The Numberphile Podcast
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The Numberphile Podcast
Interviews with people who love numbers and mathematics. Hosted by Brady Haran, maker of the Numberphile series on YouTube.
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Numberphile - with Brady Haran
Brady answers all manner of viewer questions about Numberphile - and a few unrelated topics too.
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The Indecisive Statistics Professor - with Chris Oates
Chris Oates is a professor of statistics at Newcastle University - he got there despite being somewhat indecisive about his career.
This episode...
Counting Crayons - with Po-Ling Loh
Po-Ling Loh is an American theoretical statistician based at the University of Cambridge. She discusses her childhood, choosing a university, and her...
BREAKING NEWS: The Largest Known Prime Number
There’s a new largest known prime number and we speak to all the key players, including the discoverer Luke Durant. Also featured in the podcast are G...
The Secret Math Journal - with Ellen Eischen
Ellen Eischen is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon. Here she discusses creativity, collaboration - and a “secret” journal she has...
Winnie the Math Whiz - with Danica McKellar
Catch a video version of this episode at: https://youtu.be/xMAiBBxQGZI
Danica McKellar is best-known for portraying girl-next-door Winnie...
The Hyper-Curious Billionaire - Jim Simons (1938-2024)
This podcast marks the passing of James Harris Simons, better-known as Jim.
The interviewees are John Ewing, David Eisenbud and Andrew Millis.
A Very Bad Estimator - with Donald Knuth
Donald Knuth is unquestionably a legend of computer science and mathematics - but he is bad at estimation and grew up with a “rhinoceros attitude”.
The Math of Movies - with Walt Hickey
Data journalist Walt Hickey looks deep into the numbers behind movies, TV shows, and all types of popular culture.
Walt’s new book is You Are Wh...
Finding Your Place - with Federico Ardila
Federico Ardila is a combinatorialist at San Francisco State University. He’s Colombian and in this episode he talks candidly about the struggles and...
Yes, I accept the Fields Medal - with James Maynard
Oxford mathematician James Maynard explains why he feared accidentally refusing the most famous prize in mathematics.
Watch this full int...
An A-Class Reject - with Ed Copeland
He dreamed of being a great cricketer - but his love for equations led Ed Copeland to a career in theoretical physics.
Check out opportunities w...
A Chain of Chance - with Michael Merrifield
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Finding a Path - with Tatiana Toro
Professor Toro is the new director of the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SL Math).
SL Math website - https://www.msri.org...
An Educated Adult - with Tadashi Tokieda
Tadashi at Stanford - https://mathematics.stanford.edu/people/tadashi-tokieda
Tadashi videos on Numberphile - https://www.youtube.com/pla...
The Orchid Room and Cancer - with Hannah Fry
Professor Hannah Fry discusses her cervical cancer diagnosis - and subsequent attempt to make sense of it all.
Making Sense of Cancer - S...
A Passion for Big Numbers (and Liverpool FC) - with Tony Padilla
Tony Padilla is known on Numberphile for tackling the big numbers... But by day he's a cosmologist at the University of Nottingham. Tony's also a life...
The First and Last Digits of Pi
Three One Four: A Number of Notes - http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pi/piday2022/
The project is a collaboration between Martin, Gregory Coles, and...
An Infinite Debt - with Christopher Havens (Prisoner #349034)
Catch this episode on YouTube - https://youtu.be/DPyWf4cI548
The Prison Mathematics Project - https://www.prisonmathproject.org/about/
The Little Star - with Zvezdelina Stankova
Mathematician Zvezdelina Stankova was born in Bulgaria and is now a teaching professor at UC Berkeley.
Zvezda's webpage - https://math.be...
Google's 'DeepMind' does Mathematics
A breakthrough paper is published about using artificial intelligence to do mathematics - we discuss it with DeepMind's Alex Davies and Professor Marc...
Making Sense of Infinity - with Asaf Karagila
From high school drop-out to set theorist, Asaf Karagila shares his journey towards infinity. Asaf is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University o...
A Chance at Immortality - with Marcus Du Sautoy
Mathematical greatness can strike at any time - even on the train between Oxford and London.
Marcus is the Simonyi Professor for the Publ...
The Naked Mathematician - with Tom Crawford
Dr Tom Crawford has been known to strip to his underwear in the interests of math education. He is an Early Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow at Oxf...
Beauty in the Messiness - with Philip Moriarty
Experimental physicist Phil Moriarty works with temperamental microscopes and individual atoms. Today's topics include Ireland, mathematics, failing a...
The High Jumping Cosmologist - with Katie Mack
Astrophysicist Katie Mack discusses Twitter, athletics, mathematics, and the small matter of the fate of the Universe.
Katie Mack's website
Rockstar Epidemiologists - with Adam Kucharski
Adam Kucharski is among a number of epidemiologists who has suddenly been thrust into the limelight. We discuss his career and the current state of th...
Statistics and Saving Lives - with Jennifer Rogers
Professor Jennifer Rogers discusses coronavirus vaccinations, the media, and her own path to medical statistics.
Jennifer Rogers website, with l...
Why Study Mathematics - with Vicky Neale
Dr Vicky Neale's latest book is about why people should study mathematics - but why did SHE study mathematics?
Dr Neale's website - with links t...
Club Automatic - with Alex Bellos
Author and puzzle guru Alex Bellos talks about mathematics, writing, reviews, and his early days running a nightclub.
Check out Alex's books on...
Quiz Shows and Math Anxiety - with Bobby Seagull
School teacher Bobby Seagull is well-known for appearing on a quiz show - but there's much more to his story.
Episode sponsored by Brilliant - b...
Nursery Rhymes and Numbers - with Alan Stewart
Nursery Rhymes and Numbers - with Alan Stewart
A team of composers and musicians have joined forces to re-imagine classic nursery rhymes with ne...
The Importance of Numbers - with Tim Harford
Economist Tim Harford on the importance of numbers and statistics.
Tim Harford's website has links to most of his projects
Tim's book How...
Why Did The Mathematician Cross The Road? - with Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose is one of the biggest names in mathematics AND physics. Here he talks about sibling rivalry, Stephen Hawking, having ideas, and toil...
The Third Cornet - with Katie Steckles
Dr Katie Steckles is a mainstay of the mathematics communications scene and a regular in our videos. Here she discusses her life at school, university...
The Mathematical Showman - Ron Graham (1935-2020)
Tributes to mathematician Ronald Graham - a man of many talents.
Our guests include Steve Butler, Tom Leighton, and Joe Buhler
Ron Graham...
The Numeracy Ambassador - with Simon Pampena
Speaking with Simon Pampena, Australia's National Numeracy Ambassador who once dreamed of being a Jedi.
Simon Pampena website
Videos with...
The Happy Twin - with Ben Sparks
Our guest is Ben Sparks - teacher, math populariser, and Numberphile regular.
Ben Sparks website
Videos with Ben on Numberphile
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The Parker Quiz - with Matt Parker
Matt Parker takes a quiz prepared by Brady. The YouTube version of this quiz contains a few visuals.
Do you like quizzes and puzzles and interac...
The Accidental Streamer - with 3blue1brown
Grant Sanderson from 3blue1brown returns to the podcast to talk about live-streaming lessons, tracing coronavirus, and a technical mishap.
Suppo...