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Graham Farmelo's biography of Stephen Hawking has just been published. The title of this Public Lecture is the same as Hawking's 1980 Inaugural Lucasian Lecture. Graham will explain the genesis of that talk, the splash it made and its aftermath.
Details: maths.ox.ac.uk/node/82421
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Is there any game that doesn't arouse the curiosity of a mathematician, however apparently simple?
Here's @MarcusduSautoy
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James Munro's online 'Introduction to University Mathematics' course is sent to our new undergraduates to prepare them for the start of term in October when James greets them with a big welcome and two in-person lectures.
Here's the second online lecture: piped.video/cASmou81OyY
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Among his many interests, Kurt Gödel wrote a privately circulated formal proof for the existence of God using modal logic. But it was an earlier work from 1931 that upended mathematics and logic and which still applies today.
Here's Tibo to explain.
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Our 'Introduction to University Mathematics' course provides an online primer for our new students prior to the start of their first term. Here James Munro explains how university mathematics differs from maths at high school.
Here's the first lecture: piped.video/SVNdjdpRJY0
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Machine-learning models are often fine-tuned for specific tasks from a pre-trained base model. One model might perform well on a language task, another on an image problem, another on a different domain altogether. Here's Bethan on model merging.
More: maths.ox.ac.uk/node/81438
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For over 2,000 years scholars have marvelled at the Parthenon in Athens. The audacity, the beauty. And the architectural genius of the Greeks to introduce curves to correct optical illusions. Brilliant.
Except they didn't. Here's @AlainGoriely.
More: theguardian.com/science/2026…
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Jason Lotay's first lecture on hyperbolic space went down very well, even allowing for YouTube joining the crowd and now counting views from the moment videos appear on your feed, even if you recoil in horror at the sight of them.
So here's lecture two: piped.video/OQ0RTmPUNQ4
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What does an Oxford mathematical biologist specialising in modelling cancer treatments do after completing their PhD? Why, go and do research at medical school, of course.
Kit Gallagher, Schmidt Science Fellow at Harvard Medical School, is your man.
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The Millennium Prize Problems were presented by the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) in 2000. Here's CMI's response to the recent reported settling of the Navier-Stokes problem: claymath.org/news/navier-sto…
CMI is housed in the Andrew Wiles Building, @OxUniMaths.
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AI is ravenous and is eating mathematicians' lunch. A long-standing problem is solved, others are in its sights. But is this more than just a problem about problems? Here's Fields Medallist James Maynard.
Read the Fields Medallists' Declaration: mathandai.org/
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We know Pythagoras was a mathematician, but Pink Floyd?
Sarah Hart is pitch perfect in her public lecture. Watch: piped.video/yS1DFy2SnQ0
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Every day I write (or don't write) the book.
Roger Penrose on the perils of being Penrose.
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Complexity isn't big in an age of simplism. But when it comes to games, complexity is in.
Sergio gathers the magic.
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The loneliness of the long-distance postgraduate.
Mathematical biologist Jesús Ait Idir discusses life as a young research student.
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The discovery of hyperbolic geometry in the 19th century was a revolution in mathematics which continues to have impact to the present day. Jason Lotay's 2nd year student lecture introduces the hyperboloid model for hyperbolic geometry.
Watch now: piped.video/m_5Jlquo0W4
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Oh, it's such a perfect number
I want to count it with you.
Watch Robin Wilson's perfect numbers. Part of his 18-part series on the equations that add up to mathematics. You can watch them all on the Oxford Mathematics YouTube Channel.
Perfect numbers:
piped.video/shorts/t6cFj2a8a…
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Apologies for mentioning the Odyssey (no, not the film), but what can Homer's oral masterpiece teach us about engaging with the general public about science? Here's @MarcusduSautoy, Oxford's Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science.
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Sometimes mathematics gives the impression it has an explanation for everything.
Don't worry, it's just a phase it's going through.
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At the close of his sixteenth and final Dynamics student lecture, Derek Moulton gives a three-minute summary of why Dynamics is a big deal. It's a tour de 'force'. You can watch it via the link below.
piped.video/shorts/cbubr04DW…
And here is the full course: piped.video/playlist?list=PL…
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