Numberphile

  • Premiered: Nov 2011
  • Episodes: 772
  • Followers: 2
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Season 2022
2022x1
Stones on an Infinite Chessboard
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Jan 10, 2022
Another curious puzzle and number sequence from Neil Sloane.
2022x2
What is a Number?
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Jan 14, 2022
Featuring Asaf Karagila.
2022x3
Tunnelling through a Mountain
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Jan 23, 2022
Featuring Professor Hannah Fry
2022x4
The Plotting of Beautiful Curves (Euler Spirals and Sierpiński Triangles)
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Feb 01, 2022
This the first or two parts with Matt Henderson and his plotter - more *very* soon.
2022x5
Plotting Pi and Searching for Mona Lisa
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Feb 02, 2022
Matt Henderson lets his plotter loose on Pi.
2022x6
The Mathematics of Surviving Zombies
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Feb 10, 2022
With Thomas Woolley...
2022x7
The Tetrahedral Boat
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Feb 26, 2022
Featuring Marcus du Sautoy discussing polyhedra and the art of Conrad Shawcross...
2022x8
The Coca-Cola Klein Bottle
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Mar 09, 2022
Cliff Stoll - the King of Klein Bottles - shows us more designs, including the Coke Klein Bottle...
2022x9
The Reciprocals of Primes
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Mar 14, 2022
Matt Parker explores the work of William Shanks - and boots up the ShanksBot.
2022x10
Big Factorials
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Mar 24, 2022
Large factorials and the use of Stirling's Approximation. Featuring Professor Ken McLaughlin.
2022x11
Twin Proofs for Twin Primes
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Mar 27, 2022
With Ben Sparks...
2022x12
How do fish swim so quickly?
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Mar 30, 2022
Featuring Tadashi Tokieda...
2022x13
Drawing an Egg (with a Pentagon)
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Apr 16, 2022
Featuring Johnny Ball...
2022x14
Euler's Formula
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Apr 24, 2022
Tom Crawford shows us some cool things about Euler's Formula...
2022x15
How to write 100,000,000,000,000 poems
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May 03, 2022
Marcus du Sautoy on the clever use of mathematics to generate poetry...
2022x16
Two Candles, One Cake
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May 10, 2022
Featuring Ben Sparks.
2022x17
Two Candles, One Cake (Part 2)
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May 11, 2022
This episode has no summary.
2022x18
A number NOBODY has thought of
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May 17, 2022
Featuring Tony Padilla.
2022x19
The Troublemaker Number
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May 23, 2022
Dr Harini Desiraju discusses Somos Sequences and a number which breaks a streak.
2022x20
Primes and Primitive Sets (an Erdős Conjecture is cracked)
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Jun 16, 2022
Featuring Jared Duker Lichtman.
2022x21
Mathematical Hugs (and Chiral Knots)
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Jun 21, 2022
Featuring Ayliean MacDonald.
2022x22
Are there 10^272,000 Universes?
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Jun 28, 2022
Featuring Tony Padilla.
2022x23
Epic Induction
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Aug 03, 2022
Featuring Zvezdelina Stankova...
2022x24
The Notorious Question Six (cracked by Induction)
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Aug 05, 2022
Featuring Zvezdelina Stankova...
2022x25
The Nescafé Equation (43 coffee beans)
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Aug 13, 2022
Cliff scrutinizes the lyrics of a Nescafé advertisement dealing with the brand's famed 43 beans.
2022x26
Why 7 is Weird
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Aug 22, 2022
Thanks to Jane Street for their support...
2022x27
The Dumbest Way To Solve A Maze
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Sep 11, 2022
Featuring Matt Henderson.
2022x28
Problems with Powers of Two
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Sep 21, 2022
Featuring Neil Sloane from the OEIS.
2022x29
An Integration Conundrum
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Oct 19, 2022
This episode has no summary.
2022x30
The Truth About Fibs
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Oct 26, 2022
This episode has no summary.
2022x31
Paterson Primes (with 3Blue1Brown)
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Nov 04, 2022
This episode has no summary.
2022x32
Prime Pyramid (with 3Blue1Brown)
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Nov 06, 2022
This episode has no summary.
2022x33
A Number Sequence with Everything
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Nov 09, 2022
This episode has no summary.
2022x34
Cow-culus and Elegant Geometry
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Nov 14, 2022
This episode has no summary.
2022x35
A Hairy Problem (and a Feathery Solution)
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Nov 20, 2022
This episode has no summary.
2022x36
Making a Glass Klein Bottle
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Nov 24, 2022
This episode has no summary.
2022x37
The Puzzling Fourth Dimension (and exotic shapes)
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Dec 01, 2022
This episode has no summary.
2022x38
A Problem with the Parallel Postulate
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Dec 15, 2022
Featuring Juanita Pinzón Caicedo from University of Notre Dame.
2022x39
The Search for Siegel Zeros
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Dec 19, 2022
Featuring Professor Tony Padilla.
2022x40
The Goat Problem
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Dec 24, 2022
Featuring James Grime...

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