Numberphile

  • Premiered: Nov 2011
  • Episodes: 772
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Season 2015
2015x1
Perfect Numbers and Mersenne Primes
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Jan 06, 2015
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2015x2
Perfect Number Proof
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Jan 06, 2015
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2015x3
Sum of Natural Numbers (second proof and extra footage)
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Jan 11, 2015
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2015x4
How to always win at Dots and Boxes
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Jan 12, 2015
This video features 'games legend' Elwyn Berlekamp.
2015x5
Something special about 399 (and 2015)
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Jan 15, 2015
It is the lowest Lucas-Carmichael Number... Featuring Ed Copeland.
2015x6
Winning at Rock Paper Scissors
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Jan 26, 2015
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2015x7
Rock Paper LIZARDS
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Jan 26, 2015
Hannah Fry on parallels between the game "rock paper scissors" and lizards in nature.
2015x8
How random is a coin toss?
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Jan 30, 2015
Randomness, coins and dental floss!
2015x9
Should you catch a tossed coin?
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Feb 01, 2015
Randomness expert (and former magician) Persi Diaconis on whether it is best to catch a coin or let it fall to the ground.
2015x10
Super Egg
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Feb 06, 2015
Supereggs, Superellipses and Sergels torg - featuring Alex Bellos.
2015x11
The Amazing Heptadecagon (17-gon)
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Feb 13, 2015
Professor David Eisenbud - director of MSRI - on the amazing 17-gon and its link to Gauss.
2015x12
Calculator Unboxing #5 (Little Professor)
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Feb 20, 2015
We're back with another unboxing by Matt Parker.
2015x13
Little Professor (Dr Grime's Toy Story)
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Feb 20, 2015
Dr James Grime on his beloved Little Professor.
2015x14
The Useless Number - Numberphile
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Feb 25, 2015
One of the first people to stumble over imaginary numbers (namely the square root of -15) thought it was "subtle" and "useless".
2015x15
58 and other Confusing Numbers
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Mar 06, 2015
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2015x16
The Bridges to Fermat's Last Theorem
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Mar 11, 2015
Ken Ribet - a key player in the solution to Fermat's Last Theorem - gives a taste of how real mathematics is done... piece by piece and by human beings.
2015x17
1 to 200 on Google Image Search
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Mar 20, 2015
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2015x18
The Best (and Worst) Ways to Shuffle Cards
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Mar 23, 2015
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2015x19
Looking at Perfect Shuffles
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Mar 25, 2015
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2015x20
52-Card Perfect Shuffles
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Mar 27, 2015
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2015x21
The Relationship Equation
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Apr 03, 2015
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2015x22
Ditching the Fifth Axiom
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Apr 10, 2015
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2015x23
The 'Everything' Formula
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Apr 15, 2015
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2015x24
That Viral Math Problem (Cheryl's Birthday)
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Apr 17, 2015
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2015x25
Monkeys and Coconuts
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Apr 29, 2015
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2015x26
Telescope Time without Tears
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May 07, 2015
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2015x27
Billionaire Mathematician
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May 13, 2015
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2015x28
Playing Sports in Hyperbolic Space
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May 18, 2015
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2015x29
How to Win a Guessing Game
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May 21, 2015
A clever use of random numbers to improve your odds in a number guessing game.
2015x30
More Hyperbolic Sports
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May 26, 2015
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2015x31
Embedding a Torus (John Nash)
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May 31, 2015
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2015x32
Numbers with Meaning
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Jun 05, 2015
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2015x33
Funny Fractions and Ford Circles
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Jun 09, 2015
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2015x34
Why 82,000 is an extraordinary number
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Jun 12, 2015
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2015x35
Klein Bottles
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Jun 22, 2015
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2015x36
The man with 1,000 Klein Bottles UNDER his house
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Jun 22, 2015
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2015x37
How to make a Klein Bottle (in three dimensions)
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Jun 24, 2015
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2015x38
Hunt for the Elusive 4th Klein Bottle
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Jun 24, 2015
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2015x39
Why 1980 was a great year to be born... but 2184 will be better
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Jun 29, 2015
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2015x40
The Brain of John Conway (and his Amazing Tongue)
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Jul 01, 2015
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2015x41
A Mysterious Math Doodle
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Jul 10, 2015
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2015x42
Elliptical Pool Table
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Jul 16, 2015
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2015x43
A Game for the Elliptical Pool Table
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Jul 16, 2015
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2015x44
How many chess games are possible?
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Jul 24, 2015
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2015x45
Six Dice One-Roll Yahtzee (in super slow motion)
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Jul 29, 2015
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2015x46
What is a Knot?
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Aug 03, 2015
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2015x47
The Curse of Lane 8
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Aug 06, 2015
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2015x48
Prime Knots
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Aug 10, 2015
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2015x49
Möbius Knots and Roller Coasters
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Aug 17, 2015
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2015x50
The 8 Queen Problem
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Aug 21, 2015
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2015x51
What's special about 196?
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Aug 28, 2015
Dr James Grime delves into the largely unresolved world of Lychrel Numbers?
2015x52
Numbers and Free Will
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Aug 31, 2015
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2015x53
The Infinitesimal Monad
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Sep 04, 2015
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2015x54
The Opposite of Infinity
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Sep 08, 2015
Continuing to talk Infinitesimals, this time with Dr James Grime.
2015x55
Langton's Ant
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Sep 14, 2015
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2015x56
Philosophy of Numbers
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Sep 18, 2015
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2015x57
Fold and Cut Theorem
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Sep 25, 2015
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2015x58
Pi and the Mandelbrot Set
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Oct 01, 2015
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2015x59
Powers of 2
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Oct 05, 2015
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2015x60
Kakeya's Needle Problem
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Oct 15, 2015
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2015x61
Skewes' Massive Number
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Oct 23, 2015
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2015x62
The Shape of DNA
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Oct 26, 2015
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2015x63
How DNA unties its own knots
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Nov 02, 2015
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2015x64
The Uncracked Problem with 33
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Nov 06, 2015
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2015x65
Cutting a Klein Bottle in Half
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Nov 11, 2015
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2015x66
Unexpected Shapes (Part 1)
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Nov 18, 2015
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2015x67
Unexpected Shapes (Part 2)
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Nov 19, 2015
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2015x68
Cute Paper Trick
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Nov 21, 2015
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2015x69
Tic-Tac-Toe (With Only X's)
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Nov 26, 2015
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2015x70
Secrets of 3-Board Tic-Tac-Toe
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Dec 01, 2015
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2015x71
Glitch Primes and Cyclops Numbers
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Dec 07, 2015
Simon Pampena on Glitch Primes and Binary Cyclops Numbers.
2015x72
Freaky Dot Patterns
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Dec 23, 2015
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2015x73 Season finale
Super-fast way to tie Shoelaces
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Dec 29, 2015
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