In July 2022 Oxford Mathematician James Maynard received the Fields Medal, the highest honour for a mathematician under the age of 40, for his groundbreaking work on prime numbers.
In this Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture which took place in May at London's Science Museum, he explains the fascinations and frustrations of the primes before sitting down with Hannah Fry to discuss his work and his life, from the non-conformist child to the young prodigy in his twenties and the acclaimed star in the field that he is today (in his thirties...). And alongside the successes are the stories of dead-ends and doubt.
The Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures are generously supported by XTX Markets.