Twitter: @numberphile • @BradyHaran
Site: www.numberphile.com
51 episodes
2018 to present
Average episode: 53 minutes
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Categories: Interview-Style • Math
Podcaster's summary: Interviews with people who love numbers and mathematics. Hosted by Brady Haran, maker of the Numberphile series on YouTube.
| Episodes |
| 2024-Jan-16 • 54 minutes 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”. |
| 2023-Oct-12 • 51 minutes 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. |
| 2023-Aug-23 • 55 minutes 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 prejudice encountered by people from different backgrounds as they try to make their mark in academia. |
| 2023-Aug-02 • 28 minutes 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. |
| 2023-Feb-21 • 64 minutes 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. |
| 2023-Jan-18 • 66 minutes A Chain of Chance - with Michael Merrifield Astronomer Mike Merrifield had terrible handwriting and dreamed of captaining a submarine - now he's an astronomer and world expert on galaxies. |
| 2022-Dec-13 • 44 minutes Finding a Path - with Tatiana Toro From a challenging situation in Bogota to a prestigious job in US academia, Tatiana Toro wants to help others find their mathematical pathway. |
| 2022-Jul-11 • 74 minutes An Educated Adult - with Tadashi Tokieda 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. |
| 2022-May-29 • 37 minutes 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. |
| 2022-Apr-18 • 51 minutes 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-long fan of Liverpool FC. Brady joined him at Anfield for a game against Watford. |
| 2022-Mar-14 • 43 minutes The First and Last Digits of Pi 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. |
| 2022-Feb-13 • 50 minutes An Infinite Debt - with Christopher Havens (Prisoner #349034) Christopher Havens is serving a 25-year prison sentence for murder - but behind bars he's seeking redemption through advanced mathematics. He has published an academic paper... and is bringing math to other inmates via The Prison Mathematics Project. |
| 2022-Jan-13 • 58 minutes The Little Star - with Zvezdelina Stankova Mathematician Zvezdelina Stankova was born in Bulgaria and is now a teaching professor at UC Berkeley. |
| 2021-Dec-02 • 37 minutes 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 Marcus du Sautoy. |
| 2021-Aug-28 • 54 minutes 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 of East Anglia. |
| 2021-Jul-26 • 51 minutes A Chance at Immortality - with Marcus Du Sautoy Mathematical greatness can strike at any time - even on the train between Oxford and London. |
| 2021-May-31 • 58 minutes 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 Oxford University. |
| 2021-Apr-03 • 39 minutes 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 at university, microscopy, academic gripes... and music. |
| 2021-Feb-25 • 55 minutes The High Jumping Cosmologist - with Katie Mack Astrophysicist Katie Mack discusses Twitter, athletics, mathematics, and the small matter of the fate of the Universe. |
| 2021-Feb-02 • 45 minutes Rockstar Epidemiologists - with Adam Kucharski Adam Kucharski is among a number of leading epidemiologists who has suddenly been thrust into the limelight. We discuss his career and the current state of the coronavirus pandemic. |
| 2020-Dec-11 • 56 minutes Statistics and Saving Lives - with Jennifer Rogers Professor Jennifer Rogers discusses coronavirus vaccinations, the media, and her own path to medical statistics. |
| 2020-Dec-08 • 45 minutes 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? |
| 2020-Nov-25 • 54 minutes Club Automatic - with Alex Bellos Author and puzzle guru Alex Bellos talks about mathematics, writing, reviews, and his early days running a nightclub. |
| 2020-Oct-23 • 84 minutes Quiz Shows and Math Anxiety - with Bobby Seagull School teacher Bobby Seagull made his name on a quiz show - but there's much more to his story. |
| 2020-Oct-05 • 54 minutes 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. |
| 2020-Sep-12 • 47 minutes The Importance of Numbers - with Tim Harford Economist Tim Harford on the importance of numbers and statistics. |
| 2020-Aug-08 • 65 minutes 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 toilet paper. |
| 2020-Jul-23 • 60 minutes 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, and now as a freelance maths communicator. Plus life as a pirate. |
| 2020-Jul-13 • 39 minutes The Mathematical Showman - Ron Graham (1935-2020) Tributes to mathematician Ronald Graham - a man of many talents. |
| 2020-Jul-01 • 60 minutes The Numeracy Ambassador - with Simon Pampena Speaking with Simon Pampena, Australia's National Numeracy Ambassador who once dreamed of being a Jedi. |
| 2020-May-27 • 62 minutes The Happy Twin - with Ben Sparks Our guest is Ben Sparks - teacher, math populariser, and Numberphile regular. |
| 2020-May-21 • 56 minutes The Parker Quiz - with Matt Parker Matt Parker takes a quiz prepared by Brady. The YouTube version of this quiz contains a few visuals at https://youtu.be/hMwQwppzrys |
| 2020-Apr-19 • 33 minutes 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. |
| 2020-Apr-13 • 38 minutes The Legendary John Conway (1937-2020) 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. |
| 2020-Apr-10 • 45 minutes Crystal Balls and Coronavirus - with Hannah Fry Dr Hannah Fry made a film two years ago which predicted the coronavirus pandemic with chilling accuracy. |
| 2020-Mar-31 • 28 minutes Gondor Calls For Aid - with Kit Yates Mathematical biologist Kit Yates discussing the coronavirus pandemic. |
| 2019-Dec-13 • 40 minutes Champaign Mathematician - with Holly Krieger From Illinois to Cambridgeshire, Holly Krieger’s path to mathematics was an unusual one. |
| 2019-Dec-03 • 82 minutes Coffin Problems - with Edward Frenkel Edward Frenkel's fascinating mathematical journey - from the Soviet Union to the United States. |
| 2019-Nov-10 • 42 minutes The Badly Behaved Prime - with James Maynard James Maynard is making waves in the world of prime numbers - we spoke to him in his office at Oxford University. |
| 2019-Oct-22 • 54 minutes Fame and Admiration - with Timothy Gowers Fields Medallist Sir Timothy Gowers discusses his career - and the role of ‘begrudging admiration’ in mathematics. |
| 2019-Aug-14 • 56 minutes The Number Collector - with Neil Sloane We speak with Neil Sloane - creator and keeper of the famed ‘On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences’. |
| 2019-Jun-17 • 51 minutes The C-Word - talking Calculus with Steven Strogatz We record at the Royal Society in London, with Isaac Newton's original calculus papers. |
| 2019-May-20 • 73 minutes The Singing Banana - with James Grime From a difficult school to serving two terms as president of the juggling club - James Grime discusses his mathematical journey. |
| 2019-May-14 • 37 minutes The Offensive Lineman - with John Urschel John Urschel is studying for a PhD in mathematics - and played three seasons of professional football in the NFL. He's an offensive lineman who became a graph theorist. |
| 2019-Apr-07 • 75 minutes A Proof in the Drawer - with David Eisenbud David Eisenbud's entertaining stories about mathematics are a fascinating glimpse into how math works - how it really works. |
| 2019-Feb-24 • 52 minutes Parker Square - with Matt Parker Standup mathematician Matt Parker opens his heart to reveal... a standup comedian who loves mathematics. Order a signed copy of Matt's book: http://bit.ly/Humble_Pi |
| 2019-Feb-11 • 72 minutes The Math Storyteller - with Simon Singh 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. |
| 2019-Jan-08 • 59 minutes The Klein Bottle Guy - with Cliff Stoll Computer hackers, Klein bottles and searching for a lost teacher - Cliff Stoll is a man with stories to tell. |
| 2018-Dec-16 • 52 minutes Delicious Problems - with Hannah Fry 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. |
| 2018-Nov-22 • 48 minutes Fermat’s Last Theorem - with Ken Ribet Ken Ribet is the president of the American Mathematical Society. He played a key role in the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. |
| 2018-Nov-05 • 63 minutes The Hope Diamond - with 3blue1brown Grant Sanderson makes incredibly popular math videos - but his views on math education may surprise you. |