Short stories 2 - Angie

As we know, our students travel from all over the world to study mathematics in Oxford; our current first years are from 34 different countries.

Angie clocks up over 10,000 miles each way. Ain't it good to be alive?

Wanted: talking maths in your native tongue

Inspired by Sergio in Mathematical Biology, we are making a film about how mathematics is expressed or conceived in different languages. As part of that, we would like speakers of as many different languages as possible to say how a selection of terms are expressed in their native tongue. Literally 60 second work (if you can remember the translation). Please email Dyrol.

Image: Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Tower of Babel

Short stories 1 - Sweet maths

The past isn't a foreign country on social media; it's an eternal present.

So we made Josh Bull take his exams all over again.

Andrew and J

J Cole is a very successful US rapper and record producer with 9 million sales.

Andrew Wiles is a UK mathematician with (probably) 9 million fans. 

J approached us to use this voiceover to promote his new album (out today). Andrew said yes. 

Mathematics is everywhere.

Short stories 1 - 3 a.m.

"O sleep, O gentle sleep,

Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee,

That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, 

And steep my senses in forgetfulness?"

Mathematics perhaps?

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