Teaching and Learning

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

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.

If you have published a book recently, whatever the topic, whether maths or even romantasy, please let Dyrol know as we like to feature them in the Bulletin and in the display cabinets in the mezzanine.

Here's David Acheson's latest

We are putting James Munro's excellent 'Introduction to University Mathematics' course on YouTube. In this short he explains how university mathematics differs from maths at high school.

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.

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. 

Kit Gallagher was a DPhil student here in Oxford Mathematics before going across the pond as Schmidt Science Fellow at Harvard Medical School.

Twenty-five Fields Medallists has issued a Declaration about AI and maths in the light of the Navier-Stokes news from OpenAI. Here's James Maynard and here's the Declaration. In addition 42 mathematicians have sent an open, signable letter to the Royal Society about the broader implications of recent developments.

Every day I write (or don't write) the book. 

Roger Penrose on the perils of being Penrose.

Complexity isn't big in an age of simplism. But when it comes to games, complexity is in.

Sergio gathers the magic.