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Short stories

How about Roger Penrose and his obsessional walks? Or a mathematical joke about an errant dog? Or more from agony uncle Josh Bull as he tells us how to best stir your tea? All three and more feature in our latest short films which you can watch on YouTube. Roger's film and the link to them all are in the full article including Mie Gluckstad (image) on the pros and cons of random walks.

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.

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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