Matters of the Moment

You may have seen our latest exhibition downstairs in the Mezzanine - colourful, mathematically inspired and, we hope, inspiring in turn to you all. Go down and have a long look.

For those of you (all?) who follow our social media we have now joined Bluesky as 'oxfordmathematics', though we are not leaving X as we don't want to abandon nearly 70,000 followers.

We haven't posted on Bluesky yet, not least because much of our content is now video and Bluesky has a small video file size. But we will.

As part of our 'Me and My Maths' series, a certain villainous character from 1893 infiltrated our films.

You can imagine the comments, informed and bewildered.

Here's a snippet from the current series of 'Me and My Maths', excellently edited by Evan. Tommy is a visiting student. 

'Meet the Head of Division’ informal coffee chat.

Professor James Naismith, Head of our MPLS Division, will be joining our coffee morning in the AWB Common Room on Thursday 23 January from 11 am. 

Please do join Jim for coffee if you can.

Lucky Jim.

In case you missed or, more likely, deleted the email this week, we are looking for volunteers for a series of short films about using maths (yours and maths generally) in everyday life, wittingly or unwittingly, or not at all.

So far we have had a LOT of cooking including bread and marmalade, but also pondering on how the plane you are sitting in is staying up there, and doing household chores in the most optimal way.

Email Dyrol (mathematically).