Do you take your work home with you? It's kinda hard to avoid if you are a mathematician. The maths just follows you wherever you go. Sam Howison prepares vegetables.

Just another seminar on just another day...

Many people think mathematics lives on the dark side. Turns out they were right.

We're kicking off our next series of student lectures with a hot topic as Ian Hewitt's 'Mathematical Geoscience' 4th year lecture looks at the mathematics, physics and chemistry behind models of the Earth's temperature. Watch: youtu.be/zsjIR4Qd7t4

Government got problems. Climate got problems. Energy policy got problems. We all got problems. So we need a wide range of people to hang out together to tackle them. Becky Crossley describes an Evidence House hackathon (no, not that sort of hackathon).

The freedom to go for it for three years? Our Hooke and Titchmarsh Fellowships in pure and applied mathematics give you the space to follow a research path of your choice, a path that has proved instrumental in the careers of many previous fellows. Details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Robin Wilson's second talk on the equations that make mathematics stars the man whose work was studied in universities and schools for over 2000 years. Apparently Lewis Carroll for one was miffed when alternatives were used. α + β+ γ = 180°: youtu.be/pgvMlEA_Js0

Quick, quicker, less quick. Amandine Aftalion describes the trajectory of a 100m runner in this clip from her Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture. Watch the full lecture here: youtu.be/UeGXwvXqUNA

When you next go swimming, take some maths with you. And don't worry, maths is waterproof. Nathan Creighton is in at the deep end.

And so it begins. 9 am, first day of term, our first-year undergraduates gather for the first lecture of their Oxford mathematical lives. James Munro is our guy rolling the boards.

You too can write to your mathematical heart's content on our Common Room tables. And you can do it everyday for three years as part of a research group exploring connections between probability and number theory. Role details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/74283

Next time someone calls you a birdbrain you should perhaps take it as a compliment. Christiana Mavroyiakoumou is flying high.

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

Somewhere on some deserted shore is a trace of mathematics. And @jdlotay.bsky.social.

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.

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

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.

Come fly with us, let's fly, let's fly away. Full details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/74169

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

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

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

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.

Quantum is a foreign country; they do things differently there. Mathematical and Theoretical Physics master's student Anjali Waghmare is our quantum go-between.

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.

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

Amazing what you can do with some wood, some glue and some mathematics. André Henriques introduces his self-made contact structure.

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

Some people know all along, others are less sure, even mathematicians. Quantum doors with Jason Lotay.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 94? Happy Birthday Roger.

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.

Oxford Mathematician @alaingoriely.bsky.social awarded the 2025 LMS/IMA David Crighton Medal for his deep and influential insights into mechanical and biological processes, support of early career mathematicians, and commitment to the public understanding of maths. www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72714

When we put up Dominic Joyce's first lecture on projective curves, part of the Algebraic Curves course, someone asked for more pictures. Well, as they say, you can't make bricks without straw, but in lecture 2 Dominic gets artistic (sort of). Lecture 2: youtu.be/hUBMYzR4uis

Many people don't understand mathematics. But mathematicians often don't understand mathematics either, at least not other fields, and sometimes even their own field. Our Postgraduate 3 Minute Thesis Competition. 1 slide, 3 minutes, your peers the audience. Full competition: youtu.be/e1xo6qWTmoc

Remember all those kids who aced maths in school and went on to university to study, shock horror, maths? Well, no doubt they aced it there too because it was just more of the same. No doubt...

Dominic Joyce is our Savilian Professor of Geometry, a post established in 1619 and held by the likes of Halley and Wallis. Dominic also lectures on Algebraic Curves to our 3rd year students. Here's lecture 1: youtu.be/lkZ_qtP-c9I Yes, the whiteboards need a clean. But they get so much hammer.

You're a 13 year old girl sitting in a maths class thinking 'what has this got to say about my life?' You get home and say the same to your family who get a bit twitchy because they think a bit of maths might be useful. Part 2 of our chat with students Ellie Guha and Sienna Jacobs.

Our much missed colleague Vicky Neale wanted to tell the world about maths. So who better for the second Vicky Neale Public Lecture than Simon Singh who has spent a career doing just that. Wednesday 6 August, 5pm, Oxford. Online three weeks later. More info: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72339

Mathematicians are all the same. They look the same. They only like other mathematicians. They only like maths. They did nothing but maths from the age of two. Etc.

We wouldn't let it Lie. When making student lectures publicly available we like to predict (technical term for guess) which will do well. We'd be Lieing if we said we had Jason Lotay's Lie Groups lectures among the most popular. But they are. Lie Group G2: youtu.be/zROOqqJ8D5k

High summer is here in Oxford and the students have gone to be replaced by tourists and generic summer schools. But before they left, we had a chat. Here's the first video, with the guys on the other side of the lectern for a change.

NGL, Jason Lotay is talking about Lie Groups in the latest student lecture we are making publicly available as we throw a little light on what it's like to study maths. Full lecture: youtu.be/z8oiwLvv8lE And 135 more student lectures: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The 53rd card.

Okay guys, up for it? Three minutes max, one slide. The Oxford Mathematics SIAM-IMA 3 Minute Thesis Competition lifts the lid on our PhD students' research. So what are they up to? Watch: youtu.be/e1xo6qWTmoc