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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Henry Segerman - Artistic Mathematics: truth and beauty |
Mathematicians get up to all sorts. Geometers and Topologists in particular occupy a world of inconceivable shapes, concepts and dimensions. But how do you visualise such ideas? Sure, there's computer graphics, but what about over here, in the real world? |
Henry Segerman |
02 Nov 2020 |
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Parallel lines down the centuries |
For 21 centuries, mathematicians worried about a fundamental assumption made by Euclid of Alexandria: that parallel lines must meet at infinity. |
Christopher Hollings |
12 Jun 2019 |
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Thinking 3D: Byrne-Bussey Marconi Lecture |
Thinking 3D is an interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of three-dimensionality and its impact on the arts and sciences, co-investigated by Dr Laura Moretti and Daryl Green. |
Laura Moretti, Daryl Green |
05 Apr 2019 |
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Earthquakes, can we make smarter buildings? |
Major earthquakes across the world have damaged or destroyed numerous buildings, bridges, and other structures. But is there a way of monitoring the building structures to see if it is at risk of falling after an earthquake has struck? |
Orfeas Kypris |
09 Feb 2017 |
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Exchange statistics - Basic concepts |
In this talk Jon Magne Leinaas from University of Oslo reviews some of the basic ideas and questions related to the exchange symmetry of identical particles. |
Jon Magne Leinaas |
11 Oct 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
Symmetry, 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. |
Martin Bridson |
07 Dec 2015 |
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M. 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? |
Roger Penrose, Jon Chapman, Alain Goriely, Clem Hitchcock |
28 Oct 2015 |
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The Savile Library |
Lunchtime lecture by Will Poole accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. |
Will Poole |
09 Jul 2015 |
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The 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. |
Gábor Domokos |
01 Jul 2015 |
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Dealing with Frustration - Order in Disorder |
Magnetic particles can get frustrated in their interactions with other particles because of lattice geometry. Lots of new and exciting physics is involved in understanding how they deal with their frustration. |
Zhiming Darren Tan |
04 Jun 2013 |
