Ramón's random walks, from Oxford to a Cambridge postdoc

Oxford Mathematics also opened its first-year lecture course for 2026 and sent Marcus du Sautoy after Snakes and Ladders.

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Ramón

Ramón got his video on the way out the door. The description notes, a little ruefully, that he has just left Oxford for a postdoctoral position in Cambridge ("it happens occasionally"), and before he went he sat down to explain his research: using random walks to understand physical systems. Two days old, it is the channel's busiest video right now.

It was one of three uploads. The first, and the most watched, was Lecture 1 of "Introduction to University Mathematics (2026)", part of the online course Oxford's incoming students watch before term begins, recapping school maths and previewing what the first year holds. Anyone can watch it, and plenty of people who will never sit an Oxford tutorial did: the comments are mostly thank-yous for putting it online free, along with a viewer working through a puzzle about whether every set hides the empty set inside it.

In between came "Snakes and Ladders", with Marcus du Sautoy, the Oxford professor and long-time public face of mathematics, asking what a mathematician sees in a children's board game. Last week's "Incomplete", in which Tibo explains Kurt Gödel's 1931 incompleteness theorems, is still drawing a steady crowd too.

Overall the channel ran at well under half its usual daily views. That fits the group of explainer and education channels around it, where most, The Rest Is History and BBC Ideas included, are below their normal pace; Fire of Learning is the exception, running above its own.

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The videos drawing views on Oxford Mathematics right now

Introduction to University Mathematics (2026), Lecture 1. First Year …27,228 views · 2026-09-29 Snakes and Ladders7,018 views · 2026-09-30 Incomplete25,195 views

The numbers

Here is how Oxford Mathematics' week looks in figures.

subscribers

744,000

total views

77,381,303

views per day

14,944

typical day: 36,824

this week's videos (first-day views)

Introduction to University Mathematics …

10,551

Snakes and Ladders

2,134

Ramón

3,467

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

British Council | English

937,000

Learn How to Sign

922,000

Fire of Learning

902,000

Cogito

798,000

Maxinomics

789,000

Oxford Mathematics

744,000

BBC Ideas

700,000

Suibhne

688,000

The Rest Is History

591,000

As of October 6, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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