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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 9h

You'd think all Olympic athletics tracks would be the same. And even if they aren't, as long as they are 400 metres, it won't affect the results.

But you'd be wrong on both counts. Amandine Aftalion explains. @cnrs.fr

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 3d

Somewhere on some deserted shore is a trace of mathematics.

And @jdlotay.bsky.social.

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 7d

The autumn sun has collapsed across the Oxford horizon and friends are gathered to abandon thoughts of the working day. But one of them is a mathematician.

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 8d

The nights in Oxford are drawing in and so are our students, drawing in from all corners of the globe for another term of exploration, mathematical and personal. Groups and Group Actions is one of the courses they'll study later this year. Here's Group Homomorphisms:

youtu.be/3nMTZm7VAOk

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 10d

That sinking feeling.

In our latest foray into the mathematics of the kitchen, Sam Howison is chained to the kitchen sink. Quite right.

Only another 170 or so episodes to go.

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 12d

Come fly with us, let's fly, let's fly away.

Full details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/74169

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 14d

What's it like round here? What are the people like? What do they do when they are not doing maths? Do they have fun?

Films about people who also do maths. @joshuabull.bsky.social

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 17d

Probability can be counterintuitive. Or, to put it another way, plain baffling. But there's always an explanation. Becky Crossley picks her favourite example. And tries to draw a goat.

Watch the full video (with extra maths): youtu.be/zf17UgsFYCw

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 19d

Oxford, 6th May 1954, Roger Bannister becomes the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. But what is the mathematics behind such feats? Oxford, 25th September 2025, Amandine Aftalion will tell us.

Full information including online details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72944

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 20d

What did you have for breakfast this morning? A couple of slices of toast perhaps? Great, but a little more burnt than you wanted? It often happens, doesn't it. Blame maths.

Sam Howison sets off the smoke alarm.

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 24d

Quantum is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Mathematical and Theoretical Physics master's student Anjali Waghmare is our quantum go-between.

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 28d

It's a little-known fact that Fibonacci was a keen marathon runner.

Okay, he wasn't but he could be an invaluable help if you are a keen marathon runner.

@joshuabull.bsky.social is very keen.

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 29d

Job done. Fifty minutes of writing and explaining primary decomposition. One of two lectures we're showing from Dawid Kielak's third year Commutative Algebra course. As satisfying as September sun.

Watch: youtu.be/fmZWvBGOalk

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · Sep 4

Amazing what you can do with some wood, some glue and some mathematics.

André Henriques introduces his self-made contact structure.

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · Sep 3

1 + 1 = 2

Counting. But where did it all begin? The first in a new series on the equations of mathematical life.

Episode 1: starring negative numbers, zero, fractions and rational, irrational and real numbers. And 1 + 1 = 2. And Robin Wilson.

youtu.be/3lTPSjaANrs

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · Sep 1

Some people know all along, others are less sure, even mathematicians.

Quantum doors with Jason Lotay.

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · Aug 28

Buckling. Sounds ominous, doesn't it? Think bridges. But buckling can be a positive force and is common in nature. Marc Suñé's research may enable us to use it in many more applications.

Case study and full video: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72526

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · Aug 20

It's not maths, it's physics!'

'It's not maths, it's chemistry!'

'It's not maths, it's common sense!'

A mathematician makes a salad dressing.

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · Aug 19

We put our student lectures on YouTube to give a flavour of mathematical life. There are full lecture courses there, but mainly it's self-contained samples of the infinite variety of the subject. A kind of lucky - or unlucky - dip.

Algebraic Curves 4:
youtu.be/mZaGmLhgnXg

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · Aug 17

Often our moments of inspiration are about place, where we had the inspiration, as much as the inspiration itself.

Stéphanie Abo on the moment her mathematical life took flight.

Where were you?

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · Aug 13

One day we sidled up to one of our colleagues and gently asked how they used maths in their everyday life. To which they laughingly replied: "The last thing I want to think about in the kitchen is maths".

Ah, but mathematics wants to think about you.

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · Aug 12

Binge-watching TV. Some say it's not good for us. Binge-watching maths. Definitely good for us. And you can binge on over 200 of our student and public lectures via our YouTube Channel.

Projective geometry lecture 3 here: youtu.be/_1JMnAytomo

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · Aug 10

In 1971 US President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer. Nixon didn't last but the war has, often at snail's pace. But recently progress has accelerated as different approaches are adopted. Including the use of topology.

Sergio Serrano de Haro Ivanez summarises his work.

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · Aug 8

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 94?

Happy Birthday Roger.

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · Aug 6

Some things are so mundane and repetitive we don't think about them or, if we do, we think we know all about them. But behind the mundane there is often lurking some mathematics.

Sam Howison is in full flow.

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