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The Secrets of Mathematics

Oxford Mathematics First Year Student Tutorial on Dynamics

The Oxford Mathematics educational experience is a journey, a journey like any other educational experience.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The Origins of Enigma Codebreaking at Bletchley Park

Sir Dermot Turing will talk about the origins of Enigma codebreaking at Bletchley Park, the Bombe machine and how it worked.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

How did Mary Somerville get on the Scottish 10 Pound note?

In this episode of the Big Questions podcast we are asking: How did Mary Somerville get on the Scottish 10 Pound note?
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Scaling the Maths of Life - Michael Bonsall

Michael Bonsall explores how we can use mathematics to link between scales of organisation in biology, delving in to developmental biology, ecology and neurosciences.
Department of Education Public Seminars

The development of quantitative reasoning

Emeritus Professor Terezinha Nunes, Department of Education, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by the department's Subject Pedagogy Research Group
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Can Yule Solve My Problems? - Alex Bellos

In our Oxford Mathematics Christmas Lecture Alex Bellos challenges you with some festive brainteasers as he tells the story of mathematical puzzles from the middle ages to modern day.
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Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture - Andrew Wiles

In the first Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture, in partnership with the Science Museum, world-renowned mathematician Andrew Wiles lectured on his current work around Elliptic Curves followed by conversation with Hannah Fry.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

How fast is Greenland moving?

Greenland has some many fascinating facts like it’s the world's largest island, it belongs to Denmark, it actually isn’t that green but mostly covered in ice. But did you know that Greenland is actually on the move?
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The Law of the Few - Sanjeev Goyal

The study of networks offers a fruitful approach to understanding human behaviour. Sanjeev Goyal is one of its pioneers. In this lecture Sanjeev presents a puzzle:
Alumni Voices

Dr Tom Crawford, mathematician and presenter (St John's College, 2008)

Dr Tom Crawford, also known as the Naked Mathematician, shares his love of Maths and describes how he is dispelling stereotypes to explain Maths to teenagers.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

What happened to the first soviet scientist to solve a fundamental problem in mathematics?

New episode for the Oxford Sparks Big questions series.
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The Mathematics of Visual Illusions - Ian Stewart

Puzzling things happen in human perception when ambiguous or incomplete information is presented to the eyes.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Mathematics: Navigating Nature's Dark Labyrinth

The Inaugural Lecture of the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, 2009.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Can robots be made creative enough to invent their own language?

Luc Steels delivers the 2012 Simonyi lecture and asks can machines be creative enough to invent their own language?
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Autism and Minds Wired for Science

Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gives the 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture on new research into autism.
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Autism and Minds Wired for Science

Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gives the 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture on new research into autism.
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As he retires from the the Savilian Chair of Geometry, Oxford Mathematician Nigel Hitchin reflects

From early mathematical inspiration at school in Duffield, Derbyshire, Nigel recalls his often unplanned progress via Jesus College, Oxford, Princeton, Cambridge and Warwick, before his final return to Oxford.
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Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe - Roger Penrose

What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, scientists are immune to trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy?
Women in Oxford's History (Series One)

Women in Oxford's History: Ida Busbridge

Exploring the life of Ida Busbridge: promoter of women's education at St Hugh's College
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Modelling genes: the backwards and forwards of mathematical population genetics - Alison Etheridge

In this lecture Professor Alison Etheridge explores some of the simple mathematical caricatures that underpin our understanding of modern genetic data.

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