Interviews with people who love numbers and mathematics. Hosted by Brady Haran, maker of the Numberphile series on YouTube.
Ellen Eischen is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon. Here she discusses creativity, collaboration - and a “secret” journal she has kept since childhood.
Ellen Eischen website (includes some links to the teaching we discussed): http://www.elleneischen.com
Women in Numbers: https://awm-math.org/research-networks/win/
Creativity Counts museum exhibit: https://jsma.uoregon.edu/CreativityCounts
Ellen on Numberphile discussing Faulhaber's Fabulous Formula (and Bernoulli Numbers): https://youtu.be/83NFR7JDlww
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Catch a video version of this episode at: https://youtu.be/xMAiBBxQGZI
Danica McKellar is best-known for portraying girl-next-door Winnie Cooper in The Wonder Years - but she has also proven a math theorem (which bears her name) and writes books to inspire future mathematicians.
Check out her math website and books at: https://mckellarmath.com
And Danica’s general website at: https://danicamckellar.com
Danica on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danicamckellar/
Danica’s books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3VQdzny
Danica’s co-authored paper which led to the Chayes–McKellar–Winn theorem: https://scienceblogs.de/geograffitico/wp-content/blogs.dir/70/files/2012/07/i-5bb4f4203312f2a650f3294cf4ddac13-percolation.pdf
Brady’s dog Winnie: https://www.instagram.com/the_wonderful_winnie/
The Wonder Years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonder_Years
Jane Street opportunities (episode sponsor): https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/overview/
Jane Street’s Insight program as mentioned on the show: https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/programs-and-events/insight/
Numberphile is also supported by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute: https://www.slmath.org
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This podcast marks the passing of James Harris Simons, better-known as Jim.
The interviewees are John Ewing, David Eisenbud and Andrew Millis.
The Simons Foundation - https://www.simonsfoundation.org
Simons Foundation article about Jim’s life - https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/remembering-the-life-and-careers-of-jim-simons/
Brady’s interview with Jim for Numberphile (full hour-log version) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0
Shorter 18-minute version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjVDqfUhXOY
Math For America - https://www.mathforamerica.org
The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath, formerly MSRI) - https://www.slmath.org
The Flatiron Institute - https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/
The Chern-Simons form - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chern%E2%80%93Simons_form
The Archimedes (Jim’s yacht) - https://www.feadship.nl/fleet/archimedes1
Numberphile has been supported by The Simons Foundation (via SLMath) for many years. We are yet another of Jim’s legacies.
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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.
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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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