Interviews with people who love numbers and mathematics. Hosted by Brady Haran, maker of the Numberphile series on YouTube.
Donald Knuth is unquestionably a legend of computer science and mathematics - but he is bad at estimation and grew up with a “rhinoceros attitude”.
Don Knuth’s homepage - https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/
The Art of Computer Programming (books) - https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html
On Amazon - https://amzn.to/4aUkkeT
3:16 (book) - https://amzn.to/4aRs9lH
Knuth’s questions for Chat GPT - https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt
Knuth videos on Numberphile - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWLfLjzHzmFO6T8jCZdipvQc
Brady’s video on John 3:16 from his Bibledex series - https://youtu.be/ZJjFebPW5b8
Ziegler’s Giant Bar - https://www.halfnuts.net/products/an-original-ziegler-giant-bar?variant=55664909259
Numberphile is supported by Jane Street - https://www.numberphile.com/jane-street
We also work with the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute - https://www.slmath.org
You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile
Here are our Patrons - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons
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 What You Watch - https://amzn.to/3F8SwVo
Walt’s Website - https://walthickey.com
Numlock News - https://www.numlock.com
Dr Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park - https://jurassicpark.fandom.com/wiki/Ian_Malcolm
Does Hollywood ruin books? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUD8h9JpEVQ Math and Movies (Animation at Pixar) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX0NB9IyYpU
The problem in Good Will Hunting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW_LkYiuTKE
Numberphile is supported by Jane Street - https://www.numberphile.com/jane-street
We also work with the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute - https://www.slmath.org
You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile
Here are our Patrons - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons
Federico Ardila is a combinatorialist at San Francisco State University.
He’s Colombian and in this episode he talks candidly about the struggles and prejudice encountered by people from different backgrounds as they try to make their mark in academia.
And just so you know there’s happy ending in sight - this episode of the podcast will conclude with a stirring musical finale.
Federico’s site - https://fardila.com
SFSU page - https://math.sfsu.edu/faculty/ardila
SLMath supports Numberphile - https://www.slmath.org
You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile
Here are our Patrons - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons
Oxford mathematician James Maynard explains why he feared accidentally refusing the most famous prize in mathematics.
Watch this full interview on YouTube - https://youtu.be/yz-5BY_TTNI
Full 2022 Fields Medal Winners - https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2022
See our Fields Medal Playlist - https://bit.ly/Fields_Playlist
More James Maynard videos - https://bit.ly/JamesMaynard
James Maynard - https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/professor-james-maynard/
You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile
Here are our Patrons - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons
He dreamed of being a great cricketer - but his love for equations led Ed Copeland to a career in theoretical physics.
Check out opportunities with episode sponsor Jane Street
Ed Copeland at the University of Nottingham
A trilogy of longer videos with Ed
Astronomer Mike Merrifield had terrible handwriting and dreamed of captaining a submarine - now he's an astronomer and world expert on galaxies.
Episode sponsored by Jane Street - check out their latest opportunities
Mike Merrifield Video Playlist
Sixty Symbols - Physics videos, many featuring Mike
Ralph Merrifield author page on Amazon
Galactic Astronomy by James Binney and Michael Merrifield
Hand-written version of Mike's 'Good Will Hunting' paper
And here is the published version
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From a challenging situation in Bogota to a prestigious job in US academia, Tatiana Toro wants to help others find their mathematical pathway.
Professor Toro is the new director of the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SL Math).
Announcement of Professor Toro's appointment
Tadashi Tokieda is a Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University - and a popular contributor to videos on our Numberphile video channel. But his path to mathematics was unusual.
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With thanks to MSRI
Professor Hannah Fry discusses her cervical cancer diagnosis - and subsequent attempt to make sense of it all.
Making Sense of Cancer - Showing on BBC2 on June 2 and then on BBC iPlayer
Numberphile videos with Hannah
Hannah previously on the podcast
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Tony Padilla is known on Numberphile for tackling the big numbers... But by day he's a cosmologist and life-long fan of Liverpool FC. Brady joined him at Anfield for a game against Watford.
Tony at the University of Nottingham
Order Tony's book Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity --- Amazon US - Amazon UK - MacMillan US - Penguin UK
Some videos with Tony on Numberphile
And some videos with Tony on Sixty Symbols
The Sum of the Integers being -1/12
Liverpool v Watford on 2 April 2022
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The Numberphile Podcast by Brady Haran
Data visualisation guru Martin Krzywinski has teamed up with composer Gregory Coles to make music based on Pi - the early digits AND the last known digits.
Three One Four: A Number of Notes
The project is a collaboration between Martin, Gregory Coles, and Emma Beauxis-Aussalet
YouTube album discussions and score analysis
62.8 trillion digit computation of Pi
Some of Martin's previous Pi visualisations can be found here
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