Whats in a word? @OxfordMathematics
Whats in a word?  @OxfordMathematics
Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
We probably don't spend much time thinking about colleagues' mathematical schooldays. Presumably they were all a bit similar, it being maths, the universal language etc. But behind each story lies language (or lack of it). And political circumstance.

Here's Radek.

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