Richard Feynman called it 'the most remarkable formula in math'. Michael Atiyah compared it to 'to be, or not to be'. It has even featured in The Simpsons.
Robin Wilson tells the tale of Euler's equation:
youtu.be/qgfuUzoGF2c
PS: it isn't known if Euler was a Shakespeare fan.
What happens when a mathematician reads a novel?
@marcusdusautoy.bsky.social has just read 128.
Mathematicians love games. Games love mathematics. Maybe mathematics is just one big game?
Fernando Alday is Rouse Ball Professor here in Oxford Mathematics, a post held by the likes of Charles Coulson, Philip Candelas and Roger Penrose.
Fernando also delivers tasty Special Relativity lectures to our 3rd years. Here's number 3 of 6 we're showing: youtu.be/afBXRvWjMnA
Always remember the friendship paradox (STEM version): on average, your friends will know more mathematicians than you.
Imaginary numbers puzzled mathematicians for centuries. Some were very suspicious, seeing them as 'impossible'. Even Euler, at first.
Robin Wilson takes us through a story of mathematical imagination and complexity: youtu.be/yXpzbZppMI0
Your nearest Uber driver is one minute away.
We are told maths is everywhere, which is hardly a cheery thought for anyone who doesn't like it. But is it really everywhere?
Fernando Alday's student lectures are legendary. So are his introductions.
Watch his second Special Relativity lecture: youtu.be/O4CxcoawCs8
Oxford Mathematicians Patrick Farrell and Heather Harrington made Fellows of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Read more: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80940
The 13th episode (unlucky for some, prime for others) of Robin Wilson's stories of the equations that make mathematics takes us to logarithms and exponentials. Here Robin gives a familiar primer.
Watch the full talk: youtu.be/bhgUnEhXmR4
Be afraid. Mathematicians are going to be made redundant by AI. Well, maybe, but computers have always been pretty nimble at maths. There was that Turing guy, for example. And they are helping Einstein out too.
Watch Jason Lotay's Public Lecture now: youtu.be/3NCbEbopMj8
Student life is about serendipitous friendships. It is also about living cheek by jowl with friends and knowing next to nothing about what they spend their days studying. But sometimes those studies can overlap. Luckiest days of their lives?
What's so special about special relativity?
Our new series of student lectures kicks off with six lectures from Fernando Alday's 3rd year 'Special Relativity' course. Here's Fernando setting the scene.
Watch the first lecture: youtu.be/xSDsrjw7upI
New centre, founded by @gsk.bsky.social together with @ox.ac.uk and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, aims to embed a ‘mathematical modelling-first’ mindset towards the development of new therapies for lung, liver, kidney and cartilage diseases.
Read more: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80814
Join us on 1 April at the Royal Institution to wish pioneering mathematician Sophie Germain a happy 250th birthday. Talks about her life and work by Lukas Brantner, Ana Caraiani, James Maynard and Laura Monk, plus a demonstration and panel discussion.
Book your place: www.sophie-germain.com/250/
Over my head.
Oxford Mathematician Torin Fastnedge has won the Gold Medal for Mathematical Sciences at the 2026 STEM for Britain poster competition held in the House of Commons on March 17th for his poster 'Mathematical Modelling of Microfibre Release by Washing Machines'.
More: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80797
Topological data analysis is ever changing shape. We're looking for researchers to join the team to work in applied topology for data science with links to geometry and systems biology.
Find out more: lnkd.in/eHJ5zJpY
For some mathematicians, it's not just the coffee they drink, but the mug they drink it in.
1 April 2026 is Sophie Germain's 250th birthday. Sophie made major contributions to mathematics, from number theory to elasticity theory. This lecture by Fields Medallist James Maynard is part of an afternoon dedicated to Sophie's work.
Find out more: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80642
Robin Wilson's latest short talk on the equations that make mathematics, takes us to differentiation and integration, the two branches of calculus, culminating in the (in)famous dispute between those mathematical giants, Leibniz and Newton.
Watch: youtu.be/TwlbUhEvHso
You're in a class at high school trying to make sense of Shakespeare's language. Then time is up and you find yourself in the maths class wrestling with numbers in all their permutations. Night and day?
Or are you in one big class? Here's @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social du Sautoy.
What's the best source of calcium? Milk? Bony fish? Almonds? Broccoli? Kale? Mathematics?
Yes to all of them (shout-out to kale). In her eighth and final Mathematical Physiology student lecture, Christiana Mavroyiakoumou looks at calcium dynamics.
Watch: youtu.be/SglzrrdMwk8
So who discovered the Fibonacci sequence? Fibonacci?
No, afraid not (no disrespect Leonardo Bonacci, aka Fibonacci).
Another scientist?
Nope.
Who then?
Here's @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social (it wasn't him either in case you're wondering).
Russell Foster considers the importance of circadian rhythms to human health and the role of seasonal timing in reproduction and other phenomena. In science, timing is everything.
Watch now: youtu.be/_ZvxlXS9rbQ
Our work in mathematical biology spans many areas of this increasingly important field. This role will focus on combining theoretical and computational approaches to understand collective cell behaviours. And you get to hang out with the team.
Find out more: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80472
DJ Quant?
Our students are looking to the future. Or not.
Computers have long been useful for studying mathematical problems. But recently computer techniques have been used to prove new theorems in geometry, specifically related to the study of gravity through Einstein's theory of General Relativity.
Book: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80393
Robin Wilson's series on the equations that made mathematics combines history, personality and puzzles, all mixed together to produce the magic that is mathematics.
In episode 11 we're doing what mathematicians have always loved to do: drawing.
Watch: youtu.be/RsPjVwhgbww
