Join Oxbridge Professor Dr Tom Crawford as he takes us on a whirlwind tour of the maths of his favourite fantasy worlds as featured in his upcoming popular maths book ‘How Many Pikachus Would it Take to Power a Lightbulb?’. Expect to learn how to calculate the insurance policy of a Hobbit, the blast radius of the Death Star, the optimal way to defeat the Avengers, and who is richer: Super Mario or Sonic the Hedgehog?

Dr Tom Crawford teaches Maths at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, as well as running the award-winning ‘Tom Rocks Maths’ outreach programme. With over 31.4 million views on YouTube, it’s likely you’ve seen him taking a high school maths exam with no preparation, or talking all things fluid dynamics on Numberphile. When not misbehaving with numbers, Tom can usually be found playing football, snowboarding, getting a new maths tattoo (15 and counting…), or more recently stepping into Rachel Riley’s shoes on Countdown.