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Oxford Mathematics

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Here are a few of our favourite mathematicians. Some famous, some less famous and one not famous at all. Who's yours?

When it comes to lecturing, there's nothing our professors can't do. They smash courses of 16 lectures with a seamless brilliance which awes our students. There's nothing they don't know. Here's the latest 'Information Theory' lecture from Sam Cohen:

We like to encourage constructive feedback from our students. Sam Cohen is particularly keen on it. We are showing eight of Sam's 3rd year 'Information Theory' lectures. Here's the first (plus feedback):

Andy Wathen concludes his 'Introduction to Complex Numbers' student lecture. You can watch the lecture, and over 100 more of varying degrees of complexity and fun, on our YouTube Channel:

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Roger Penrose is 95 today. The fire still burns bright.

For some mathematicians, it's not just the coffee they drink, but the mug they drink it in.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 94? Happy Birthday Roger.

What percentage of a mathematician's time is spent in a state of frustration? Or, indeed, any scientist? 10%? 30%? Higher? Oxford Mathematician Torkel Loman puts a number on it.

If you are in Oxford, walk across to Port Meadow, open grassland unploughed for 4000 years where cows cool their cloven hooves in the River Thames (known as the Isis in Oxford) &amp; people wild swim alongside swans &amp; geese. Idyllic. But we're mathematicians, so we have a question.

One thing you can guarantee about social media is that if you want 20 million views of your films, don't put up clips from student maths lectures. Unless the lecturer is Philip Maini. He's back with 3 lectures on Mathematical Biology. 40 million? No 1:

A computer scientist walks into a mathematics department... AI is in Frankenstein mode, worrying about the monster it has created. Even the tech bros seem terrified. So, where does mathematics fit in to AI's future?

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:

The World Cup is almost here and everyone has an opinion about likely winners. But being mathematicians, we have insisted on looking at the data, and we think we have found the secret to predicting results. Joshua Bull is our analyst in the studio.

Remember all those kids who aced maths in school and went on to university to study, shock horror, maths? Well, no doubt they aced it there too because it was just more of the same. No doubt...

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.

When Roger Penrose goes for a walk you might expect him to be thinking about cosmology etc. But he isn't. At least not always. Sometimes he is thinking about the walk itself. And the mathematics of it. Because Roger has his obsessions. Like lots of us.

Artificial Intelligence may not be up for the Fields Medal any time soon, but it may act as an intermediary for mathematicians working on proofs. However, something is lacking for AI to get down to it. Terry Tao looks to the positives. Full lecture:

It's tough, isn't? Probably one of the biggest challenges for mathematicians of all ages. Just how do you talk about your subject to friends and family who aren't mathematical? Our crack team of undergraduates ponder.

The professor and the pendulums. We know what will happen when one pendulum swings. But two? 'Oxford Mathematicians and their Toys', episode three, starring Jon Chapman (and the pendulums).

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.

Pure mathematicians tell us that our 30 billion or so credit, debit and prepaid cards are only safe because of number theory, and prime numbers in particular. But how? James Maynard takes your details in his Sophie Germain lecture. Watch it all:

Algebra spoken in six different languages and a mathematical sing-along in a language spoken by over a billion people. The latest from the Tower of Babel.

If you are in Oxford, walk across to Port Meadow, open grassland unploughed for 4000 years where cows cool their cloven hooves in the River Thames (known as the Isis in Oxford) & people wild swim alongside swans & geese. Idyllic. But we're mathematicians, so we have a question.