Tom Crawford

Tom is a Mathematician at the University of Oxford where he holds the position of Early Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow at St Edmund Hall. He also runs this award-winning website and associated social media profiles on X, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube @tomrocksmaths. Tom was featured as YouTubes Creator on the Rise in December 2020. Tom regularly appears on the BBC, Oxplore Oxford Universitys digital outreach portal, and Numberphile, the largest maths education channel on YouTube with over 3 million subscribers. Tom previously worked for the Naked Scientists an audio production company that specialises in broadcasting science news internationally via the radio and podcasts. Tom decided that being naked on the radio wasn't enough, and so created his persona the "Naked Mathematician" via the Equations Stripped series where he strips back some of the most important equations in maths, layer-by-layer, so that everyone can understand. Tom completed his PhD in applied maths at the University of Cambridge in 2016, where he conducted experiments looking at where river water goes when it enters the ocean.