Teaching and Learning

The Generation Game

'Mathematics is a subject that is transmitted from person to person'. And from generation to generation. Watch three generations of mathematicians in action.

Mathematics is a universal language. Isn't it?

The Tower of Babel - Episode 1

Including those below

Full list here

All over the globe, and maybe somewhere out in space, students are revising - or maybe in a few cases 'vising'. We asked our maths undergraduates how they went about it.

Spoiler alert: this remains an open problem.

The importance of communication.

A clip from James Maynard's public lecture about Sophie Germain

All the talks

A clip from James Maynard's Sophie Germain Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture, one of five talks celebrating Sophie's life, work and influence held at the Royal Institution on 1 April, Sophie's 250th. You can watch all five talks - our own Lukas Brantner, Ana Caraiani, Laura Monk and a Chladni figures demonstration by Dan Plane as well as James - here

A computer scientist walks into a mathematics department...