Invitations
Watch the places before you apply to them. Vision first, forms second.
On film
Cambridge
- The Theory of Everything (2014). Hawking's Cambridge, the gold standard campus film.
- The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015). Ramanujan at Trinity; devotion to mathematics on screen.
- Grantchester (series). the meadows you will cycle past.
- Maurice (1987). old Cambridge, filmed in the colleges.
Oxford
- My Oxford Year (2025). the modern Oxford fantasy, filmed on location.
- Saltburn (2023). Oxford's first act, sharp and strange.
- The Riot Club (2014). the cautionary tale.
- Shadowlands (1993). C.S. Lewis's Oxford, the tender version.
- The History Boys (2006). the getting-in story itself.
- Harry Potter (2001 to present). the Bodleian and Divinity School are Hogwarts; you will sit exams where the infirmary was.
London (Imperial, LSE, UCL, KCL, QMUL)
- About Time (2013). London as a place to be young in.
- The Imitation Game (2014). Turing, the original quant.
- Love Actually (2003). the city in winter, for morale.
Everywhere else
- A Beautiful Mind (2001). not the UK, but the reason half of us wanted mathematics.
- Good Will Hunting (1997). the blackboard scene that launched a thousand degrees.
- X+Y / A Brilliant Young Mind (2014). British maths olympiad life, honestly told.
On YouTube
- Ibz Mo. Cambridge access vlogs, the honest version.
- Vee Kativhu. Oxford study vlogs and access work.
- Ali Abdaal. the Cambridge years, before the productivity empire.
- Eve Bennett. Oxford day-in-the-life.
- Jack Edwards. Durham, then the bookshelf.
- Ruby Granger. the romance of the library.
- Tom Rocks Maths. an actual Oxford maths tutor solving things.
- 3Blue1Brown. what mathematics looks like when it's beautiful.
- Zach Star. what you can do with a maths degree.
- QuantPy and Dimitri Bianco. the quant path, unfiltered.
- Aman Manazir. quant interviews demystified.
Every one of these is an invitation. RSVP with an application.