Abstract: About a hundred years ago, Charles Loewner introduced a recipe to encode planar growth into evolution of holomorphic maps. While his original motivation was purely in geometric function ...

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Rutger Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral Revolution", explore the moral decay and un-seriousness of today's elites, drawing historical parallels to past eras of corruption that preceded ...

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Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures will reflect on moments in history, including the likes of the suffragette and abolitionist movements, which have sparked transformative moral revolutions, offering hope ...

Not for the first time, theorists of politics are turning to the unconscious and its strange workings – repression and fantasy, libido and death drive, disavowal and displacement – to understand the ...

Professor Robert Oppenheimer explains how human communities resemble atoms in the final Reith Lecture from his series 'Science and the Common Understanding'. Show more This year's Reith Lecturer is ...

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Abstract: The use of multimodal imaging has led to significant improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases. Similar to clinical practice, some works have demonstrated the benefits of ...

The following lecture notes are taken during my year in Part III of the MASt Pure Mathematics course in the University of Cambridge. You can download them via the ...

It is commonly believed that geometry began as a practical subject, and came into being as a result of everyday concerns. The earliest practitioners of geometry developed a set of rules to calculate ...

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