The Secrets of Mathematics
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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 range of applications from medicine to economics and beyond.
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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 Dominique Ehr...
I 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 mortality, c...
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 holder Jon...
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 Laureate, a Profe...
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 understand...
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. But how d...
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 make you...
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 understandi...
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 do it? Did...
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 between slugs...
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, part of the N...
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 in a graph...
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? Leading Netwo...
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 together? What...
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. This lectur...
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 Lecture Alan...
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 Cohen where we...
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 Mathematician James...
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 that removes...
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 quantum spacetim...
Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture: Chris Budd - Why does Rudolf have a shiny nose?
From the unfairness of voting on TV shows to how Santa gets down so many narrow chimneys. Chris Budd take a mathematical look at the traditions of Chr...
Jon Chapman - Waves and resonance: from musical instruments to vacuum cleaners, via metamaterials and invisibility cloaks
Via guitars, clarinets and a musical saw to the noise reduction in a vaccum cleaner, Jon Chapman explains the role of waves in the sounds we hear and...
Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Quantum Theory
Our latest student lecture is the first in the Quantum Theory course for second year students. Fernando Alday reflects on the breakdown of the determi...
Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture: Timothy Gowers - Productive generalization: one reason we will never run out of interesting mathematical questions
In our Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture Tim Gowers uses the principle of generalization to show how mathematics progresses in its relentless p...
Oxford Mathematics Newcastle Public Lecture: Vicky Neale - in Maths
Mathematics has no place for emotion, its practitioners are positively unemotional. True? Well, no. In fact 10 out of 10 untrue. Mathematics and mathe...
Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Differential Equations 1
We continue with our series of Student Lectures with this first lecture in the 2nd year Course on Differential Equations. Professor Philip Maini begi...
Oxford Mathematics 1st year Student Lecture - Introductory Calculus
In our latest student lecture we would like to give you a taste of the Oxford Mathematics Student experience as it begins in its very first week. In t...
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: David Sumpter - Soccermatics: could a Premier League team one day be managed by a mathematician?
What do you need to win the Premier League? Money? Sure. Good players? Yup. A great manager? It helps. Mathematics? Really? 100%. Oxford Mathematics P...
Oxford Mathematics Open Days Part 3. Applied Mathematics at Oxford
Our Open Days are intended to give an insight in to Maths at Oxford, whether you are a potential applicant or are just curious. In this talk about the...
Oxford Mathematics Open Days Part 2. Pure Mathematics at Oxford
In this talk Vicky Neale gives a glimpse of the undergraduate Pure Maths courses through the lens of elliptic curves. Our Open Days are intended to gi...
Oxford Mathematics Open Days Part 1. Introduction to Mathematics
In this talk, Admissions Guru James Munro explains how we teach, how you can apply and what your Oxford mathematical life might be like. Our Open Days...
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: John Bush - Walking on water: from biolocomotion to quantum foundations
In this Public Lecture, which contains more technical content than our norm, John Bush presents seemingly disparate topics which are in fact united by...
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marcus du Sautoy - The Creativity Code: how AI is learning to write, paint and think
In this fascinating and provocative lecture, Marcus du Sautoy both tests our ability to distinguish between human and machine creativity, and suggests...
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Graham Farmelo - The Universe Speaks in Numbers
An old-fashioned tale of tale of romance and estrangement, of hope and despair. Graham Farmelo's Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture charts the 350 yea...
Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Student Lecture: Analysis III - Integration
The third in our popular series of filmed student lectures takes us to Integration. This is the opening lecture in the 1st Year course. Ben Green bot...
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marc Lackenby - Knotty Problems
Knots are a familiar part of everyday life, for example tying your tie or doing up your shoe laces. They play a role in numerous physical and biologic...
Oxford Mathematics First Year Student Tutorial on Dynamics
The Oxford Mathematics educational experience is a journey, a journey like any other educational experience. It builds on what you learn at school. I...
Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Undergraduate Lecture James Sparks - Dynamics
For the first time ever, Oxford Mathematics has live streamed a student lecture. It took 800 years but now you can see what it is really like. We hope...
James Maynard - Prime Time: How simple questions about prime numbers affect us all
Prime Numbers are fascinating, crucial and ubiquitous. The trouble is, we don't know that much about them. James Maynard, one of the leading researche...
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Hooke Lecture - Michael Berry - Chasing the dragon: tidal bores in the UK and elsewhere
In some of the world’s rivers, an incoming high tide can arrive as a smooth jump decorated by undulations, or as a breaking wave. The river reverses d...