Hello — I'm Antonin,
the Maths Tailor.

I trained as a mathematician in France, in the system built to produce them — the classes préparatoires at Louis-le-Grand, then the École Normale Supérieure, the country's most selective institution for mathematics and the sciences. My background is in Mathematics, Physics and Engineering.

I then came to Oxford for an MPhil in Economics, and went on to teach econometrics at the London School of Economics — now in my eighth year there — where I was named Best LSE Tutor in 2020, at a university that itself requires the TMUA of its applicants. That combination, a French mathematician's training and a British university's view of admissions, is unusual, and it turns out to be exactly the right lens for these exams.

Alongside all of it, one thread never stopped: teaching. For twelve years I've worked one-to-one with students aiming at the very top — roughly 14,000 hours of it — and I narrowed my focus to the three exams I know better than anything else: the TMUA, STEP and A-level Maths.

I don't believe in shortcuts that work until the question changes. These exams reward students who genuinely understand the mathematics and can think their way through something they've never seen. So that's what I teach: how to look at a hard problem, find the idea, and build the argument — calmly, under time.

And because no two students arrive in the same place, no two preparations are the same. Everything is cut to fit — which is, after all, what a tailor does.