The Secrets of Mathematics

The courses are all quality lectures. As someone who has limited access to the internet, I’m glad that these courses are available via podcasts. Thank you for sharing. “Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.” — Godfrey Harold Hardy. “But we should rather follow the wisdom of nature, which, as it takes very great care not to have produced anything superfluous or useless, often prefers to endow one thing with many effects. And though all these things are difficult, almost inconceivable, and quite contrary to the opinion of the multitude, nevertheless in what follows we will with God’s help make them clearer than day—at least for those who are not ignorant of the art of mathematics.” On the Shoulders of Giants 🌌🔭📚

Here’s another podcast from Oxford with terrible audio. If a legendary university wants to show that they’re up with the times by joining the podcast game, they need to understand that a podcast must have the audio quality of a radio show. Listen to NPR, or even MIT or Yale lectures and you’ll know what I mean. You can’t just have a lecture, and a guy sitting in the back of the room with a cheap recording device and call it a podcast. What Oxford is doing is 25 year old technology. Mathematics is hard enough. I can’t strain to try to understand what the lecturer is saying while trying to drive.

Audio cutting in and out in various episodes..?