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The Secrets of Mathematics

A series of talks and lectures from Oxford Mathematicians exploring the power and beauty of their subject. These talks would appeal to anyone interested in mathematics and its ever-growing range of ap... Read more

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Extra Time: Professor Sir Roger Penrose in conversation with Andrew Hodges - part one

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... Read more

18 Jun 2014

51mins

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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Carlo Rovelli  - Spin networks: the quantum structure of spacetime from Penrose's intuition to Loop Quantum Gravity

Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Carlo Rovelli  - Spin networks: the quantum structure of spacetime from Penrose's intuition to Loop Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli delivers The Roger Penrose Lecture on the Quantum structure of Spacetime. In developing the mathematical d... Read more

16 Jan 2020

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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Numbers are Serious but they are also Fun - Michael Atiyah

Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Numbers are Serious but they are also Fun - Michael Atiyah

Archimedes, who famously jumped out of his bath shouting "Eureka", also 'invented' the number pi. Euler invented e and h... Read more

23 May 2018

59mins

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Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Number Theory: Primitive Roots

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 ... Read more

27 May 2020

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James Maynard - Prime Time: How simple questions about prime numbers affect us all

James Maynard - Prime Time: How simple questions about prime numbers affect us all

Prime Numbers are fascinating, crucial and ubiquitous. The trouble is, we don't know that much about them. James Maynard... Read more

15 Feb 2019

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Symmetry: a talk based on his second book, Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy

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 broad... Read more

14 Jan 2014

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Sir Michael Atiyah, a Life in Mathematics

Sir Michael Atiyah, a Life in Mathematics

In conversation with Paul Tod on the occasion of Sir Michael's 85th birthday conference. A portrait of the contribution ... Read more

12 May 2014

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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Can Mathematics Understand the Brain?' - Alain Goriely

Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Can Mathematics Understand the Brain?' - Alain Goriely

The human brain is the object of the ultimate intellectual egocentrism. It is also a source of endless scientific proble... Read more

16 Mar 2018

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The Irrational, the chaotic and incomplete: the mathematical limits of knowledge - Marcus du Sautoy

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 broad... Read more

15 Jan 2014

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Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Differential Equations 1

Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Differential Equations 1

We continue with our series of Student Lectures with this first lecture in the 2nd year Course on Differential Equations... Read more

4 Nov 2019

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Oxford Mathematics 1st year Student Lecture - Introductory Calculus

Oxford Mathematics 1st year Student Lecture - Introductory Calculus

In our latest student lecture we would like to give you a taste of the Oxford Mathematics Student experience as it begin... Read more

4 Nov 2019

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Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Student Lecture - Linear Algebra II

Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Student Lecture - Linear Algebra II

Our latest student lecture features the first lecture in the second term introductory course on Linear Algebra from lead... Read more

2 Mar 2020

53mins

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