The Prime Number Theorem

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Oxford Students discuss the Prime Number Theorem.

Prime numbers have fascinated mathematicians since there were mathematicians to be fascinated, and The Prime Number Theorem is one of the crowning achievements of 19th century mathematics. The theorem answers, in a precise form, a very basic and naive-sounding question: how many prime numbers are there? Proved in 1896, the theorem marked the culmination of a century of mathematical progress, and is also at the heart of one of the biggest unsolved problems in mathematics today.

Host: Aled Walker, 2nd year DPhil, Mathematics, Magdalen College
Guests: Simon Myerson, 4th year DPhil, Mathematics, Oriel College: Sofia Lindqvist, 1st year DPhil, Mathematics, Keble College, Jamie Beacom, 1st year DPhil, Mathematics, Balliol College.

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The Secrets of Mathematics

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Department: Mathematical Institute

Date Added: 15/06/2016

Duration: 00:38:02

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Thinking ahead: displacement, transition, solutions (Forced Migration Review 52)

The new issue of FMR explores the ideas and practices that are being tried out in order to engage both development and humanitarian work in support of ‘transitions’ and ‘solutions’ for displaced people. What we need, says one author, is “full global recognition that the challenge of forced displacement is an integral part of the development agenda too”. FMR issue 52 includes 32 articles on ‘Thinking ahead: displacement, transition, solutions’, plus ten ‘general’ articles on other aspects of forced migration. See more at http://www.fmreview.org/solutions.html

Exploring the city's 'sutures'

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Filip De Boeck (KU Leiden) explores 'urban life between want and wish', drawing on examples from the DRCongo (4 March 2016)

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 15/06/2016

Duration: 00:51:48

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Plantain island sirens

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Jennifer Diggins (Oxford Brookes) discusses 'tales of poverty, fish, and seduction from maritime Sierra Leone' (26 February 2016)

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 15/06/2016

Duration: 00:55:46

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Science, stories and indigenous wisdom: is the wider world waking up at last?

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Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes) examines indigenous knowledge and specific projects across the world, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand (13 May 2016)

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 15/06/2016

Duration: 00:45:49

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The charm of 'things': ethnography and performance

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Marta Rosa Jardim (UNIFESP, Brazil) examines the role of sculptures of Hindu gods in Mozambique and the influence of art history on her anthropological research (20 May 2016)

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 15/06/2016

Duration: 00:54:07

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The certainty of futures lost

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Lucy Lowe (Edinburgh) discusses motherhood, Caesarean sections and migration in 'Little Mogadishu', Mairobi (3 Fecember 2015)

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 15/06/2016

Duration: 00:42:37

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The fragility of conviction

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Mathijs Pelkmans (LSE)'s seminar is based on 'walking with the Tablighi Jammat in Kyrgyzstan (12 February 2016)

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 15/06/2016

Duration: 00:52:05

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Profane relations: the irony of offensive jokes in India

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Andrew Sanchez (Kent) discusses why a multi-ethnic workforce in eastern India exchanges jokes about each other's religion and cultures as a form of irony (19 February 2016)

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 15/06/2016

Duration: 00:52:54

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Freelance journalist and Broadcaster, Henry Bonsu (Magdalen, 1986)

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Freelance journalist and broadcaster Henry Bonsu shares his experiences studying Modern Languages at Magdalen College and offers an insight into what it was like to be a black student at Oxford in the late eighties.

Bonsu started his career as a journalist with BBC radio in 1990, working on programmes such as Today, World at One, Public Eye, and Black Britain, before establishing himself as the anchor of the Drivetime programme on BBC London 94.9 FM where he would interview prominent celebrities and politicians. After famously being axed from the BBC for being “too intellectual”, Bonsu went on to be director and presenter of Colourful Radio, a digital station aimed at Europe's African and Caribbean communities. He has also written for The Times, The Mail on Sunday, Daily Express, and the London Evening Standard.

In this podcast, Bonsu reflects on his time at Oxford and why he wrote an article during his studies on ‘being black in the ivory tower,’ as well as offering advice to black students who might not think that Oxford is for them.

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