdown. So how do our student lectures look? Let Marc Lackenby show you as he looks at paths between vertices i...
Smartphones v COVID 19
Smartphones will help save lives. Smartphones' value is exaggerated. What is the reality? And, as ever, what is the Maths behind it all? Lea...
How do mathematicians model infectious disease outbreaks?
Models. They are dominating our Lockdown lives. But what is a mathematical model? We hear a lot about the end result, but how is it put toge...
Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Differential Equations 2
Oxford Mathematician Peter Howell starts the second part of the 2nd year Differential Equations course which focuses on boundary problems. T...
Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Alan Champneys - Why pedestrian bridges wobble: Synchronisation and the wisdom of the crowd
So much noise, so many opinions. Perhaps time for Occam's Razor to start its scientific shaving? In this latest Oxford Mathematics Public Le...
Oxford Mathematics 3rd Year Student Lecture - Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives
Our latest student lecture features the first lecture in the third year course on Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives from Sam Cohe...
Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Student Lecture - Linear Algebra II
Our latest student lecture features the first lecture in the second term introductory course on Linear Algebra from leading Oxford Mathemati...
Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Ian Griffiths - Cheerios, iPhones and Dysons: going backwards in time with fluid mechanics
How do you make a star-shaped Cheerio? How do they make the glass on your smartphone screen so flat? And how can you make a vacuum filter th...
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Carlo Rovelli - Spin networks: the quantum structure of spacetime from Penrose's intuition to Loop Quantum Gravity
Carlo Rovelli delivers The Roger Penrose Lecture on the Quantum structure of Spacetime. In developing the mathematical description of quantu...