Teaching and Learning

The World Cup is almost here and everyone has an opinion about likely winners. But being mathematicians, we have insisted on looking at the data, and we think we have found the secret to predicting results.

Josh Bull is our analyst in the studio.

Latest football results:

Probability 1 Linear Algebra 0

The Tower of Babel (Andrew Wiles Building, Oxford Mathematics branch) is a huge edifice crossing countries and continents.

Mathematics the mind reader.

How much monetary pain would you take to deny someone else monetary gain? Marcus du Sautoy issues an ultimatum.

The Tower of Babel story is about punishment. For its arrogant, sky-reaching tower, humanity is condemned to speak in many tongues.

For our mathematicians, the Tower of Babel is an inspiration.

The Generation Game

'Mathematics is a subject that is transmitted from person to person'. And from generation to generation. Watch three generations of mathematicians in action.

Mathematics is a universal language. Isn't it?

The Tower of Babel - Episode 1

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All over the globe, and maybe somewhere out in space, students are revising - or maybe in a few cases 'vising'. We asked our maths undergraduates how they went about it.

Spoiler alert: this remains an open problem.