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.
In addition we are also showing five lectures from Jan Obloj's 'Probability, Measure and Martingales' course. What is a martingale? Well, a horse's harness, sailboat rigging, a coat, a prostitute, and a double your bet gambling strategy. And, best of all, a mathematical stochastic process and the topic of Jan Obloj's 3rd year course.
You can watch the first Information Theory lecture below and the full set here. The martingale lectures will roll out over the next few weeks and you can watch the first one here.
All first and second year lectures are followed by tutorials where students meet their tutor in pairs to go through the lecture and associated problem sheet and to talk and think more about the maths. Third and fourth year lectures are followed by classes.