Teaching and Learning

One of the pleasures of Oxford is walking across to Port Meadow, open grassland unploughed for 4000 years where cows cool their cloven hooves in the River Thames (known as the Isis here in Oxford) and people wild swim alongside swans and geese. Idyllic (except for the hundreds of teenagers). But we're mathematicians, so we have other watery things on our mind.

Oxford Mathematician Josh Bull is in big trouble. He failed to heed the most important warning on social media for a mathematician: Don't try to be funny.

Algebra spoken in six different languages and a mathematical sing-along in a language spoken by over a billion people. The latest from the Tower of Babel.

He's back. Our number 1 influencer. And he's not holding back. From chasing a ball, to insect flight, control theory and unpredictable stock markets, all in two minutes. Also featuring Sam Howison.

'Prime number', spoken in nine different tongues, kicks off the latest episode of 'the Tower of Babel'. It's followed by Luci Bonatto discussing her mathematical upbringing in Brazil and its influence on how she thinks and teaches in Oxford.

Oxford term is over and panting summer is here. So what have the guys learnt?

One day I saw one cow dressed in a uniform.

A vital piece of mathematical learning. Depending where you live, that is.

The Tower of Babel - Episode 4

As you know, It's the question we always get asked. Why do your lecturers write on whiteboards when the unparalleled joys of PowerPoint et al are available? Here's Derek Moulton's take.

In 2022 Fantasy Premier League winner Josh Bull made his World Cup predictions. They were okay, but no cigar. However, in the intervening four years he has really honed his mathematical skills. Now he is 100% confident he's found the secret sauce.

That Robin Wilson, he doesn't half go on.

To infinity in fact, the topic of Robin's eighteenth and final talk on the equations that made mathematics. With an irritating little paradox to whet your appetite below and the full talk here.