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    Natural Sciences

    The Numberphile Podcast

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

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    Latest Episodes:
    A Chain of Chance - with Michael Merrifield Jan 18, 2023
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    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

    Professor Michael Merrifield

    Mike's Twitter

    Mike Merrifield Video Playlist

    Sixty Symbols - Physics videos, many featuring Mike

    Deep Sky Videos

    Messier Objects Playlist

    Ralph Merrifield

    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

    You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people

    With thanks to SLMath

    Finding a Path - with Tatiana Toro Dec 13, 2022
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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).

    SL Math website

    Announcement of Professor Toro's appointment

    MSRI is renamed SL Math

    Professor Toro's University of Washington webpage

    Podcast with David Eisenbud - Professor Toro's predecessor

    An Educated Adult - with Tadashi Tokieda Jul 11, 2022
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    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.

    Tadashi at Stanford

    Tadashi videos on Numberphile

    Lev Davidovich Landau

    You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people

    With thanks to MSRI

    The Orchid Room and Cancer - with Hannah Fry May 29, 2022
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    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

    Telegraph Article

    Hannah Fry website

    Hannah Fry books - Amazon

    Numberphile videos with Hannah

    Hannah previously on the podcast

    Macmillan Cancer Support

    NHS Cancer help

    You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people

    With thanks to MSRI

    A Passion for Big Numbers (and Liverpool FC) - with Tony Padilla Apr 18, 2022
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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

    You can 'watch' the podcasts, including this one, on YouTube

    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

    The Numberphile Podcast by Brady Haran

    The First and Last Digits of Pi Mar 14, 2022
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    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

    On Bandcamp

    YouTube track playlist

    YouTube album discussions and score analysis

    Martin Krzywinski

    62.8 trillion digit computation of Pi

    Some of Martin's previous Pi visualisations can be found here

    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

    An Infinite Debt - with Christopher Havens (Prisoner #349034) Feb 13, 2022
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    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.

    Catch this episode on YouTube

    The Prison Mathematics Project

    The Paper: Linear fractional transformations and non-linear leaping convergents of some continued fractions

    Article by Marta Cerruti on The Conversation

    You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people

    With thanks to MSRI

    The Little Star - with Zvezdelina Stankova Jan 13, 2022
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    Mathematician Zvezdelina Stankova was born in Bulgaria and is now a teaching professor at UC Berkeley.

    Zvezda's webpage

    Zvezda videos on Numberphile

    The Legend of Question Six

    Berkeley Math Circle

    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

    Google's 'DeepMind' does Mathematics Dec 02, 2021
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    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

    DeepMind blog on this topic

    Nature article on the topic

    Article from The Conversation by Geordie Williamson, who worked on the project

    Marcus du Sautoy

    The Creativity Code - book on Amazon

    Collaborator Geordie Williamson

    Collaborator Marc Lackenby

    Collaborator 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/

    You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people

    With thanks to MSRI

    Making Sense of Infinity - with Asaf Karagila Aug 28, 2021
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    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

    Asaf's Twitter

    Some Infinity stuff on Numberphile

    You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people

    With thanks to MSRI

    This episode was also made possible by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship

    UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship MR/T021705/1

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