Mathematics: Navigating Nature's Dark La...

Luc Steels delivers the 2012 Simonyi lecture and asks can machines be creative enough to invent their own language? Professor Steels talks about some of his recent breakthrough experiments which have seen robots programmed to play language games and come up with novel concepts, w ... Show More

Inspired by Évariste Galois's attempts to express symmetry using mathematical equations, Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores the inextricable link between the physical world and mathematics. 

Introductory lecture, given by Dr Raymond Flood, for the summer school part of the online diploma in computing. Visit http://media.conted.ox.ac.uk/on01 to view the full presentation from Raymond Flood, including his slides. 

Alfred S. Posamentier's Math Tricks: The Surprising Wonders of Shapes and Numbers (Prometheus Books, 2021) has a lovely assortment of puzzles from all areas of mathematics. Some will be familiar to many readers, but there are plenty of ones I’d never seen before – and I’ve seen l ... Show More

We tend to think of mathematics as purely logical, but the teaching of math, its usefulness and its workings are packed with nuance. So what is “good” mathematics? In 2007, the mathematician Terence Tao wrote an essay for the “Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society” that s ... Show More

This is a "return to regular format" episode in one respect - readings from and reflections upon "The Fabric of Reality" but also a departure from regular formatting in another respect: I teach a bunch of simple mathematics. This is for those who might think "quantum computation" ... Show More

Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) is the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, host of StarTalk Radio, and author of New York Times bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. What We Discuss with Neil deGrasse Tyson: How a seasoned scientist maintains childlike ... Show More

This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role ... Show More

Faced with one cake and eight hungry people, it’s pretty obvious how maths underpins reality. But as mathematics gets further from common sense and into seemingly abstract territory, nature still seems to obey its rules - whether in the orbit of a planet, the number of petals on ... Show More

🎙️  Hello, bienvenue sur Maths en tête, le podcast de vulgarisation mathématique pour tous.  Ça y est, c’est la rentrée des classes. Et aujourd’hui, j’accueille dans cet épisode un élève particulièrement Waooh !, mon ami Manu Houdart de Very Math Trip.   Interview. Site Very Mat ... Show More

Sceptic starts, Impressing Ofsted, and more. Our hosts are joined by Lucy, Debbie and Alison from Langley Green Primary School in West Sussex to chat about their journey with Maths — No Problem!. Would they change anything about their implementation? How effective is the routine ... Show More