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The full 'Introduction to University Mathematics' course, taken by our students in their first 2 weeks, is now online. It's a manual of mathematics for those starting uni maths or pondering whether they should. And anyone else, of course. All 8 lectures:

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"91 is a much more mathematically interesting number than 90" - R. Penrose, 8th August 2022. Today is Nobel laureate Roger's 91st birthday, so here is a picture of him taken an hour ago, shortly before he sat down to tea and cake and cosmology.

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We have just put our 100th student lecture on YouTube. But you can watch them all in one minute. Or, alternatively, in about 80 hours:

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Here's a top tip for aspiring mathematicians from Oxford Mathematician Philip Maini. Be lazy. More advice (and maths) from Philip in his 1st year student lecture on Fourier Series, the latest we are making available.

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So maths at Oxford consists of lecturers & white boards? Well, yes, we walk carefully through the material. And no. Lectures are followed by tutorials where students, in pairs, meet their tutor to talk & think about maths. The Heat Equation, lecture 2:

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A maths question: what does it take to display the wonder of geometry? Answer: a pen, a board (or paper if you prefer). And Sam Howison. @WhatsOnYourMind . 1-minute films to take off What's on Your Mind.

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The second lecture in our first year undergraduate Linear Algebra course is now free to air. In this lecture, Andy Wathen is adding, scaling and multiplying matrices. Next week we will begin making available six Probability lectures. For sure. Watch:

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Oxford Mathematician James Maynard has been awarded a Fields Medal, the highest honour a young mathematician can attain. Watch James discuss his award and his work: And read more about his work:

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You know how it is, you study one topic in maths (or other subjects for that matter) and then move on to something completely different and unconnected. But then later... You can watch Philip Maini's full student lecture on Fourier Series.

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The 1st of 6 'Probability' 1st year student lectures is now available. Matthias Winkel shows maths getting to grips with randomness. In this clip he uses Galois as an example as mathematicians often do. Though not in a way you might expect. Full lecture:

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Today is Roger Penrose's 92nd birthday. To celebrate, here is his contribution to our 'When did you know it was Maths?' films in which he explains how he was very nearly lost to medicine.

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When we began @OxUniMaths Twitter we vowed NEVER ever to tweet images of furry animals, especially not ducklings, & especially not ducklings using the specially erected ramp to the fountain outside our building (home to Triton, god of the sea). So this is a tweet about geometry.

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In their first 2 weeks, @OxUniMaths students take the 'Introduction to University Mathematics' course. The content is familiar from high school but the thinking more rigorous. To help all aspiring students, we'll be showing all 8 lectures. Lecture 1:

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Mathematicians don't retire. How can they? They can't just stop thinking about mathematics, especially as there is so much they don't know. The light is still in their eyes, as Roger Heath-Brown visibly demonstrates in our latest 'Show Me the Maths' film.

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Still looking for a gift for the aspiring mathematician in your life (or inner self)? How about nearly 80 student lectures for free, including Fields medallist James Maynard, @VickyMaths1729 x 4 and maths biologist @PhilipMaini Pick & choose

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We'll be kicking off a new series of student lectures for you to watch later this week. In the meantime, tuck in to 84 lectures including those by, clockwise from top left, James, Vicky, Dan and Ben, here seen in whiteboard action. The 84:

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Which of the 93 student lectures on our YouTube Channel is most watched? Answer: Introductory Calculus. YouTubers (& the algorithm) love it. So we're showing 4 lectures from its follow-up, 'Multivariable Calculus' with @mathmowaters Lecture 1:

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Putting our student lectures online has led to much debate about the best way to lecture. This is just one way. The start of lecture 4 of 4 we are showing from Sarah Waters' 'Multivariable Calculus' 1st year course. Full lecture:

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Today, 8 Aug, is Oxford Mathematician Roger Penrose's 90th birthday. So we got down our mixing bowl, gave our ingredients a twist & 2 cakes emerged. P.S. Roger himself comments that the number 90 isn't interesting. "91 is far more mathematically interesting." @NobelPrize

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Can machine learning really do maths? It looks like it has. @DeepMind & Oxford Mathematicians András Juhász & Marc Lackenby (below) have used machine learning to identify new connections in knot theory. Full video @Nature article

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James Maynard has been awarded a Fields Medal for "remarkable results" in the study of Prime Numbers, in particular identifying how often they do (and don't) occur. Let James explain. You can watch the full interview here:

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In recent decades much research has moved from corporates to academia, including to mathematicians. But mathematicians produce models with complex equations. How do they make them comprehensible to the people developing the product? Here's Arkady. 'Show Me the Maths', episode 5.

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Not all problems in probability can be expressed by pasta, but as a staple of any student diet, it goes down well during Matthias' 1st year Probability lectures. On today's menu: Spaghetti alla matematicana. Here's the latest lecture in full:

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October 8th 2020: Roger Penrose in a Roger Penrose design mask on the Roger Penrose tiling. Almost worth a #NobelPrize .

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In 1954 Alan Turing wrote "No systematic method is yet known by which one can tell whether two knots are the same." In 2021, in a remarkable Gordian tour-de-force, Marc Lackenby reveals a new unknot recognition algorithm that runs in quasi-polynomial time

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Mathematics and mathematicians are not immune to the culture and politics of their times as Oxford Mathematician Petra explains in our latest 'Show Me the Maths' film.

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When, in the 16th century, Cardano tried to persuade Tartaglia to tell him the solution to cubic equations, he received a poem. Why? Andrew Wiles explains, part of his talk on the Langlands programme, one of mathematics' most famous set of conjectures.

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It is with huge sadness that we must announce that Vicky Neale, teacher, advocate, inspiration and much loved colleague, passed away yesterday after a long illness. Our condolences to her family, her friends and to all of you who have lost a champion for our wonderful subject.

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Would you bother getting up to go to a lecture when you can watch a recording later? We have returned to in-person lectures, but also provide recordings. Where does the future lie? Meanwhile, here's Philip Maini's well-attended Heat Equation (part 3):

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We're used to tennis players hitting balls into crowds at the end of games & golfers shanking shots, but maths lecturers? Dominic is putting a spin on things in this clip from a second 'Fluid Dynamics & Waves' student lecture we're showing. Full lecture:

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Roger Penrose @OxUniMaths is one of the winners of the 2020 #NobelPrize for Physics for his discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the General Theory of Relativity.

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How do you like your boards? Black with chalk or white with pen? We took a Swiftie boardwalk round Oxford Mathematics.

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Among the topics our students study in their 1st term is Linear Algebra. You can watch their 1st lecture now. Andy Wathen's our guy at the whiteboard. Lectures are followed by tutorials where pairs of students & a tutor go through the work. Full lecture:

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There are many days celebrating maths (aren't all days maths days?), but we in Oxford Mathematics have a soft spot for today, Pi Day, for the complex mathematical reason that Pi is the name of our cafe. So, to celebrate, we baked.

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Before you think this film has no relevance to the 'real' world, bear in mind that Lasse's field of Number Theory is responsible for the security in the device on which you are watching it. So maybe in a few years' time... 'Show Me the Maths': films emphatically about the maths.

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2 years

Did you know we have 70 @OxUniMaths student lectures on our YouTube Channel that anyone can watch, from introductory 1st year lectures, more advanced 2nd year and specialist 3rd & 4th year?

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Slog, frustration, reward, not necessarily in equal proportion. But worth it. Could be any walk of life. Numerical Analyst Kate Wenqi Zhu describes her mathematical life in our latest 'Me and My Maths' film.

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Embedding maths was an important part of the design of the Andrew Wiles Building, home to Oxford Mathematics. The mathematical crown jewel, or rather crown tiles, is the Penrose Paving at the entrance. Here is a glimpse of its construction. Full video:

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The Maths Hatter What do you need to be good at maths? Natural talent? 10,000 hours? Keep doing it until you are 18? No, you need a magic hat (or two). Master's student Adam Furman explains in our latest 'Me and My Maths' film.

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Walk in to any office or even home & it's striking how little handwriting you see. Walk in to a maths department & you'll see lots of screens; but you'll also see lots of scribbling on boards, black & white, & even on paper. Here's Becky @RMCrossley . 'Show Me the Maths', part 4.

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Our new short film series 'Show Me the Maths' doesn't beat about the mathematical bush. It gets right down to it. Down, that is, to the maths, in all its crucial, complex, sometimes incomprehensible (even to other mathematicians) guises. It's what mathematicians do. Here's Arun.

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4 years

Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Joshua Bull - Can maths tell us how to win at Fantasy Football?

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Severin was a physicist. But to solve problems in physics, he kept having to turn to maths. Time to smell the mathematical coffee. Our latest "When did you know it was Maths?' film. Stories of why mathematicians are mathematicians.

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Sometimes a whiteboard isn't enough. Sometimes you need an airzooka. In this Fluid Dynamics & Waves 2nd year lecture, Dominic Vella shows how parcels of fluid can move relative to others. No students were harmed in the making of this film. Full lecture:

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From pendulums and slopes at high school to understanding fluid flow in blood vessels to help develop new medicines. @edwina_yeo explains how far she has travelled since the schoolroom in our latest 'Me and My Maths' film. Short films about people who also do maths.

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4 years

Models. They are dictating our #Lockdown lives. But what is a mathematical model? We hear about the end result, but how is it put together? And how accurate can it be? @RobinNThompson is at the forefront of current #Covid19 modelling. He will explain. Watch here on Twitter.

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'Mathematician articulates her subject' Detail from 'Multivariable Calculus Lecture 2' by Sarah Waters, 2024. Black marker pen on whiteboard. By kind permission of Oxford Mathematics YouTube. View the lecture:

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Oxford Mathematician Philip Maini has been awarded the IMA Gold Medal not only for profound contributions to mathematical biology & medicine, but also his mentoring of early career researchers & leadership of the mathematical biology community. @IMAmaths

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You sometimes hear mathematicians talking about working in higher dimensions. What do they mean? Sofia explains how they help in the field of derived algebraic geometry. 'Me and My Maths': short films about people who also do maths.

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4 months

The rolling whiteboards cause much comment & consternation when we put student lectures online (are they paper? why don't they collapse?), and Matthias Winkel is making full use of them in the 2nd of six Probability 1st year lectures we're showing. Watch:

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Two maths questions, one tough, one easy. Or so it seems. So begins @BristOliver 's homage to the representative brilliance of the log scale. Watch his Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture, online Wed 6th March, 5-6pm & any time after. Lecture:

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It's gruelling being an @OxUniMaths student. First you write the lecturer's words down. Then you get to wipe them off. But don't worry, they'll be back when we show the Multivariable Calculus lectures. For now, five 1st year Probability lectures:

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8 months

In the days before Amazon, often the best place to track down books was the local library. Indeed, you wonder many people have been inspired by library browsing over the years. Andrew Wiles, for example. The latest episode of 'When did you know it was Maths?'

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4 years

Robin Thompson - How do mathematicians model infectious disease outbreaks?

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We've got to confess that when we started putting our short research films on social media, we thought the applied maths films would be more popular than the pure maths films. We were wrong. Here's Nathan.

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2 years

Would the number theorist of 100 years ago recognise the working practices of a Fields Medal winning number theorist in 2022? They might, you know. Fields Medal winner James Maynard on how he goes about the day job. Full interview here:

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Andrew Wiles from @OxUniMaths appointed Regius Professor of Mathematics in @UniofOxford , Oxford's first Regius Professorship since 1842. Here Andrew talks to @FryRsquared about getting stuck with a problem. Stuck for hours. Or years...

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Our 2024 Public Lectures kick off logarithmically next month with @BristOliver . Until then, how about 77 online lectures & discussions including Hawking, @jimalkhalili , @FryRsquared , @carlorovelli , @sarahlovesmaths ; and, of course, Roger Penrose. The 77:

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In this clip from the 3rd of 6 Probability 1st year student lectures we are making available, Matthias presents a pasta poser. Watch the full lecture via the link below for an insight in to our student experience. Lectures are followed by tutorials.

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So how useful is Maths in the real world? Very, of course, but what about the fantasy world? @JoshuaABull @OxUniMaths has won the Fantasy Premier League out of 8 million entrants. Mind you, he is an @IpswichTown fan. He needs fantasy.

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Following end of season checks, final standings have been updated. We can confirm that Joshua Bull is the official 2019/20 #FPL champion. Congratulations @JoshuaABull 👏

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Under 30% of STEM postgraduate research students identify as female. Our first Maryam Mirzakhani Scholar will address the M in STEM. Marta joins us in the autumn. We look forward to many more. Thanks to @xtxmarkets for principal funding. #WomeninMaths

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Our YouTube student lectures elicit all sorts of comments: - What's with the crazy rolling boards? - I knew this stuff at high school - Didn't understand a thing 17 million views later, here's our latest: the Heat Equation with Philip Maini. 1st of 4:

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Oxford Mathematics graduate student Jared Duker Lichtman came to prominence earlier in the year for proving the Erdős primitive set conjecture. In the final episode (for now) of 'Me and My Maths', he talks about loving life as a number theorist.

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Happy New Year! 2021 has a lot to make up for after 2020, so we're starting with a bang with the launch of the Oxford Online Maths Club, a new weekly maths livestream from @OxUniMaths providing free super-curricular maths for ages 16-18. Starts 7 January.

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A mathematics building is only as good as the white tables in it. The Common Room, Andrew Wiles Building, Oxford Mathematics, Monday morning, with Conrad Shawcross' 'Beacons' in the background. #maths #math

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A taster from the 2nd of the 8 lecture 'Introduction to University Mathematics' course that our students take at the outset of their @OxUniMaths life, as we prepare them for the step up from high school. You can watch lecture 2 here. We are showing all 8.

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Why study maths? Well, you could be the UK's Chief Scientific Adviser (Angela McLean, left), the Director GCHQ, the UK intelligence agency (Anne Keast-Butler, centre) or Chief Executive Citizens Advice UK (Clare Moriarty, right). All studied maths at Oxford.

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Women were prominent in the early years of Oxford Computing, but much of their story has been wiped. Now the files have been recovered & on 27 Feb, 5pm in @OxUniMaths we (and they) will be telling their story. Come along - no need to book. @bodleianlibs

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We are very sorry to hear that Michael Atiyah has died at the age of 89. An ex-colleague and lifelong friend of @OxUniMaths , he was a giant of our subject and an inspiring advocate of its importance and its joys.

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Only a third of mathematics undergraduates in the UK are female. 'It All Adds Up' brings 600 state school girls aged 13-17 to Oxford each January to meet successful female mathematicians, to get a peek at university maths & just to hang out. Here are some of their thoughts.

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Much of today's mathematics is European in style, derived from the Ancient Greeks. Consequently, until recently its history has been viewed through the same lens. A new series of posters from @OxUniMaths provides a more global perspective. Click for more:

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Three of our greatest living scientists? Andrew Wiles, Stephen Hawking & Roger Penrose after @OxUniMaths Penrose Public Lecture by Stephen

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Renee Hoekzema is a 'pure' mathematician, a topologist, looking at shapes and spaces. But topologists are in demand from across the blurry, artificial divide. 'Applied' maths needs them to work on data. Or rather, society needs all mathematicians. Let Renee explain.

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Oxford Mathematician Roger Heath-Brown has been appointed OBE for services to Mathematics and Mathematical Research in the 2024 New Year Honours List. Roger is one of the foremost analytic number theorists of his generation.

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Our students spend a lot of time doing maths. But they also make music. 'Fermat's Last Tango' is the fictionalised musical story of Andrew Wiles' quest to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. Watch the full show, Thursday, 30 March, 7pm (sneak preview below):

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How long do you spend thinking about a problem? An hour? A day? A week? For mathematicians it can be longer. A lot longer. Jon Keating explains in the last of the lectures accompanying artist Conrad Shawcross' exhibition in @OxUniMaths . Watch lecture:

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We have 16 research groups in Oxford Mathematics and the Mathematical Biology group is one of the biggest with nearly 50 members, reflecting the growing importance of modelling in biology and medicine. @SciKit_G explains his work in our latest 'Show Me the Maths' film.

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Oxford Mathematician @kfbenjamin has won the Silver Medal for Mathematical Sciences at the 2024 @STEM4Brit . STEM for BRITAIN helps politicians learn about the UK’s thriving science & engineering base. Perfect for @womensday this week. Read more:

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Why do some materials return to their original configuration after snapping, yet some do not? In our latest 'Me and My Maths' film, Andrea Giudici snaps to it.

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In the 3rd lecture of the 'Introduction to University Mathematics' course taken by our students in their first 2 weeks, Ian Hewitt continues his explanation of how maths at university moves on from high school. In this case via set theory. Full lecture:

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Some people don't like it easy. Which is a relief because there are a lot of tough problems around. Oxford Mathematician Jess Crawshaw likes things to be difficult as she explains in our latest 'Me and My Maths' film.

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Yesterday high school students took the Oxford Mathematics Admissions Test (MAT). Click the link below for the answers in 10 minutes. If you'd rather not know the answers, we understand. Plenty of Taylor Swift videos to watch instead.

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It's an old puzzle. You have 3 houses & 3 utilities (gas, water & electricity). Can you join each house to each utility without any of the lines crossing. Answer: No. Except maybe you can. All you need is a mug & Sam Howison.

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We're making plenty of student lectures available over coming weeks. To kick (or draw) us off is a lecture from Derek Moulton's 1st Year Geometry course. As Derek says, Geometry is at the heart of almost every problem in mathematics. Click link not image:

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So what is an algorithm? No, really what is it? @FryRsquared gave a lucid and rather pertinent explanation in her @OxUniMaths Christmas Public Lecture last night

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Here's a Christmas puzzle for mathematicians and non-mathematicians alike. Especially non-mathematicians. James Munro is our guy in the festive jumper. Answer tomorrow, same time, same place.

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How often do mathematicians run their models? @JoshuaABull ran our World Cup model 1,000,000+ times & knockout games 100,000 each to find most likely outcomes. We stress 'likely'. With 64 games 'unlikely' is likely to have the odd good game. The video:

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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture. Spacetime Singularities: Roger Penrose, Dennis Lehmkuhl and Melvyn Bragg

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Holography is a powerful tool for understanding the fundamentals of nature. All the information content of a theory of quantum gravity in some volume is equivalent to a theory living at the boundary of the volume without gravity. Chris Couzens explains:

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Maths can do many things. It may even make you rich. But make you a better person? Really? David Sumpter @Soccermatics thinks so. Perhaps we should listen. Oxford Mathematics Online Public Lecture, Wed 28 October, 5pm BST. Here on @OxUniMaths Twitter.

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How much of your life is spent in frustration? For mathematicians, the answer can be 'plenty'. But there are special compensations, as Fields Medallist James Maynard explains to @FryRsquared . Watch the full @OxUniMaths Public Lecture, Thurs 1 June, 5pm:

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As well as our student lectures (previous tweet) how about c70 Public Lectures including @FryRsquared interviewing Andrew Wiles, Roger Penrose & @wtgowers (not all at once). Hannah will be interviewing Fields Medallist James Maynard in May 2023. List:

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You won't be surprised to hear that a book inspired one of our students to pursue mathematics. A mathematics book? Actually, no, a work of children's fiction. Let Charlotte explain in the latest episode of 'When did you know it was Maths?'

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A mathematical epiphany. Introducing our new summer series: 'When did you know it was Maths?' Starring: Oxford Mathematicians The plot: students, researchers & professors reveal the moment when they knew that it was maths for them. Episode 1: Alicia

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Today, 10am, day 1 of term, 2nd year students ready for Dominic Vella's 1st Fluids & Waves lecture. This is 1 of 8 courses for them this term, the others being Rings & Modules, Integration, Topology, Differential Equations 2, Numerical Analysis, Statistics, & Integral Transforms.

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Start with just a sheet of paper. Fold, crumple & sometimes tear to unravel the wonders of geometry, elasticity & the art of origami. Watch Tadashi Tokieda's @OxUniMaths Public Lecture tomorrow, Wed 14 June, 5pm & any time after:

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There are a few things you need to enjoy a good book: peace and quiet, a comfy seat, and mathematics. Mathematics?? @sarahlovesmaths will convince you in our latest Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture. Thursday 23 November, 5pm, Oxford. Book:

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4 years

In coming weeks we're making a wide range of our Undergrad lectures available via our YouTube Channel, including one full 2nd Year course. In the meantime here's a range of lectures from the past 2 years including Calculus, Graph Theory & Complex Numbers.

Oxford Mathematics Student Lectures - All lectures

We are making some of our student lectures available to give an insight in to the student experience and how we teach Maths in Oxford. This playlist contains...

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1 year

Mathematics is a young person's game? Certainly, if 70 is the new 21. In our last 'Me and My Maths' film of the current series, Terry Lyons, who just celebrated a birthday, muses on what makes for good maths.

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