Season 1 wrap-up | OOMC

James, Deepak, Flora, Francesca, and Ittihad met up again to discuss Season 1 of the Oxford Online Maths Club. Links below for episodes and the resources that people mentioned!
Flora's Topology episode: • Topology with Flora | ...
Francesca's Epidemic Modelling episode: • Epidemic Maths | OOMC ...
Ittihad's Olympiad Problems episode: • Olympiad Problems | OO...
Deepak's Fantastic Graphs episode: • Fantastic Graphs and W...
Books that Flora mentioned!
Flatland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
Flatterland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatter...
More maths book recommendations in the prospectus: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/32697...
STEP database for questions that Deepak mentioned: stepdatabase.maths.org/databa...
The MAT question with elliptic curves that Ittihad mentioned (MAT 2020 Q3): www.maths.ox.ac.uk/system/fil...
The IMA Richard III talk that Francesca mentioned: ima.org.uk/16248/richard-iii-...
The curve sketching question that Deepak talked about at 14:30 is y=x^2 exp(-x^2).

[@mollymccall6108]

I can't believe I got a little shout-out for explaining proof by induction!! I was just watching and then James mentioned me haha! :) made my day!!!

[@maria6451]

Any recommendation to continue exploring through mathematics, particurly i would love a recommendation for general textbooks that covers lots of topics and different areas of maths? Like easy enough that i would understand it but hard enough that it doesnt become boring

[@OxfordMathematicsPlus]

There are some books like this in the popular mathematics section of the recommended reading in our prospectus www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/32697#reading_list . I think that you might be looking for something like David Acheson's 1089 and All That, or Ian Stewart's 17 Equations That Changed the World, or Tim Gowers' Very Short Introduction to Mathematics; each of these has lots of different topics, and would be a good starting point for exploring mathematics. That list is not exhaustive though, and there are lots more great books out there! ^James

[@maria6451]

@@OxfordMathematicsPlus Thank you sm for the recommendations and the link to the reading list! a concise introduction to pure mathematics from the link looks to exactly what i was aiming to find.hopefully its not too high for my a level maths level, but yeh thank u sm and ur whole work with the maths club, kinda sad to see it finish. :))

[@OxfordMathematicsPlus]

@@maria6451 We're not finished, just on a two-week break - season 2 starts next Thursday 22 April :D ^James

[@maria6451]

@@OxfordMathematicsPlus ooo v cool thanks for ur work again. Like someone else said in the chat I would love to have more kind of questions to the audience, maybe polls, like the lockdown lectures 3blue1brown did last year. But nevertheless I still v much enjoy the vids to find more cool stuff in an accessible way