Can Yule Solve My Problems? - Alex Bellos
Can Yule Solve My Problems? - Alex Bellos
In our Oxford Mathematics Christmas Lecture Alex Bellos challenges you with some festive brainteasers as he tells the st... Read more
13 Dec 2017
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48mins
Autism and Minds Wired for Science
Autism and Minds Wired for Science
Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gi... Read more
31 Oct 2016
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1hr 2mins
As he retires from the the Savilian Chair of Geometry, Oxford Mathematician Nigel Hitchin reflects
As he retires from the the Savilian Chair of Geometry, Oxford Mathematician Nigel Hitchin reflects
From early mathematical inspiration at school in Duffield, Derbyshire, Nigel recalls his often unplanned progress via Je... Read more
19 Oct 2016
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1hr 7mins
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe - Roger Penrose
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe - Roger Penrose
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe... Read more
19 Oct 2016
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1hr 1min
Roger Heath-Brown a Life in Mathematics
Roger Heath-Brown a Life in Mathematics
Roger Heath-Brown is one of Oxford's foremost mathematicians. In this interview with fellow Oxford Mathematician Ben Gr... Read more
17 Sep 2016
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37mins
Modelling genes: the backwards and forwards of mathematical population genetics - Alison Etheridge
Modelling genes: the backwards and forwards of mathematical population genetics - Alison Etheridge
In this lecture Professor Alison Etheridge explores some of the simple mathematical caricatures that underpin our unders... Read more
6 Jul 2016
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53mins
The Prime Number Theorem
The Prime Number Theorem
Oxford Students discuss the Prime Number Theorem. Prime numbers have fascinated mathematicians since there were mathemat... Read more
15 Jun 2016
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38mins
What We Cannot Know - Marcus du Sautoy
What We Cannot Know - Marcus du Sautoy
Science is giving us unprecedented insight into the big questions that have challenged humanity. Where did we come from... Read more
16 May 2016
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55mins
The Travelling Santa Problem and Other Seasonal Challenges - Marcus du Sautoy
The Travelling Santa Problem and Other Seasonal Challenges - Marcus du Sautoy
The Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture 2015 examined an aspect of Christmas not often considered: the mathemati... Read more
18 Dec 2015
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57mins
Symmetry, Spaces and Undecidability - Martin Bridson
Symmetry, Spaces and Undecidability - Martin Bridson
The understanding of the possible geometries in dimension 3 is one of the triumphs of 20th century mathematics. In this ... Read more
7 Dec 2015
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1hr 1min