Teaching and Learning

And here's part two starring Ellie and Sienna from the Mirzakhani Society . If you wonder at the title (Etc.) the post was accompanied by the text: "Mathematicians are all the same. They look the same. They only like other mathematicians. They only like maths. They did nothing but maths from the age of two. Etc."

Exeter College is seeking to appoint a Stipendiary Lecturer in Mathematics. This is a fixed-term role, tenable from 1 October 2025 until 30 September 2026.

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Image: the Rector’s Drawing Room in Exeter College in the 1890s

High summer in Oxford and the students have gone to be replaced by tourists and generic summer schools. But before they left, we had a chat. Here's the first video, with the guys on the other side of the lectern for a change. And our apologies to Shing Fung whose name is spelt incorrectly in the captions.

Latest new books in the library include those below.

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The 53rd card.

Want to know what the guys are up to? 

The 3 Minute Thesis Competition is now available: seven DPhil students, one slide each, 180 seconds maximum.

There are plenty of cricket fans in the department. We even used to have an annual North v South match. So, in the week of England v India at Lord's in London, the so-called home of cricket, here's one of our big fans talking about one of Lord's quirks.

The Tour de France began three gruelling weeks of sun, scenery and summits on Saturday, but what's the key to winning in this elite world of small margins? How about appetite for risk and the danger of crashing (of which there has been a lot in the first week)?

We're looking for feedback about ideas we have for Mathematrix events in 2025-26. Mathematrix is our student-led discussion group aimed at graduate and postdoc minorities in maths. We'd also love feedback and insight from allies and people at all career stages/roles within the Mathematical Institute. 

The form is multiple choice only/checkbox questions so it will be very quick to answer and is completely anonymous.

It's the biggest question in mathematics. Should have been one of the Millennium Prize Problems.