Oxford Mathematics

Official account for the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford.

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The World Cup is almost here and everyone has an opinion about likely winners. But being mathematicians, we have insisted on looking at the data, and we think we have found the secret to predicting results.

@JoshuaABull is our analyst in the studio.

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Latest football results:

Probability 1 Linear Algebra 0

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Fractals. Ah yes, the darlings of artists, computers and snowflakes (no, not that sort). Robin Wilson is our artist-in-residence as he takes us on a short tour of fractal history. Including, er, an alpenhorn player?

Watch Robin's talk:
https://t.co/uhYlNrQo0b

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The Tower of Babel (Andrew Wiles Building, Oxford Mathematics branch) is a huge edifice crossing countries and continents.

The Tower of Babel - Episode 3

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Counting the enemy, consulting the almanac and imagining a dagger. Paul Glendinning applies a mathematician's lens to the world which Shakespeare created.

We are such stuff as mathematical dreams are made on.

Watch now: https://t.co/v0croxiFy4

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Mathematics the mind reader.

How much monetary pain would you take to deny someone else monetary gain? @MarcusduSautoy issues an ultimatum.

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Oxford Mathematician Francis Brown elected Fellow of @royalsociety (FRS).

Francis works in algebraic geometry and mathematical physics with research ranging from pure mathematics to methods for precision calculations in high-energy particle physics.

https://t.co/C6Kqgvu6Bj

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The Tower of Babel story is about punishment. For its arrogant, sky-reaching tower, humanity is condemned to speak in many tongues.

For our mathematicians, the Tower of Babel is an inspiration.

The Tower of Babel - Episode 2

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The Generation Game

'Mathematics is a subject that is transmitted from person to person'. And from generation to generation. Watch three generations of mathematicians in action: https://t.co/kyz6IKMAIm

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We've come to the last of Fernando Alday's 6 lectures on Special Relativity that we're showing. But fear not, for glad tidings of great lectures we bring, with full courses on Dynamics and Financial Derivatives lined up. Here comes the summer.

Lecture 6: https://t.co/nmIpsLkgEa

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Mathematics is a universal language. Isn't it?

The Tower of Babel - Episode 1

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When the post of Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science was created by @UniofOxford, presumably the first requirement was 'know lots of science'. But how much? All of it?

@MarcusduSautoy is the current holder of the post. How much does he know?

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Over a course of 16 lectures, attendance can fall. There's always a recording, life is busy, & anyway you'll have a tutorial or class to really get on it. But for many, maths in action is still where it's at.

Fernando Alday, Special Relativity, lecture 5: https://t.co/BRyRo6254h

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All over the globe, and maybe somewhere out in space, students are revising - or maybe in a few cases 'vising'. We asked our maths undergraduates how they went about it.

Spoiler alert: this remains an open problem.

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To find out why Sophie Germain was, and is, an important mathematician, you can now watch all the talks from her 250th birthday bash.

Starring in order of appearance: Lukas Brantner, Ana Caraiani, Dan Plane, Laura Monk and James Maynard.

Watch: https://t.co/RBVTYDA1g3

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Communication skills are not always the first thing you associate with mathematicians. But they are crucial if mathematicians are going to convince the biologists, medics and others with whom they work, that mathematical models are truly useful.

Here's Stéphanie.

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It has been an inspiring spring in Oxford with the full flush of blossom now preparing to give way to the intense green of summer.

But who cares about that when you can watch Robin Wilson on the Basel problem and the Riemann hypothesis?

Watch: https://t.co/Gu3OFBYwhI

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Pure mathematicians tell us that our 30 billion or so credit, debit and prepaid cards are only safe because of number theory, and prime numbers in particular. But how?

James Maynard takes your details in his Sophie Germain lecture. Watch it all: https://t.co/uIfMAn9a8I

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Who are Field's Medallist James Maynard's heroes?

Sophie Germain is one. Sophie is 250 this month and her work on prime numbers still matters as James explain in his public lecture.

Watch from 5 pm UK today: https://t.co/uIfMAn9a8I

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First it was space, time & relativity before Einstein; then the Maxwell's equations, followed by the Michelson-Morley Experiment. Today it's the postulates of special relativity.

What are we on about? Fernando Alday's Special Relativity course, of course: https://t.co/ix4h9uvMUN