'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. Discover the missing ingredient in the full film:

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:.

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-watch over 200 of our student and public lectures via our YouTube Channel. Lecture 3 on projective geometry here:

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 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.

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:

Many people don't understand mathematics. But mathematicians often don't understand mathematics either, at least not other fields. Our 3 Minute Thesis Competition. One slide, 3 minutes, your peers the audience. Here's a taster. Answer & full competition:

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 begun in 1619 & held by such as Halley & Wallis. Dominic also lectures on Algebraic Curves to our 3rd years. Here's lecture 1: 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 & 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 & 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. Online three weeks later. More info:

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 right up there. But they are. Lie Group G2:

Our apologies to Shing Fung whose name is spelt incorrectly in the captions.

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: And 135 more student lectures: