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Oxford Mathematics

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Oxford Mathematics

@OxUniMaths

Official account for the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford.

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Joined April 2014

Oxford Mathematics
@OxUniMaths
Jan 12, 2023
The full 'Introduction to University Mathematics' course, taken by our students in their first 2 weeks, is now online. It's a manual of mathematics for those starting uni maths or pondering whether they should. And anyone else, of course. All 8 lectures: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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@OxUniMaths
Aug 8, 2025
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 94? Happy Birthday Roger.
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@OxUniMaths
Aug 8, 2022
"91 is a much more mathematically interesting number than 90" - R. Penrose, 8th August 2022. Today is Nobel laureate Roger's 91st birthday, so here is a picture of him taken an hour ago, shortly before he sat down to tea and cake and cosmology.
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@OxUniMaths
Mar 22, 2025
Information Theory, formalised by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, is one of the planks of 20th & 21st century science. You can now watch all 8 lectures we're showing from Sam Cohen's popular 3rd year @OxUniMaths course. Unless that's too much information. youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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@OxUniMaths
Apr 28, 2024
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: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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Mar 17, 2024
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. youtube.com/watch?v=Uwzl3N…
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Aug 18, 2024
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: youtu.be/Kvu1ZiD_nNI
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@OxUniMaths
Aug 8, 2024
Roger Penrose is 93 today (not an interesting number, he says), but where in spacetime does he go to get away? A short walk from @OxUniMaths are the Trap Grounds, 10 acres of wetland, woodland & grassland where you sit & forget about black holes & twistors etc. Or you don't.
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@OxUniMaths
Apr 9, 2025
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.
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Jul 23, 2025
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.
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@OxUniMaths
Sep 29, 2024
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_ox (and the pendulums).
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Jul 21, 2024
Large Language Models (LLMs), the engines behind the likes of Chat GPT, are capable (and incapable) of many things. But are they useful for mathematicians? @JSEllenberg has been working on LLMs with @GoogleDeepMind. Here are his thoughts. Full lecture: youtube.com/watch?v=08FGB5…
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Sep 15, 2024
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: youtube.com/watch?v=_sTDSO…
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@OxUniMaths
Feb 26, 2023
So maths at Oxford consists of lecturers & white boards? Well, yes, we walk carefully through the material. And no. Lectures are followed by tutorials where students, in pairs, meet their tutor to talk & think about maths. The Heat Equation, lecture 2: youtube.com/watch?v=p39xHi…
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