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07/10/2026

Rosie and Nick are just about to start their third year. Before they finished their second year, we had a chat about stuff: maths stuff and Oxford stuff.

Our new undergraduates are arriving in Oxford this week in preparation for the start of term next week. Exciting times a...
06/10/2026

Our new undergraduates are arriving in Oxford this week in preparation for the start of term next week. Exciting times and there's much to take in, but no doubt James Munro's introductory online maths lectures are top of their list...

You can watch them too with the latest now on the Oxford Mathematics YouTube Channel (link in bio). Sorry, there is no direct link, but Meta has introduced a new paid subscription for direct links. Deep sigh.

04/10/2026

Ramón has just left us for a postdoctoral position in Cambridge (it happens occasionally), but before he departed he discussed his research into using random walks to understand physical systems. Read the case study via the case studies section of our website: maths.ox.ac.uk

Graham Farmelo's biography of Stephen Hawking has just been published. The title of this Oxford Mathematics Roger Penros...
01/10/2026

Graham Farmelo's biography of Stephen Hawking has just been published. The title of this Oxford Mathematics Roger Penrose 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: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/82421

30/09/2026

Is there any game that doesn't arouse the curiosity of a mathematician, however apparently simple? Here's Marcus du Sautoy.

James Munro's online 'Introduction to University Mathematics' course is sent to our new undergraduates to prepare them f...
29/09/2026

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 (titled Lecture 1 as Lecture 0 is the first lecture): https://youtu.be/cASmou81OyY

27/09/2026

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.

23/09/2026

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. You can watch the first lecture in the course on the Oxford Mathematics YouTube Channel.

20/09/2026

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, and another on a different domain altogether. Here's Bethan on model merging. Read more via the case studies page on our website (link in bio).

17/09/2026

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 Alain Goriely.

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