The Secrets of Mathematics

By Oxford University

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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 applications from medicine to economics and beyond.

Episode Date
Mathemalchemy: a mathematical and artistic adventure
Jul 19, 2021
I is a Strange Loop - written and performed by Marcus du Sautoy and Victoria Gould
Jul 19, 2021
Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture. Jon Keating: From one extreme to another: the statistics of extreme events
Apr 28, 2021
Spacetime Singularities - Roger Penrose, Dennis Lehmkuhl and Melvyn Bragg
Apr 28, 2021
Ideas for a Complex World - Anna Seigal
Dec 07, 2020
Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Henry Segerman - Artistic Mathematics: truth and beauty
Nov 02, 2020
Mathematics Public Lecture: How Learning Ten Equations Can Improve Your Life - David Sumpter
Nov 02, 2020
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: How to Make the World Add Up - Tim Harford
Nov 02, 2020
Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Can maths tell us how to win at Fantasy Football? - Joshua Bull
Nov 02, 2020
Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Squirrels, Turing and Excitability - Mathematical Modelling in Biology, Ecology and Medicine
Jun 08, 2020
Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Number Theory: Primitive Roots
May 27, 2020
Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Graph Theory: Shortest Paths
May 27, 2020
Smartphones v COVID 19
May 19, 2020
How do mathematicians model infectious disease outbreaks?
Apr 15, 2020
Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Differential Equations 2
Apr 09, 2020
Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Alan Champneys - Why pedestrian bridges wobble: Synchronisation and the wisdom of the crowd
Mar 31, 2020
Oxford Mathematics 3rd Year Student Lecture - Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives
Mar 02, 2020
Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Student Lecture - Linear Algebra II
Mar 02, 2020
Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Ian Griffiths - Cheerios, iPhones and Dysons: going backwards in time with fluid mechanics
Feb 26, 2020
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Carlo Rovelli  - Spin networks: the quantum structure of spacetime from Penrose's intuition to Loop Quantum Gravity
Jan 16, 2020
Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture: Chris Budd - Why does Rudolf have a shiny nose?
Dec 19, 2019
Jon Chapman - Waves and resonance: from musical instruments to vacuum cleaners, via metamaterials and invisibility cloaks
Dec 02, 2019
Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Quantum Theory
Dec 02, 2019
Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture: Timothy Gowers - Productive generalization: one reason we will never run out of interesting mathematical questions
Nov 27, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Newcastle Public Lecture: Vicky Neale - in Maths
Nov 27, 2019
Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Differential Equations 1
Nov 04, 2019
Oxford Mathematics 1st year Student Lecture - Introductory Calculus
Nov 04, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: David Sumpter - Soccermatics: could a Premier League team one day be managed by a mathematician?
Nov 04, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Open Days Part 3. Applied Mathematics at Oxford
Jul 10, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Open Days Part 2. Pure Mathematics at Oxford
Jul 10, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Open Days Part 1. Introduction to Mathematics
Jul 10, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: John Bush - Walking on water: from biolocomotion to quantum foundations
Jun 28, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marcus du Sautoy - The Creativity Code: how AI is learning to write, paint and think
Jun 03, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Graham Farmelo - The Universe Speaks in Numbers
May 21, 2019
Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Student Lecture: Analysis III - Integration
May 09, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marc Lackenby - Knotty Problems
Mar 20, 2019
Oxford Mathematics First Year Student Tutorial on Dynamics
Feb 22, 2019
Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Undergraduate Lecture James Sparks - Dynamics
Feb 15, 2019
James Maynard - Prime Time: How simple questions about prime numbers affect us all
Feb 15, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Hooke Lecture - Michael Berry - Chasing the dragon: tidal bores in the UK and elsewhere
Jan 28, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Student Lectures: An Introduction to Complex Numbers - Vicky Neale
Jan 22, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marcus du Sautoy - The Num8er My5teries
Jan 14, 2019
Can we build AI with Emotional Intelligence? The 2018 Annual Charles Simonyi Lecture
Nov 09, 2018
Roger Penrose in conversation with Hannah Fry - Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures
Nov 06, 2018
Oxford Mathematics and the Clay Mathematics Institute Public Lectures: Roger Penrose - Eschermatics
Oct 01, 2018
John Ball in conversation with Alain Goriely
Jul 27, 2018
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Richard James - Atomistically inspired origami
Jul 06, 2018
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Numbers are Serious but they are also Fun - Michael Atiyah
May 23, 2018
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Can Mathematics Understand the Brain?' - Alain Goriely
Mar 16, 2018
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Euler’s pioneering equation: "the most beautiful theorem in mathematics" - Robin Wilson
Mar 07, 2018
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Scaling the Maths of Life - Michael Bonsall
Feb 12, 2018
Can Yule Solve My Problems? - Alex Bellos
Dec 13, 2017
Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture - Andrew Wiles
Dec 06, 2017
The Seduction of Curves: The Lines of Beauty That Connect Mathematics, Art and The Nude - Allan McRobie
Nov 16, 2017
Maths v Disease - Julia Gog
Nov 13, 2017
Closing the Gap: the quest to understand prime numbers - Vicky Neale
Oct 24, 2017
The Law of the Few - Sanjeev Goyal
Jul 04, 2017
The Sound of Symmetry - Marcus du Sautoy
May 24, 2017
The Butterfly Effect - What Does it Really Signify? - Tim Palmer
May 18, 2017
Statistics: Why the Truth Matters - Tim Harford
Feb 14, 2017
The Mathematics of Visual Illusions - Ian Stewart
Jan 05, 2017
How can we understand our complex economy? - J. Doyne Farmer
Nov 10, 2016
Autism and Minds Wired for Science
Oct 31, 2016
As he retires from the the Savilian Chair of Geometry, Oxford Mathematician Nigel Hitchin reflects
Oct 19, 2016
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe - Roger Penrose
Oct 19, 2016
Roger Heath-Brown a Life in Mathematics
Sep 17, 2016
Modelling genes: the backwards and forwards of mathematical population genetics - Alison Etheridge
Jul 06, 2016
What We Cannot Know - Marcus du Sautoy
May 16, 2016
The Travelling Santa Problem and Other Seasonal Challenges - Marcus du Sautoy
Dec 18, 2015
Symmetry, Spaces and Undecidability - Martin Bridson
Dec 07, 2015
Putting the Higgs Boson in its Place
Nov 16, 2015
M. C. Escher - Artist, Mathematician, Man
Oct 28, 2015
The Gomboc, the Turtle and the Evolution of Shape - Gabor Domokos
Jul 01, 2015
Birth of an Idea: A Mathematical Adventure - Cedric Villani
Mar 12, 2015
Why climate change action is difficult and how we can make a difference - David MacKay
Dec 04, 2014
Forbidden Crystal Symmetry: Mathematics and architecture - Roger Penrose
Dec 04, 2014
What Maths Really Does: From modelling the brain to modelling the climate - Alain Goriely
Dec 04, 2014
The History of Mathematics in 300 Stamps - Robin Wilson
Dec 03, 2014
Big Data's Big Deal - Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
Nov 20, 2014
Extra Time: Professor Sir Roger Penrose in conversation with Andrew Hodges - part one
Jun 18, 2014
Extra Time: Professor Sir Roger Penrose in conversation with Andrew Hodges - part two
Jun 18, 2014
Sir Michael Atiyah, a Life in Mathematics
May 12, 2014
James D Murray, reflections of a life in academia, in conversation with Phillip Maini
Apr 02, 2014
Why there are no three-headed monsters, resolving some problems with brain tumours, divorce prediction and how to save marriages - James D Murray
Mar 21, 2014
Bryce McLeod, a Life in Mathematics In conversation with John Ball
Mar 11, 2014
Partial Differential Equations: Origins, Developments and Roles in the Changing World - Gui-Qiang George Chen
Jan 15, 2014
Prime Numbers - Richard Earl
Jan 15, 2014
Computation and the Future of Mathematics - Stephen Wolfram
Jan 15, 2014
The Irrational, the chaotic and incomplete: the mathematical limits of knowledge - Marcus du Sautoy
Jan 15, 2014
The Secret Mathematicians: the connections between maths and the arts - Marcus du Sautoy
Jan 15, 2014
Symmetry: a talk based on his second book, Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy
Jan 14, 2014
The Music of the Primes: a talk about the Riemann Hypothesis and primes - Marcus du Sautoy
Jan 14, 2014
Maths in Music: The Secret Mathematicians - Marcus du Sautoy
Jan 14, 2014