| Mathemalchemy: a mathematical and artistic adventure |
This lecture is a visual treat as Ingrid Daubechies celebrates the joy, creativity and beauty of mathematics. |
Ingrid Daubechies |
19 July, 2021 |
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| 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, consciousness and artificial life. |
Marcus du Sautoy, Victoria Gould, Simon McBurney |
19 July, 2021 |
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| 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. |
Jon Keating |
28 April, 2021 |
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| 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 Professor of the History and Philosophy of Physics & a broadcasting legend. |
Roger Penrose, Melvyn Bragg, Dennis Lehmkuhl |
28 April, 2021 |
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| 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 that world. Can we reconcile the two approaches? Oxford Mathematician Anna Seigal provides some answers. |
Anna Seigal |
7 December, 2020 |
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| 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 do you visualise such ideas? Sure, there's computer graphics, but what about over here, in the real world? |
Henry Segerman |
2 November, 2020 |
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| 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 rich, but it can make you a better person. |
David Sumpter |
2 November, 2020 |
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| 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 understanding. Tim Harford's Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture does just that. |
Tim Harford |
2 November, 2020 |
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| 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 he by any chance use mathematics? |
Joshua Bull |
2 November, 2020 |
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| 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 and the human heart? What is the common link? Mathematics of course. And Philip Maini. |
Philip Maini |
8 June, 2020 |
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| 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 Number Theory Lecture course for Second Year Undergraduates. |
Ben Green |
27 May, 2020 |
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| 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 with a view to finding the shortest route between any two vertices. Works for your Satnav for example. |
Marc Lackenby |
27 May, 2020 |
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