Have you ever wished that the battery on your phone would last longer? That you could charge it up more rapidly? Maybe you have thought about buying an electric vehicle, but were filled with range anxiety – the overwhelming fear that the battery will run out before you reach your destination, leaving you stranded? Oxford Mathematicians are hard at work demonstrating that mathematics may provide the key to help tackle problems faced by the battery industry.

Geometry and physics.
Atiyah, M Dijkgraaf, R Hitchin, N Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences volume 368 issue 1914 913-926 (Mar 2010)

Oxford Mathematician Nils Matthes talks about trying to understand old numbers using new techniques.

"The Riemann zeta function is arguably one of the most important objects in arithmetic. It encodes deep information about the whole numbers; for example the celebrated Riemann hypothesis, which gives a precise location of its zeros, predicts deep information about the prime numbers. In my research, I am mostly interested in the special values of the Riemann zeta function at integers $k\geq 2$,

Neutrino Astronomy in the IceCube Era
Stanev, T 004 (08 Nov 2017)
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