Teaching and Learning

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.

In his second appearance of the day, mathematical biologist Jesús Ait Idir discusses life as a young research student.

Oh, it's such a perfect number. I want to count it with you.

All part of Robin Wilson's 18-part series on the equations that add up to mathematics.

PS: we would also like to apologise for a slip of the tongue at 1.17 when Robin says 2 to the n is prime when he obviously means 2 to the n-1. However, the graphic is correct. Admin has been sacked (by Admin).

Apologies for mentioning the Odyssey (no, not the film), but what can Homer's oral masterpiece teach us about engaging with the general public about science?

At the close of his sixteenth and final Dynamics student lecture, Derek Moulton gives a three-minute summary of why Dynamics is a big deal. It's a tour de 'force'.