The Numberphile Podcast

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

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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 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.

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Ed Copeland at the University of Nottingham

Numberphile videos with Ed

Some physics videos with Ed

A trilogy of longer videos with Ed

You can support Numberphile on Patreon

With thanks to SLMath

Episode sponsored by Jane Street - check out their latest opportunities - https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/overview/ Professor Michael Merrifield - https://about.me/michael.merrifield Mike's Twitter - https://twitter.com/AstroMikeMerri Mike Merrifield Video Playlist - http://bit.ly/Merrifield_Playlist Sixty Symbols - Physics videos, many featuring Mike - https://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols Deep Sky Videos - https://www.youtube.com/user/deepskyvideos Messier Objects Playlist - http://bit.ly/MessierObjects Ralph Merrifield - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Merrifield Ralph Merrifield author page on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3Hff0Gj Galactic Astronomy by James Binney and Michael Merrifield - https://amzn.to/3Xme4Fs Hand-written version of Mike's 'Good Will Hunting' paper - https://brady-haran.squarespace.com/s/MerrifieldPaperHandWritten.pdf And here is the published version - https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1990AJ.....99.1548M You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile) like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons With thanks to SLMath - https://www.msri.org

Professor Toro is the new director of the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SL Math). SL Math website - https://www.msri.org/ Announcement of Professor Toro's appointment - https://www.msri.org/web/msri/communications/tatiana-toro-msri-director-2022 MSRI is renamed SL Math - https://www.msri.org/web/msri/communications/msri-press-release-may-19-2022 Professor Toro's University of Washington webpage - https://sites.math.washington.edu/~toro/ Podcast with David Eisenbud - Professor Toro's predecessor - https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/david-eisenbud

Tadashi at Stanford - https://mathematics.stanford.edu/people/tadashi-tokieda Tadashi videos on Numberphile - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWI9eDSJREzp1wvOJsjt23H_ Lev Davidovich Landau - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Landau You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile) like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org

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 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017wzq Telegraph Article - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/prof-hannah-fry-calculating-risks-cancer-treatment-would-have/ Hannah Fry website - https://hannahfry.co.uk/ Hannah Fry books - Amazon - https://amzn.to/3PzW4nz Numberphile videos with Hannah - http://bit.ly/hannah_vids Hannah previously on the podcast - https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/hannah-fry Macmillan Cancer Support - https://www.macmillan.org.uk NHS Cancer help - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cancer/ You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile Like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org

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-long fan of Liverpool FC. Brady joined him at Anfield for a game against Watford. Tony at the University of Nottingham - https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/antonio.padilla Order Tony's book Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity Amazon US - https://amzn.to/3JYQbws Amazon UK - https://amzn.to/3M3yvB8 MacMillan US - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374600570/fantasticnumbersandwheretofindthem Penguin UK - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316/316964/fantastic-numbers-and-where-to-find-them/9780241445372.html Some videos with Tony on Numberphile - http://bit.ly/Padilla_Numberphile And some videos with Tony on Sixty Symbols - https://bit.ly/Padilla_SixtySymbols The Sum of the Integers being -1/12 - https://www.bradyharanblog.com/blog/2015/1/11/this-blog-probably-wont-help Liverpool v Watford on 2 April 2022 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eHdk_1mJqA You can 'watch' the podcasts, including this one, on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH2AOVeIaWFmnXrXQ_UhKVy9Zp0RtRMm5 This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ - https://www.gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile) like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org

Three One Four: A Number of Notes - http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pi/piday2022/ The project is a collaboration between Martin, Gregory Coles, and Emma Beauxis-Aussalet On Bandcamp - https://ecstaticquiet1.bandcamp.com/album/three-one-four-a-number-of-notes YouTube track playlist - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLewycy5dwN_nDZVW9fPcTRhGiGMEXqoxs YouTube album discussions and score analysis - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLewycy5dwN_k_nAU9bhbTaDAKW3YAo_WW Martin Krzywinski - http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca 62.8 trillion digit computation of Pi - https://www.fhgr.ch/en/specialist-areas/applied-future-technologies/davis-centre/pi-challenge Some of Martin's previous Pi visualisations can be found here - http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pi/ This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ - https://www.gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile) like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org

Catch this episode on YouTube - https://youtu.be/DPyWf4cI548 The Prison Mathematics Project - https://www.prisonmathproject.org/about/ The Paper: Linear fractional transformations and non-linear leaping convergents of some continued fractions - https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12644 Article by Marta Cerruti on The Conversation - https://theconversation.com/an-inmates-love-for-math-leads-to-new-discoveries-130123 You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile) like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org

Mathematician Zvezdelina Stankova was born in Bulgaria and is now a teaching professor at UC Berkeley. Zvezda's webpage - https://math.berkeley.edu/~stankova/ Zvezda videos on Numberphile - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWIbAPK1oJgRIpe0sWiPKkQ4 The Legend of Question Six - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y30VF3cSIYQ Berkeley Math Circle - https://mathcircle.berkeley.edu This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ - https://www.gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile Like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org

A breakthrough paper is published about using artificial intelligence to do mathematics - we discuss it with DeepMind's Alex Davies and Professor Marcus du Sautoy. DeepMind - https://deepmind.com DeepMind blog on this topic - https://deepmind.com/blog/article/exploring-the-beauty-of-pure-mathematics-in-novel-ways Nature article on the topic - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03593-1 Article from The Conversation by Geordie Williamson, who worked on the project - https://theconversation.com/mathematical-discoveries-take-intuition-and-creativity-and-now-a-little-help-from-ai-172900 Marcus du Sautoy - https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk The Creativity Code - book on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3Dmxak2 Collaborator Geordie Williamson - https://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/geordie/ Collaborator Marc Lackenby - http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/lackenby/ Collaborator Andras Juhasz - https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/andras.juhasz This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ - https://www.gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile - like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org

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 of East Anglia. Asaf's blog - http://karagila.org Asaf's Twitter - https://twitter.com/AsafKaragila Some Infinity stuff on Numberphile - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWKORZ3UeTKlJiJa-89BBz3t You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile) like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org This episode was also made possible by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship - https://www.ukri.org/our-work/developing-people-and-skills/future-leaders-fellowships/ UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship MR/T021705/1

Mathematical greatness can strike at any time - even on the train between Oxford and London. Marcus is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University - https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk Marcus' author page on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3eJNd1Z I is a Strange Loop - book - https://amzn.to/3eJNd1Z I is a Strange Loop - performance on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEORIj1Ecug This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ - https://www.gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile) like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org Podcast by Brady Haran - https://www.bradyharanblog.com With thanks to GWR - https://www.gwr.com - for the Oxford-London rail footage used in the YouTube version of this podcast - https://youtu.be/PVSkzNOXG1k Additional train footage courtesy of Don Coffey - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8LH7xMAyCSqpClAvTHwJRw - whose video work is supporting Samaritans - https://www.samaritans.org/donate-now/

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 Oxford University. Tom's page at St Edmund Hall - https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/tom-crawford Tom Rock's Maths YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/tomrocksmaths Tom's main website with links to most stuff - https://tomrocksmaths.com Numberphile videos featuring Tom Crawford - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJ2TNTA79reKQ6S88kTvDR- This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ - https://www.gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile) like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org

Experimental physicist Phil Moriarty works with temperamental microscopes and individual atoms. Today's topics include Ireland, mathematics, failing at university, microscopy, academic gripes... and music.

Professor Moriarty's university page - including links to some of his papers

Phil's book: When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11: Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal

Some of Brady's videos with Phil

The Golden Ratio music video

Phil's blog

Want more? Hear Phil with Brady on The Unmade Podcast

This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/

You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people

With thanks to MSRI

Astrophysicist Katie Mack discusses Twitter, athletics, mathematics, and the small matter of the fate of the Universe.

Katie Mack's website

And her Twitter @AstroKatie

The End of Everything - Dr Mack's book on Amazon

This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/

You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people

With thanks to MSRI

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 the coronavirus pandemic.

This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/

Adam Kucharski's website

Adam's books on Amazon, including The Rules of Contagion

Some of our previous podcasts that touch on epidemiology include these ones with Kit Yates, Hannah Fry and Jennifer Rogers

You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people

With thanks to MSRI

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Professor Jennifer Rogers discusses coronavirus vaccinations, the media, and her own path to medical statistics.

Jennifer Rogers website, with links to all sorts of things

Jennifer's TEDx Talk

Jennifer has written about cornavirus vaccinations on the Phastar blog here and here

For some previous Numberphile chat and videos about coronavirus you can check these out:

Gondor Calls For Aid with Kit Yates

The Coronavirus Curve with Ben Sparks

Crystal Balls with Hannah Fry

Other links...

The Royal Statistical Society

Phastar

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With thanks to MSRI

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 to her work and books and craft

Why Study Mathematics - book on Amazon

Vicky's author page on Amazon

Vicky's craft, including the prime bracelets

Support Numberphile on Patreon like these people do

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MSRI

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Author and puzzle guru Alex Bellos talks about mathematics, writing, reviews, and his early days running a nightclub.

Check out Alex's books on Amazon including his latest, The Language Lover's Puzzle Book

Alex's website has more information and links to his work and here is Alex on Twitter

Playlist of Alex's videos on Numberphile

Elliptical Pool Table video and Cake Cutting video

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MSRI

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 - brilliant.org/numberphile

Bobby Seagull's website

Bobby on Twitter

Bobby's book The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers

National Numeracy

West Ham Utd

Watch Bobby on University Challenge

Support Numberphile on Patreon

With thanks to

MSRI

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Nursery Rhymes and Numbers - with Alan Stewart

A team of composers and musicians have joined forces to re-imagine classic nursery rhymes with new counts, timings and tempos. It's dubbed Tuplets for Toddlers, and has been led Numberphile's resident composer Alan Stewart.

Check out the album on Amazon

On iTunes

Spotify

And on Bandcamp

An old interview with Alan can be found here

A couple of Brady's favourite videos scored by Alan include this one from Mt Everest and this one from Chile - but there are countless more!

Oh, this fire log one was good too

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 to Make the World Add Up - signed copies on Maths Gear

Tim Harford books on Amazon

Tim's video on Numberphile

Support Numberphile on Patreon

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MSRI

Sir Roger Penrose is one of the biggest names in mathematics AND physics. Here he talks about sibling rivalry, Stephen Hawking, having ideas, and toilet paper.

Roger Penrose Wikipedia

Roger Penrose books - Amazon

The Order of Merit

The Theory of Everything - 2014 movie about Stephen Hawking

Penrose Tiling

Penrose Toilet Paper

The San Francisco Transit Center with its Penrose Tiling

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MSRI

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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, and now as a freelance maths communicator. Plus life as a pirate.

Katie Steckles website

Follow Katie on Twitter

Talking Maths in Public

Check out Katie's videos on Numberphile

Support this podcast - and our videos - via Patreon

With thanks to

MSRI

Apologies for the change in audio quality part way through - we had technical issues!

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Tributes to mathematician Ronald Graham - a man of many talents.

Our guests include Steve Butler, Tom Leighton, and Joe Buhler

Ron Graham 'fan' webpage

Ron Graham papers

Ron Graham on Numberphile

A collection of Numberphile videos about Graham's Number

Tom Leighton written tribute to Ron

Steve Butler tribute to Ron

Speaking with Simon Pampena, Australia's National Numeracy Ambassador who once dreamed of being a Jedi.

Simon Pampena website

Videos with Simon on Numberphile

Epic Circles and The Legend of Question Six

Simon on Twitter

Beyond 2000

The Malls' Balls are also discussed in our Quiz Episode with Matt Parker

With thanks to

MSRI

Support us on Patreon - we appreciate your help

The Patron Wall of Fame

You can also catch this episode on the Numberphile2 YouTube channel

Our guest is Ben Sparks - teacher, math populariser, and Numberphile regular.

Ben Sparks website

Videos with Ben on Numberphile

Video of Tim Sparks performing Your Own Idea - Nikko Fir and here's Tim's website

A pic of Ben and Tim

The Bill Clinton picture

Ben's Mandelbrot Video on Numberphile

Advanced Mathematics Support Programme

Talking Maths in Public

With thanks to

MSRI

Support us on Patreon - we appreciate your help

The Patron Wall of Fame

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 interactive courses? Then definitely check out episode sponsor Brilliant - and go to brilliant.org/numberphile for 20% off a premium subscription

Many of the links below contain QUIZ SPOILERS.

Matt Parker is standupmaths - his website has links to most stuff

Matt's books on Amazon

Matt's first appearance on this podcast

Matt's videos on Numberphile

Terry Tao on Numberphile

Good Will Hunting which is directed by Gus Van Sant

Two Numberphile videos about Good Will Hunting are here and here - featuring James Grime

Newton, Euler, Gauss, Ramanujan, and Turing

Newton videos from Brady's Objectivity channel

Millennium Problems

Festival of The Spoken Nerd, featuring Matt with Steve Mould and Helen Arney

Steve and Matt's YouTube channels

The Parker Square

The video which created the Parker Square legend

Parker Square T-Shirt

Bonnie Parker

Matthew Parker

Ernest Parker

Latin/Euler Squares on Numberphile

Parker Solar Probe

Lucie Green's PhD thesis

Edna Parker

Professor's Cube

Superbowl 50

Luc Longley

West Coast Eagles win the 1992 AFL Grand Final

The Malls Balls

Australia's Highest Point

And the lowest

Akshay Venkatesh

With thanks to MSRI

Grant Sanderson from 3blue1brown returns to the podcast to talk about live-streaming lessons, tracing coronavirus, and a technical mishap.

Support this podcast and Numberphile on Patreon

Grant's channel - 3blue1brown

Grant's first live lesson

Exponential Growth - 3 blue1brown

Simulating an epidemic - 3blue1brown

The Coronavirus Curve with Ben Sparks - Numberphile

Itempool

Matt Parker

Ben Eater

Nicky Case Tweet

The Accidental Stream

Grant's eye video on Objectivity

Objectivity channel

We pay tribute to John Horton Conway - with clips from the man himself, plus contributions from Siobhan Roberts, David Eisenbud, Colm Mulcahy and Tony Padilla.

Genius at Play by Siobhan Roberts

John Conway Numberphile Playlist

Does John Conway hate his Game of Life?

Inventing Game of Life

Life, Death and the Monster

Look-and-Say Numbers

Monster Group

Siobhan Roberts

David Eisenbud

Colm Mulcahy

Tony Padilla

Dr Hannah Fry made a film two years ago which predicted the coronavirus pandemic with chilling accuracy.

Dr Hannah Fry's website - links to all her stuff

The BBC Contagion special on iPlayer

If it doesn't work on iPlayer, this is a version I found on YouTube!?

Numberphile video about the SIR curve with Ben Sparks

Numberphile discusses coronavirus mathematics with Kit Yates

False Positives on Numberphile with Lisa Goldberg

PAPER: Contacts in context: large-scale setting-specific social mixing matrices from the BBC Pandemic project

PAPER: Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic ? The model behind the documentary

BBC Horizon Coronavirus Special - the more recent film Hannah made with the Beeb

RI Christmas Lectures 2019: Secrets and lies

Mathematician/epidemiologist Adam Kucharski on Twitter

With thanks to

MSRI

Support us on Patreon

Mathematical biologist Kit Yates discussing the coronavirus pandemic.

Kit Yates website

Kit on Twitter

The Royal Society's call to arms for mathematicians

NHS advice on Coronavirus and COVID-19

Ben Sparks on Numberphile - The Coronavirus Curve

3blue1brown on the exponential growth of epidemics

Simulating an epidemic with 3blue1brown

Tom Crawford on the SIR Model

Kurzgesagt on COVID-19

Extended presentation by Nick Jewell for MSRI

With thanks to MSRI

Support our content via Patreon

From Illinois to Cambridgeshire, Holly Krieger?s path to mathematics was an unusual one.

Holly?s webpage

And her publications

Watch Holly on Numberphile

Math or Maths?

Champaign, Illinois

With thanks to

MSRI

Meyer Sound

Podcast Transcripts

Edward Frenkel's fascinating mathematical journey - from the Soviet Union to the United States.

Edward's website

Love and Math - Edward's book via Amazon

Edward on Twitter

His videos on Numberphile

Artificial Intelligence: First Person Perspective

Coffin Problems paper (aka Jewish Problems)

Rites of Love and Math - the film

About the film and its Formula of Love

Frenkel research papers

With thanks to

MSRI

Meyer Sound

James Maynard is making waves in the world of prime numbers - we spoke to him in his office at Oxford University.

James is appointed a professor

And wins the Cole Prize

James discusses the Twin Prime Conjecture - Numberphile video

Small Gaps Between Primes - paper

Large Gaps Between Primes - paper

Large Gaps Between Primes - Numberphile video

James on his love of primes - Numberphile video

James Maynard playlist

Prime Number playlist

Numberphile on Patreon

With thanks to

MSRI

Meyer Sound

Fame and Admiration - with Timothy Gowers

Fields Medallist Sir Timothy Gowers discusses his career - and the role of ?begrudging admiration? in mathematics.

Sir Timothy Gowers webpage at Cambridge

Timothy Gowers blog

And his Twitter

The Fields Medal

Terminator 2

The unconditional basic sequence problem

Szemerédi's theorem

Tim Gowers International Math Olympiad results

The Fields Medal with Cédric Villani - Numberphile

With thanks to

MSRI

Meyer Sound

We speak with Neil Sloane - creator and keeper of the famed ?On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences?.

OEIS

Sequences we featured from the OEIS included Fibonacci Numbers, A068679, Bell or exponential numbers, A000435 - The Genesis Sequence, Euler totient function, King Louis births, Recaman's sequence, Gijswijt's sequence, and Brady Numbers.

Videos featuring Neil on Numberphile

Neil Sloane homepage

Traralgon and Brady?s podcast with Tim from Traralgon

1956 Melbourne Olympics

Neil?s works on Amazon

Neil?s PhD thesis

Sloane's Gap - Numberphile

The Slightly Spooky Recaman Sequence - Numberphile

Guardian article on Neil Sloane

Works citing the OEIS

OEIS Foundation and donations

Birth of the Brady Numbers

With thanks to

MSRI

Meyer Sound

We record at the Royal Society in London, with Isaac Newton's original calculus papers.

Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz

Steve's author page on Amazon

Some bonus video footage we filmed at the Royal Society

Hannah Fry with the same documents on Objectivity

And the Principia on Objectivity

The Royal Society

With thanks to

MSRI

Meyer Sound

From a difficult school to serving two terms as president of the juggling club - James Grime discusses his mathematical journey.

James Grime website - includes a section to book his talks

A selection of James? videos on Numberphile

James? own channel - Singing Banana

James discusses The Little Professor

The first proper Numberphile video from 2011

Filming at a gritty, urban underpass

Status: Black Eagle

James talks about Enigma

Brady?s Bibledex

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MSRI

Meyer Sound

John Urschel is studying for a PhD in mathematics - and played three seasons of professional football in the NFL.

Mind and Matter - by John Urschel and Louisa Thomas - on Amazon

Book on the publisher's website

John's math publications

John's NFL stats

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MSRI

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Numberphile merchandise

David Eisenbud's entertaining stories about mathematics are a fascinating glimpse into how math works - how it really works.

MSRI - where David is director

David Eisenbud's MSRI page with some links to publications and other material

Google Scholar citations

Videos with David on Numberphile

The 17-gon video

David's math genealogy

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Meyer Sound

Standup mathematician Matt Parker opens his heart to reveal... a standup comedian who loves mathematics.

This is the link for 'Humble Pi' - signed first-edition hardback

Matt Parker videos on Numberphile

Matt's website

The notorious Parker Square video

Parker Square T-Shirts via Numberphile on Teespring

The Malls Balls

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MSRI

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You can support Numberphile on Patreon

A note: Humble Pi will be released at different times in different countries, but you can get your signed copy ASAP pretty much ANYWHERE in the world via Maths Gear

Author and campaigner Simon Singh talks about his fascinating career, a famous legal case, and his attempts to change the way mathematics is taught in UK schools.

Simon Singh's website - links to all sorts of stuff

Watch Simon's videos on Numberphile

parallel - as discussed on the show

Simon's books on Amazon

Quest for a new £50 note

Brady's video with suggestion for the £50

British Chiropractic Association v Singh - via Wikipedia

With thanks to: MSRI and episode sponsor Meyer Sound

Brady?s other podcasts?

Hello Internet

The Unmade Podcast

Computer hackers, Klein bottles and searching for a lost teacher - Cliff Stoll is a man with stories to tell.

Cliff's Klein bottle website

The man with 1000 Klein bottles under this house

Cliff Stoll videos on Numberphile

The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll

Silicon Snake Oil by Cliff Stoll

Boing Boing article about Cliff's predictions

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Numberphile T-Shirts and stuff

Math celebrity Hannah Fry tells us about her life as public intellectual and thought leader - plus her as-yet unreleased novel 'Free as a Bird', written as a schoolgirl.

Hannah's website - including links to her papers

Numberphile videos featuring Hannah Fry

Hannah Fry books on Amazon US

Hannah Fry books on Amazon UK

Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry

Thanks to BBC 6 Music for the clip from Shaun Keaveny's show

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MSRI

Meyer Sound

Ken Ribet is the president of the American Mathematical Society. He played a key role in the proof of Fermat?s Last Theorem.

Ken Ribet?s home page

The AMS

Ken?s famous paper

The Wiles Proof of Fermat?s Last Theorem

Numberphile video with Ken about his work

Ken?s 87 hair cuts

Simon Singh discusses Fermat?s Last Theorem in a Numberphile video

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MSRI

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