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A series of talks and lectures from Oxford Mathematicians exploring the power and beauty of their subject. These talks would appeal to anyone interested in mathematics and its ever-growing range of applications from medicine to economics and beyond.

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1 CleanVideoCan we build AI with Emotional Intelligence? The 2018 Annual Charles Simonyi Lecture Marcus du Sautoy and Professor Rosalind Picard for 2018's annual Simonyi Lecture: Can we build AI with Emotional Intelligence? 9 11 2018 Free View in iTunes

2 CleanVideoRoger Penrose in conversation with Hannah Fry - Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures In our Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture Roger Penrose in conversation with Hannah Fry reveals his latest research, a veritable chain reaction of universes, which he says has been backed by evidence of events that took place before the Big Bang. 6 11 2018 Free View in iTunes

3 CleanVideoOxford Mathematics and the Clay Mathematics Institute Public Lectures: Roger Penrose - Eschermatics In this lecture Roger Penrose uses M.C Escher's work to illustrate and explain important mathematical ideas and their connections to the visual arts. 1 10 2018 Free View in iTunes

4 CleanVideoJohn Ball in conversation with Alain Goriely John Ball is retiring as Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Oxford oldest Scientific Chair. In this interview he charts the journey of the Applied Mathematician.as the subject has developed over the last 50 years. 27 7 2018 Free View in iTunes

5 CleanVideoOxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Richard James - Atomistically inspired origami The World population is growing at about 80 million per year. As time goes by, there is necessarily less space per person. Perhaps this is why the scientific community seems to be obsessed with folding things. 6 7 2018 Free View in iTunes

6 CleanVideoOxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Numbers are Serious but they are also Fun - Michael Atiyah Archimedes, who famously jumped out of his bath shouting "Eureka", also 'invented' the number pi. Euler invented e and had fun with his formula e^(2 pi i) = 1. The world is full of important numbers waiting to be invented. Why not have a go? 23 5 2018 Free View in iTunes

7 CleanVideoOxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Can Mathematics Understand the Brain?' - Alain Goriely The human brain is the object of the ultimate intellectual egocentrism. It is also a source of endless scientific problems and an organ of such complexity that it is not clear that a mathematical approach is even possible, despite many attempts. 16 3 2018 Free View in iTunes

8 CleanVideoOxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Euler’s pioneering equation: "the most beautiful theorem in mathematics" - Robin Wilson Euler’s equation, the ‘most beautiful equation in mathematics’, startlingly connects the five most important constants in the subject: 1, 0, π, e and i. Central to both mathematics and physics. So what is this equation – and why is it pioneerin 7 3 2018 Free View in iTunes

9 CleanVideoOxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Scaling the Maths of Life - Michael Bonsall Michael Bonsall explores how we can use mathematics to link between scales of organisation in biology, delving in to developmental biology, ecology and neurosciences. 12 2 2018 Free View in iTunes

10 CleanVideoCan Yule Solve My Problems? - Alex Bellos In our Oxford Mathematics Christmas Lecture Alex Bellos challenges you with some festive brainteasers as he tells the story of mathematical puzzles from the middle ages to modern day. 13 12 2017 Free View in iTunes

11 CleanVideoOxford Mathematics London Public Lecture - Andrew Wiles In the first Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture, in partnership with the Science Museum, world-renowned mathematician Andrew Wiles lectured on his current work around Elliptic Curves followed by conversation with Hannah Fry. 6 12 2017 Free View in iTunes

12 CleanVideoThe Seduction of Curves: The Lines of Beauty That Connect Mathematics, Art and The Nude - Allan McRobie Allan McRobie explains how the key to understanding the language of curves is Rene Thom’s Catastrophe Theory, and how remarkably the best place to learn that language is perhaps in the life drawing class. 16 11 2017 Free View in iTunes

13 CleanVideoMaths v Disease - Julia Gog Can mathematics really help us in our fight against infectious disease? Join Julia Gog as we explore exciting current research areas where mathematics is being used to study pandemics, viruses and everything in between. 13 11 2017 Free View in iTunes

14 CleanVideoClosing the Gap: the quest to understand prime numbers - Vicky Neale Prime numbers have intrigued, inspired and infuriated mathematicians for millennia and yet mathematicians' difficulty with answering simple questions about them reveals their depth and subtlety. 24 10 2017 Free View in iTunes

15 CleanVideoThe Law of the Few - Sanjeev Goyal The study of networks offers a fruitful approach to understanding human behaviour. Sanjeev Goyal is one of its pioneers. In this lecture Sanjeev presents a puzzle: 4 7 2017 Free View in iTunes

16 CleanVideoThe Sound of Symmetry - Marcus du Sautoy Symmetry has played a role both for composers and in the creation of musical instruments. 24 5 2017 Free View in iTunes

17 CleanVideoThe Butterfly Effect - What Does it Really Signify? - Tim Palmer Tim Palmer discusses Ed Lorenz the man and his work, and compares and contrasts the meaning of the 'Butterfly Effect' as most people understand it today, and as Lorenz himself intended it to mean. 18 5 2017 Free View in iTunes

18 CleanVideoStatistics: Why the Truth Matters - Tim Harford Tim Harford, Financial Times columnist and presenter of Radio 4's "More or Less", argues that politicians, businesses and even charities have been poisoning the value of statistics and data. 14 2 2017 Free View in iTunes

19 CleanVideoThe Mathematics of Visual Illusions - Ian Stewart Puzzling things happen in human perception when ambiguous or incomplete information is presented to the eyes. 5 1 2017 Free View in iTunes

20 CleanVideoHow can we understand our complex economy? - J. Doyne Farmer We are getting better at predicting things about our environment - the impact of climate change for example. But what about predicting our collective effect on ourselves? 10 11 2016 Free View in iTunes

21 CleanVideoAutism and Minds Wired for Science Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gives the 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture on new research into autism. 31 10 2016 Free View in iTunes

22 CleanVideoAs he retires from the the Savilian Chair of Geometry, Oxford Mathematician Nigel Hitchin reflects From early mathematical inspiration at school in Duffield, Derbyshire, Nigel recalls his often unplanned progress via Jesus College, Oxford, Princeton, Cambridge and Warwick, before his final return to Oxford. 19 10 2016 Free View in iTunes

23 CleanVideoFashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe - Roger Penrose What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, scientists are immune to trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? 19 10 2016 Free View in iTunes

24 CleanVideoRoger Heath-Brown a Life in Mathematics Roger Heath-Brown is one of Oxford's foremost mathematicians. 17 9 2016 Free View in iTunes

25 CleanVideoModelling genes: the backwards and forwards of mathematical population genetics - Alison Etheridge In this lecture Professor Alison Etheridge explores some of the simple mathematical caricatures that underpin our understanding of modern genetic data. 6 7 2016 Free View in iTunes

26 CleanVideoWhat We Cannot Know - Marcus du Sautoy Science is giving us unprecedented insight into the big questions that have challenged humanity. 16 5 2016 Free View in iTunes

27 CleanVideoThe Travelling Santa Problem and Other Seasonal Challenges - Marcus du Sautoy The Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture 2015 examined an aspect of Christmas not often considered: the mathematics. 18 12 2015 Free View in iTunes

28 CleanVideoSymmetry, Spaces and Undecidability - Martin Bridson The understanding of the possible geometries in dimension 3 is one of the triumphs of 20th century mathematics. In this talk Martin Bridson explains why such an understanding is impossible in higher dimensions. 7 12 2015 Free View in iTunes

29 CleanVideoPutting the Higgs Boson in its Place Professor Melissa Franklin talks about her experiences working towards the discovery of the Higgs Boson and her work today at the Large Hadron Collider 16 11 2015 Free View in iTunes

30 CleanVideoM. C. Escher - Artist, Mathematician, Man M.C. Escher is known as the mathematician's (and hippie's) favourite artist. But why? And was Escher, a man who claimed he knew no mathematics, really a mathematical genius? 28 10 2015 Free View in iTunes

31 CleanVideoThe Gomboc, the Turtle and the Evolution of Shape - Gabor Domokos Gabor Domokos gives a talk on his mathematical journey that led to the creation of the Gomboc, the shape which has just one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium. 1 7 2015 Free View in iTunes

32 CleanVideoBirth of an Idea: A Mathematical Adventure - Cedric Villani What goes on inside the mind of a mathematician? Where does inspiration come from? Cedric Villani, winner of the most prestigious prize in mathematics, the Fields Medal, explains the process. Inaugural Titchmarsh Lecture 2015. 12 3 2015 Free View in iTunes

33 CleanVideoWhy climate change action is difficult and how we can make a difference - David MacKay 2014 Charles Simonyi Lecture with David MacKay. 4 12 2014 Free View in iTunes

34 CleanVideoForbidden Crystal Symmetry: Mathematics and architecture - Roger Penrose World-renowned mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University, describes how crystalline symmetries are necessarily 2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fold, or 6-fold. 4 12 2014 Free View in iTunes

35 CleanVideoWhat Maths Really Does: From modelling the brain to modelling the climate - Alain Goriely How has mathematics emerged over recent decades as the engine behind 21st century science? Alain Goriely looks at this question and more. 4 12 2014 Free View in iTunes

36 CleanVideoThe History of Mathematics in 300 Stamps - Robin Wilson The entire history of mathematics in one hour, as illustrated by around 300 postage stamps featuring mathematics and mathematicians from across the world. 3 12 2014 Free View in iTunes

37 CleanVideoBig Data's Big Deal - Viktor Mayer-Schonberger Big Data promises to change all sectors of our economy, and deeply affect our society. 20 11 2014 Free View in iTunes

38 CleanVideoLove and Math A public lecture given by Edward Frenkel, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, talking around his best-selling book "Love and Math" followed by a conversation with Marcus du Sautoy and Q&A. 12 7 2014 Free View in iTunes

39 CleanVideoExtra Time: Professor Sir Roger Penrose in conversation with Andrew Hodges - part one These two video sessions explore the development of Sir Roger Penrose's thought over more than 60 years, ending with his most recent theories and predictions. 18 6 2014 Free View in iTunes

40 CleanVideoExtra Time: Professor Sir Roger Penrose in conversation with Andrew Hodges - part two These two video sessions explore the development of Sir Roger Penrose’s thought over more than 60 years, ending with his most recent theories and predictions. 18 6 2014 Free View in iTunes

41 CleanVideoSir Michael Atiyah, a Life in Mathematics In conversation with Paul Tod on the occasion of Sir Michael's 85th birthday conference. 12 5 2014 Free View in iTunes

42 CleanVideoJames D Murray, reflections of a life in academia, in conversation with Phillip Maini Jim Murray is one of the leading mathematical biologists of our times. 2 4 2014 Free View in iTunes

43 CleanVideoWhy there are no three-headed monsters, resolving some problems with brain tumours, divorce prediction and how to save marriages - James D Murray Professor James D Murray, Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford and Senior Scholar, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, gives the annual Hooke Lecture. 21 3 2014 Free View in iTunes

44 CleanVideoBryce McLeod, a Life in Mathematics In conversation with John Ball A portrait of the contribution that Bryce McLeod has made to mathematics over his career together with his recollections of formative people and events. 11 3 2014 Free View in iTunes

45 CleanVideoPartial Differential Equations: Origins, Developments and Roles in the Changing World - Gui-Qiang George Chen Professor Gui-Qiang G. Chen presents in his inaugural lecture several examples to illustrate the origins, developments, and roles of partial differential equations in our changing world. 15 1 2014 Free View in iTunes

46 CleanVideoPrime Numbers - Richard Earl Dr Richard Earl of the Mathematical Institute, Oxford presents a talk about prime numbers. What they are and their role in internet security. 15 1 2014 Free View in iTunes

47 CleanVideoComputation and the Future of Mathematics - Stephen Wolfram Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, gives a talk about the future of mathematics and computation. 15 1 2014 Free View in iTunes

48 CleanVideoThe Irrational, the chaotic and incomplete: the mathematical limits of knowledge - Marcus du Sautoy Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about how much we can understand of the world through maths 15 1 2014 Free View in iTunes

49 CleanVideoThe Secret Mathematicians: the connections between maths and the arts - Marcus du Sautoy Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about the connections beween art and mathematics 15 1 2014 Free View in iTunes

50 CleanVideoSymmetry: a talk based on his second book, Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about symmetry and how the rules of symmetry influences our lives and the choices we make. 14 1 2014 Free View in iTunes

51 CleanVideoThe Music of the Primes: a talk about the Riemann Hypothesis and primes - Marcus du Sautoy Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk on 5th September 2013. 14 1 2014 Free View in iTunes

52 CleanVideoMaths in Music: The Secret Mathematicians - Marcus du Sautoy Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk for the 2013 Oxford Alumni Weekend. 14 1 2014 Free View in iTunes

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