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The Gomboc, the Turtle and the Evolution of Shape - Gabor Domokos |
Gabor Domokos gives a talk on his mathematical journey that led to the creation of the Gomboc, the shape which has just one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium. |
Gábor Domokos |
01 Jul 2015 |
34 |
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Love's Labour's Lost |
Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Love's Labour's Lost. |
Emma Smith |
27 May 2015 |
33 |
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Birth of an Idea: A Mathematical Adventure - Cedric Villani |
What goes on inside the mind of a mathematician? Where does inspiration come from? Cedric Villani, winner of the most prestigious prize in mathematics, the Fields Medal, explains the process. Inaugural Titchmarsh Lecture 2015. |
Cedric Villani |
12 Mar 2015 |
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Why climate change action is difficult and how we can make a difference - David MacKay |
2014 Charles Simonyi Lecture with David MacKay. |
David MacKay |
04 Dec 2014 |
31 |
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Forbidden Crystal Symmetry: Mathematics and architecture - Roger Penrose |
World-renowned mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University, describes how crystalline symmetries are necessarily 2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fold, or 6-fold. |
Roger Penrose |
04 Dec 2014 |
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What Maths Really Does: From modelling the brain to modelling the climate - Alain Goriely |
How has mathematics emerged over recent decades as the engine behind 21st century science? Alain Goriely looks at this question and more. |
Alain Goriely |
04 Dec 2014 |
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The History of Mathematics in 300 Stamps - Robin Wilson |
The entire history of mathematics in one hour, as illustrated by around 300 postage stamps featuring mathematics and mathematicians from across the world. |
Robin Wilson |
03 Dec 2014 |
28 |
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Big Data's Big Deal - Viktor Mayer-Schonberger |
Big Data promises to change all sectors of our economy, and deeply affect our society. |
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger |
20 Nov 2014 |
27 |
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Medicine muddle - Encoding and Binary |
Given four bottles with indistinguishable liquid, one of which is a vital medicine, two containers and a test that can be done only once, how can you determine which of the the bottles contain the medicine? |
Thomas Woolley, William Binzi |
24 Oct 2014 |
26 |
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Dim Sum - Coding efficiency |
In a restaurant where you can order tasting plates of 10 items, what is the smallest number of plates you can order to identify all 10 items on a menu? |
Thomas Woolley, William Binzi |
24 Oct 2014 |
25 |
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Fix the Hotel Rooms - Topology |
By drawing on a piece of paper, can you connect three houses to three utilities (gas, electricity, water) without any of the lines crossing? |
Thomas Woolley, William Binzi |
24 Oct 2014 |
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The Tiny Lift - Graphs |
How can you get three people to the upper floor of the hotel if two of them can never be left alone? |
Thomas Woolley, William Binzi |
24 Oct 2014 |
23 |
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Hotel fire - Optimisation |
What is the quickest route to get from where you are standing, collect some water from a river and get to the hotel? |
Thomas Woolley, William Binzi |
24 Oct 2014 |
22 |
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Bags mix-up- Logic and Decision Trees |
Three bags contain 2 t-shirts or 2 hoodies or 1 hoodie and 1 t-shirt, and none are labelled correctly. Can you tell which back belongs to whom by only taking one (random) item from one bag? |
Thomas Woolley, William Binzi |
24 Oct 2014 |
21 |
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Late for the plane - Abstraction and Optimisation |
What is the quickest route between two points, if you can only cross the runways at a perpendicular? |
Thomas Woolley, William Binzi |
24 Oct 2014 |
20 |
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Airport security - Trilinear Coordinates |
How do we measure out 100ml of a liquid using only containers taking quantities of 75ml, 125ml and 200ml? |
Thomas Woolley, William Binzi |
24 Oct 2014 |
19 |
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Planning the tour - Abstraction and Graph Theory |
How do you construct a tour travelling between a number of different cities, but never using the same transport method between two cities more than once? |
Thomas Woolley, William Binzi |
24 Oct 2014 |
18 |
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Love and Math |
A public lecture given by Edward Frenkel, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, talking around his best-selling book "Love and Math" followed by a conversation with Marcus du Sautoy and Q&A. |
Edward Frenkel, Marcus du Sautoy |
12 Jul 2014 |
17 |
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Extra Time: Professor Sir Roger Penrose in conversation with Andrew Hodges - part one |
These two video sessions explore the development of Sir Roger Penrose's thought over more than 60 years, ending with his most recent theories and predictions. |
Roger Penrose, Andrew Hodges |
18 Jun 2014 |
16 |
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Extra Time: Professor Sir Roger Penrose in conversation with Andrew Hodges - part two |
These two video sessions explore the development of Sir Roger Penrose’s thought over more than 60 years, ending with his most recent theories and predictions. |
Roger Penrose, Andrew Hodges |
18 Jun 2014 |
15 |
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Sir Michael Atiyah, a Life in Mathematics |
In conversation with Paul Tod on the occasion of Sir Michael's 85th birthday conference. |
Paul, Tod, Michael Atiyah |
12 May 2014 |
14 |
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James D Murray, reflections of a life in academia, in conversation with Phillip Maini |
Jim Murray is one of the leading mathematical biologists of our times. |
James D Murray, Phillip Maini |
02 Apr 2014 |
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Why there are no three-headed monsters, resolving some problems with brain tumours, divorce prediction and how to save marriages - James D Murray |
Professor James D Murray, Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford and Senior Scholar, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, gives the annual Hooke Lecture. |
James D Murray |
21 Mar 2014 |
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Bryce McLeod, a Life in Mathematics In conversation with John Ball |
A portrait of the contribution that Bryce McLeod has made to mathematics over his career together with his recollections of formative people and events. |
Bryce McLeod, John Ball |
11 Mar 2014 |
11 |
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Partial Differential Equations: Origins, Developments and Roles in the Changing World - Gui-Qiang George Chen |
Professor Gui-Qiang G. Chen presents in his inaugural lecture several examples to illustrate the origins, developments, and roles of partial differential equations in our changing world. |
Gui-Qiang George Chen |
15 Jan 2014 |
10 |
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Prime Numbers - Richard Earl |
Dr Richard Earl of the Mathematical Institute, Oxford presents a talk about prime numbers. What they are and their role in internet security. |
Richard Earl |
15 Jan 2014 |
9 |
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Computation and the Future of Mathematics - Stephen Wolfram |
Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, gives a talk about the future of mathematics and computation. |
Stephen Wolfram |
15 Jan 2014 |
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The Irrational, the chaotic and incomplete: the mathematical limits of knowledge - Marcus du Sautoy |
Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about how much we can understand of the world through maths |
Marcus du Sautoy |
15 Jan 2014 |
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The Secret Mathematicians: the connections between maths and the arts - Marcus du Sautoy |
Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about the connections beween art and mathematics |
Marcus du Sautoy |
15 Jan 2014 |
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Symmetry: a talk based on his second book, Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy |
Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about symmetry and how the rules of symmetry influences our lives and the choices we make. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
14 Jan 2014 |
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The Music of the Primes: a talk about the Riemann Hypothesis and primes - Marcus du Sautoy |
Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk on 5th September 2013. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
14 Jan 2014 |
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Maths in Music: The Secret Mathematicians - Marcus du Sautoy |
Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk for the 2013 Oxford Alumni Weekend. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
14 Jan 2014 |
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Love and Sex in Victorian Fiction |
Victorian fiction is commonly thought of as treating love sentimentally and lacking all reference to sex. In this talk drawing on material from a book he is writing, Dr David Grylls, Fellow of Kellogg College, will contest such a view. |
David Grylls |
04 Oct 2013 |
2 |
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Computation and the Future of Mathematics |
Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, gives a talk about the future of mathematics and computation. |
Stephen Wolfram |
25 Jun 2012 |
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The Romance of the Middle Ages |
Dr Nicholas Perkins talks about how romance functions as a genre in the middle ages, especially about how gifts and tokens were exchanged as signs of fidelity, specifically in Sir Orfeo, Sir Gawain, and King Horn. |
Nicholas Perkins |
21 Jun 2012 |