Oxford Mathematicians in the Public Eye

Below are links to articles/items of interest relating to particular members of the department.

David Acheson: Mercedes Magazine, 2005; New Scientist, February 1998
Sir John Ball: La Gaceta Digital, interview, 2006; BBC News, December 2005
Bryan Birch: Birthday celebration
Philip Candelas, Xenia de la Ossa, Yang-Hui He, and Balazs Szendroi: New Scientist, January 2008
Marcus du Sautoy: New Scientist, November 2006; Guardian Interview, December 2006; San Francisco Chronicle April 2007
Mike Giles: BBC News, November 2007
Nigel Hitchin: Emerging Research Fronts, interview, October 2005
Frances Kirwan: EWM Newsletter, January 2008; Faces of Mathematics
John Ockendon: UK Nonlinear News tribute, August 1999
Mason Porter: The Mathematical Tourist, November 2007; New Scientist, May 2005
Sir Roger Penrose: Plus Magazine interview, January 2002; ScienceWatch interview, August 1991
Endre Süli: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 2006
Ulrike Tillmann: Faces of Mathematics
Les Woods: Independent Obituary, May 2007
Boris Zilber: New Scientist, July 2007

Following the publication of Proofs from the Book by Aigner and Ziegler, Roger Heath-Brown's proof of Fermat's theorem on the representation of primes as the sum of two squares was voted by a selection of readers to be the most elegant piece of mathematics ever.

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