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Interviews with people who love numbers and mathematics. Hosted by Brady Haran, maker of the Numberphile series on YouTube.

The Numberphile Podcast Brady Haran

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Interviews with people who love numbers and mathematics. Hosted by Brady Haran, maker of the Numberphile series on YouTube.

    An A-Class Reject - with Ed Copeland

    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 with episode sponsor Jane Street
    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

    • 1 hr 4 min
    A Chain of Chance - with Michael Merrifield

    A Chain of Chance - with Michael Merrifield

    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

    • 1 hr 6 min
    Finding a Path - with Tatiana Toro

    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/

    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

    • 43 min
    An Educated Adult - with Tadashi Tokieda

    An Educated Adult - with Tadashi Tokieda

    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

    • 1 hr 13 min
    The Orchid Room and Cancer - with Hannah Fry

    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 - 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

    • 36 min
    A Passion for Big Numbers (and Liverpool FC) - with Tony Padilla

    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.

    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

    • 50 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
420 Ratings

420 Ratings

the Neanderthal ,

Great

Very approachable. More about the people than the math, but there’s fun talk for us maths people too.

mrpink25 ,

Fantastic podcast

If you like any part of mathematics, these conversations are amazing. Cannot recommend enough.

jfjdjehe ,

An educated adult

An educated adult was the most interesting, best episode to date, check it out/

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