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Natural tilings: from hard rock to soft cells - Gábor Domokos

In this Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture Gábor Domokos will use the geometric theory of tilings to describe natural patterns ranging from nanoscale to planetary scale, appearing in physics, biology, and geology and will introduce a new class of shapes called soft cells, which appear in both living and non-living nature.

Information Theory and Martingales

Information Theory, formalised by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, is one of the planks of 20th and 21st century science. You can now watch eight lectures we're showing from Sam Cohen's popular 3rd year Oxford Mathematics course, part of our aim of making more of our teaching visible to a wider audience.

Kathleen Hyndman - Nature+Maths=Art

The Mathematical Institute is delighted to be hosting a major exhibition of artist Kathleen Hyndman's mathematically inspired work.

The exhibition of drawings and paintings illustrate Hyndman’s desire to see nature and the world around her in mathematical sequences and geometrical patterns. Golden Section proportions and angles, prime numbers as well as Fibonacci numbers and eccentric constructions are all used to create works achieving a calm and balanced unity.

3 students working on maths on a glass board

view across the Penrose paving towards Woodstock Road

view across the south wing major atrium staircases

coffee cup on a whiteboard table with mathematical writing

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