Teaching and Learning

The 53rd card.

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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.

We made a film about knots which received a lot of feedback (from boy scouts and retired sailors rather than mathematicians). So we made a follow-up. Over to you Sergio.

[Knots]

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Image: Paul Klee - Circulatory System from the Pedagogical Sketchbook

A film that has saved people's lives. Or at least made their breakfast cereal taste better.

What do Shakespeare, Salvador Dali and Radiohead have in common?