Oxford Mathematics

You're a 13 year old girl sitting in a maths class thinking 'what has this got to say about my life?' You get home & say the same to your family who get a bit twitchy because they think a bit of maths might be useful. Part 2 of our chat with students Ellie Guha & Sienna Jacobs.

Our much missed colleague Vicky Neale wanted to tell the world about maths. So who better for the second Vicky Neale Public Lecture than Simon Singh who has spent a career doing just that. Wednesday 6 August, 5pm. Online three weeks later. More info: maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72339

Mathematicians are all the same. They look the same. They only like other mathematicians. They only like maths. They did nothing but maths from the age of two. Etc.

We wouldn't let it Lie. When making student lectures publicly available we like to predict (technical term for guess) which will do well. We'd be Lieing if we said we had Jason Lotay's Lie Groups lectures right up there. But they are. Lie Group G2: youtu.be/zROOqqJ8D5k

NGL, Jason Lotay is talking about Lie Groups in the latest student lecture we are making publicly available as we throw a little light on what it's like to study maths. Full lecture: youtu.be/z8oiwLvv8lE And 135 more student lectures: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

The 53rd card.

Okay guys, up for it? Three minutes max, one slide. The Oxford Mathematics SIAM-IMA 3 Minute Thesis Competition lifts the lid on our PhD students' research. So what are they up to? Watch: youtu.be/e1xo6qWTmoc

We like a game of cricket in Oxford Mathematics. We even used to have a Pure v Applied annual game. Anyway, to the point. Cricket sees a bowler bouncing a ball at a batter. So you'd think the most famous cricket pitch in the world would be flat... Sam Howison is at the crease.

You know the feeling. It's the end of the talk and it's Q & A time. Only the audience are restless and there's that looming existential danger. Not Q & A, but S & A. Statement and Answer. How do you liven things up?

Today, the Tour de France begins three gruelling weeks of sun, scenery & summits, but what's the key to winning in this elite world of small margins? How about appetite for risk? @img_oxford & Javi are leading the breakaway. Read more: maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72427 #TourDeFrance2025

Three Oxford Mathematicians have won 2025 London Mathematical Society @LondMathSoc Prizes. Left to right, Nigel Hitchin wins the De Morgan Medal, Helen Byrne the Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics and Vidit Nanda a Whitehead Prize. maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72373

In her Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture Erica Thompson focused on the inevitable biases and subjectivity of mathematical models. Which is a bit of a problem when you have audiences only too willing to not believe those models. Watch the full lecture: youtu.be/OpYUxZry4vo

More Algebraic Topology on offer from André Henriques' fourth year course as he gets to grips with homology. Many of the examples are worked out in pictures, as you can see. Full lecture: youtu.be/1f9D7cZSm74

It's the biggest question in mathematics. Should have been one of the Millennium Prize Problems.

Maybe we're all modellers, carrying a model of the world around in our heads. Our models don't usually matter. But mathematicians' models can matter a lot. What do they really contain? Watch Erica Thompson's full lecture on responsible modelling: youtu.be/OpYUxZry4vo

Our favourite Uninfluencer is back and he has a quiz for you. Obviously it involves maths, but you don't have to know any. And even if you do, your brain might get in the way. @JoshuaABull, over to you.

In their third and fourth years our undergraduates get to hone in on the maths they really love via courses covering many aspects of the subject, including Algebraic Topology with André Henriques. We are showing two of the lectures. Here's the first: youtu.be/YbjJ2wep8o0

Sometimes maths explains the world around us. But now and then it decides to go off into its own version of reality. For example, we can all tell one knot from another, can't we? Can't we? Sergio?