Numberphile

  • Premiered: Nov 2011
  • Episodes: 772
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Season 2016
2016x1
The iPhone of Slide Rules
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Jan 06, 2016
Alex Bellos discusses slide rules and then the Halden Calculex, which he describes as the "iPhone of Slide Rules"
2016x2
Shapes and Hook Numbers
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Jan 08, 2016
Shapes, Tableaux and Hook Numbers. Featuring Professor Curtis Greene from Haverford College.
2016x3
Fantastic Quaternions
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Jan 18, 2016
Dr James Grime discusses a type of number beyond the complex numbers, and why they are useful.
2016x4
New World's Biggest Prime Number (PRINTED FULLY ON PAPER)
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Jan 20, 2016
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2016x5
How they found the World's Biggest Prime Number
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Jan 21, 2016
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2016x6
Triangles have a Magic Highway
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Feb 01, 2016
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2016x7
The Mathematics of Crime and Terrorism
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Feb 03, 2016
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2016x8
Strange Spinning Tubes
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Feb 12, 2016
Tadashi is back with more mathematical toys - this time small tubes which do intriguing things when they spin.
2016x9
Calculator Unboxing #6 (Staples collection)
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Feb 19, 2016
Three calculators from Staples receive our forensic examination.
2016x10
The Millionaire Machine
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Feb 24, 2016
Cliff is back with an amazing device - The Millionaire.
2016x11
Shuffling Card Trick
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Mar 02, 2016
Jason Davison shows us a cool card trick using the so-called Gilbreath Principle. More card videos from Numberphile: http://bit.ly/Cards_Shuffling
2016x12
Perfect Shapes in Higher Dimensions
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Mar 23, 2016
Carlo Sequin talks through platonic solids and regular polytopes in higher dimensions.
2016x13
Are you REALLY sick? (false positives)
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Mar 28, 2016
Bayes' Theorem applied to disease diagnosis. Featuring Lisa Goldberg from UC Berkeley Department of Statistics.
2016x14
Crank Files
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Mar 31, 2016
Keith Moore from the Royal Society shows Matt Parker (and Brady) a few math papers from the society archives.
2016x15
The Heart of Fermat's Last Theorem
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Apr 06, 2016
Modularity... Simon Pampena gets to the heart of proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
2016x16
Weird But Fair Dice (plus the D120)
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Apr 11, 2016
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2016x17
The Parker Square
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Apr 18, 2016
Matt Parker reveals his pride and joy - the mysterious Parker Square!
2016x18
Magic Square Party Trick
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Apr 19, 2016
Matt Parker shows off his Magic Square party trick (unlike magicians, mathematicians often reveal their secrets).
2016x19
Perplexing Paperclips
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Apr 26, 2016
Featuring Tadashi Tokieda.
2016x20
Partitions
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Apr 28, 2016
Partitions are a major part of the Ramanujan story (as shown in the new film about his life) - but what are they?
2016x21
Subtracting Paperclips
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May 02, 2016
Part One: https://youtu.be/wGkvyN6s9cY
2016x22
The Last Digit of Prime Numbers
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May 04, 2016
Dr James Grime on a new discovery in the Prime Numbers.
2016x23
The Key to the Riemann Hypothesis
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May 10, 2016
L-Functions are likely to play a key role in proving the Riemann Hypothesis, says Professor Jon Keating from the University of Bristol.
2016x26
Money Catching
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May 13, 2016
Tadashi Tokieda puts $20 on the line...
2016x27
Let's Talk About Sets
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May 17, 2016
Dr Bobby Wilson talks about sets... Sum-free sets, fractal sets... All sorts of sets.
2016x28
Borromean Ribbons
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May 19, 2016
Tadashi Tokieda is talking about Borromean links again - this time using ribbons.
2016x29
The Fields Medal (with Cédric Villani)
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May 23, 2016
Cédric Villani won the Fields Medal in 2010. You can learn more in his excellent book Birth of a Theorem.
2016x30
Catching Kendama
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May 26, 2016
Tadashi's back (for the final video in this mini series) demonstrating the Kendama and some angular momentum.
2016x31
74 is cracked
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May 31, 2016
A breakthrough by a Numberphile viewer (with help from some computers).
2016x32
Little Fibs
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Jun 02, 2016
A card trick which involves some little fibs.
2016x33
Consecutive Coin Flips
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Jun 08, 2016
This video features Dr James Grime.
2016x34
Three Gears are Possible
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Jun 10, 2016
Henry Segerman (mathematician and 3D printing guru) discusses how to make three gears work together.
2016x33
The Remarkable Way We Eat Pizza - Numberphile
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Jun 16, 2016
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2016x35
Surreal Numbers (writing the first book)
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Jun 27, 2016
Donald Knuth coined the term "Surreal Numbers" and wrote the first book about them after lunch with the man who devised them, John Conway.
2016x35
Calculator Unboxing #7 (Gaxio)
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Jul 01, 2016
Matt Parker appears courtesy of the South Surrey and Associated Regions Calculator Appreciation Society for Professionals and Amateurs
2016x24
5040 and other Anti-Prime Numbers
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Jul 06, 2016
Dr James Grime discusses highly composite numbers.
2016x37
5040 and other Anti-Prime Numbers
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Jul 06, 2016
Dr James Grime discusses highly composite numbers.
2016x38
Speed Solve of a Rubik's Cube in Slow Motion
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Jul 10, 2016
Solve by Ryan Jones. Music by Alan Stewart.
2016x39
The Prime Problem with a One Sentence Proof
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Jul 18, 2016
A prime number problem posed by Fermat that has been proved multiple times - including a famous proof using one just sentence.
2016x40
Penney's Game
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Jul 20, 2016
Dr James Grime discusses Penney's Game - a cool probability trick to play with your friends.
2016x41
Stars and Bars (and bagels)
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Jul 25, 2016
Professor Ken Ribet discusses a mathematical problem involving bagels - and some clever combinatorics.
2016x42
Paper Calculator
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Jul 31, 2016
Comic book genius Jason Shiga shows us a calculator made of paper. We've got more coming from Jason which will explain WHY he made this (besides the fact it is just cool!)
2016x43
The Electric Slide Rule
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Aug 03, 2016
Cliff Stoll shows off an electric-powered slide rule.
2016x44
UNCRACKABLE? The Collatz Conjecture
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Aug 08, 2016
Catch David on the Numberphile podcast: https://youtu.be/9y1BGvnTyQA
2016x45
A Strange Change of Rotation
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Aug 14, 2016
Rotating cedar balls. Here's a playlist of Tadashi Tokieda videos: http://bit.ly/tadashi_vids
2016x46
The Legend of Question Six
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Aug 16, 2016
Free trial at Great Courses Plus: http://ow.ly/7Hh2302dIFt
2016x47
The Secret of Floppy Paper
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Aug 22, 2016
Tadashi is back, this time looking at drooping paper (and toilet paper).
2016x48
The Mathematician's Office
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Aug 25, 2016
Cedric Villani is one of the world's most famous mathematicians. What does he keep in his office, and how important is his office to doing inspirational mathematics?
2016x49
Calculator Unboxing #8 (Printing Digits)
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Aug 29, 2016
A printing calculator with a dangerous twist? The Casio HR-100TE Plus-W.
2016x50
Coffee Cup Vibrations
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Sep 05, 2016
Tadashi explores coffee and tea cups to new depths...
2016x51
A Hole in a Hole in a Hole
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Sep 08, 2016
Cliff's glassware: http://bit.ly/ACME_Klein
2016x52
Fair Dice (Part 1)
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Sep 14, 2016
Probability expert Professor Persi Diaconis (Stanford University) talking about dice.
2016x53
Fair Dice (Part 2)
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Sep 15, 2016
Probability expert Professor Persi Diaconis (Stanford University) talking about dice.
2016x54
The Most Powerful Dice
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Sep 20, 2016
Tadashi explores a special set of dice... And has a powerful lesson.
2016x55
Space-Filling Curves
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Sep 26, 2016
Henry Segerman shows us some 3D-printed space-filling curves, including the Hilbert Curve and Dragon Curve.
2016x56
The mystery of 0.577
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Oct 05, 2016
The harmonic series and the elusive Euler–Mascheroni constant.
2016x57
Lace Knot Trick
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Oct 10, 2016
Playlist of Tadashi Tokieda videos: http://bit.ly/tadashi_vids
2016x58
Imagining Numbers as Shapes
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Oct 18, 2016
Thanks to sponsor Great Courses Plus: http://ow.ly/NURF302dIJV
2016x25
The Josephus Problem
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Oct 28, 2016
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2016x59
The Josephus Problem
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Oct 28, 2016
The Josephus Problem, featuring Daniel Erman from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2016x60
The Seven Bridges of Königsberg
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Nov 02, 2016
This video features Cliff Stoll... and the work of Leonhard Euler.
2016x61
How to Check Election Results (feat. Pólya's Urn)
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Nov 07, 2016
Professor Ron Rivest discusses a technique for post election audits - taking small samples and using Pólya's Urn.
2016x62
Was YOUR vote counted? (feat. homomorphic encryption)
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Nov 07, 2016
How to be sure your vote was counted ---- "End to End Verifiable Voting" with cryptopgraphy expert Professor Ron Rivest.
2016x63
Mondrian Puzzle
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Nov 14, 2016
Featuring Gordon Hamilton from Math Pickle.
2016x64
The Problems with Secret Santa
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Nov 22, 2016
Dr Hannah Fry discusses Secret Santa, anonymity and derangements. And a better way to do it.
2016x65
Too Many Triangles
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Nov 28, 2016
How many triangles are too many? Featuring Henry Segerman from Oklahoma State University.
2016x66
The Shortest Ever Papers
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Dec 07, 2016
Tony Padilla discusses some of the shortest math papers to be published. From Conway to Nash.
2016x67
Super Bottle
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Dec 13, 2016
Professor Carlo Séquin explains super bottles - and a super duper bottle. More Klein Bottle videos: http://bit.ly/KleinBottles
2016x68
e (Euler's Number)
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Dec 19, 2016
Dr James Grime discusses "e" - the famed Euler's Number.
2016x69 Season finale
Incredible Formula
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Dec 23, 2016
Dr James Grime discusses a couple of clever formulas which are pandigital - using all the numbers from 1-9.

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