Tom Crawford (mathematician)

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Thomas Joseph Crawford, better known online as Tom Rocks Maths, is a British mathematician and YouTuber. He lectures in mathematics at both the University of Cambridge, where he completed his PhD in 2016, and the University of Oxford. He is also a supervisor at Robinson College, Cambridge, where he is a teaching fellow, and at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is also a fellow by special election at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, the Access and Outreach Associate for STEM at St John's College, Oxford, where he completed his bachelor's degree, and the public engagement lead at the university's Department for Continuing Education. Crawford began media communication work during his PhD thesis when he hosted a BBC radio show. After he filmed a video explaining a particular part of vector calculus to try help his students, they suggested he start a YouTube channel to share such videos, which eventually led to him creating Tom Rocks Maths. After his PhD, he also worked with The Naked Scientists and produced...

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