Numberphile

  • Premiered: Nov 2011
  • Episodes: 772
  • Followers: 2
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Season 2023
2023x1
Card Memorisation (using numbers)
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Jan 08, 2023
Featuring Zoe Griffiths.
2023x2
The Yellowstone Permutation
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Jan 29, 2023
Featuring Neil Sloane.
2023x3
Triangle Subdivision
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Feb 09, 2023
Featuring Professor Volkmar Welker from Philipps-Universität Marburg.
2023x4
The Light Switch Problem
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Feb 16, 2023
This is also widely known as The Locker Problem - we liked the light switches better!
2023x5
The Prime Number Race (with 3Blue1Brown)
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Feb 23, 2023
Grant Sanderson discusses a race between two types of prime numbers - and an unexpected result.
2023x6
The Distance Between Numbers
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Feb 28, 2023
Tom discusses a series that, by one definition, has an unexpected property.
2023x7
Your Klein Bottle is in the Post
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Mar 07, 2023
Klein bottle enthusiast Cliff Stoll shows us his unique system for sending bottles to customers.
2023x8
The Perfect Goal Kicking Angle
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Mar 16, 2023
Ben Sparks reveals the formula for optimal goal kicking...
2023x9
The Math of Species Conflict
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Mar 30, 2023
Featuring Thomas Woolley and some squirrels...
2023x10
The Journey to 3264
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Apr 02, 2023
Professor David Eisenbud talks about conics, and visits a few numbers along the way.
2023x11
Go First Dice
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Apr 18, 2023
James Grime reveals a breakthrough in the dice world.
2023x12
Discovery about Book Embedding of Graphs
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Apr 30, 2023
Featuring James Grime.
2023x13
Practical Numbers
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May 18, 2023
Featuring Dr James Grime.
2023x14
Parabolic Mirrors
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May 26, 2023
Featuring Tom Crawford.
2023x15
The Brick Factory Problem
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May 31, 2023
Featuring Dr James Grime...
2023x16
Magic Squares of Squares (are PROBABLY impossible)
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Jun 13, 2023
Tony Várilly-Alvarado uses surprising mathematics to show that a 3x3 Magic Square of Squares is highly unlikely.
2023x18
A New Tile in Newtyle
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Jun 26, 2023
We're in Newtyle, Scotland, to celebrate the discovery of an Aperiodic Monotile.
2023x19
Discovery of the Aperiodic Monotile
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Jun 26, 2023
An interview with Craig Kaplan, co-discoverer of the Aperiodic Monotile - the Holy Grail of Tiling.
2023x20
The Game of Set (and some variations)
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Jul 23, 2023
Mathematicians love the game of Set - and here are some variations on the classic. Featuring Catherine Hsu.
2023x21
Winning the Fields Medal
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Aug 02, 2023
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2023x22
Sleeping Beauty Paradox
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Aug 17, 2023
Featuring Tom Crawford.
2023x23
Error Correcting Curves
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Sep 01, 2023
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2023x24
Travelling to the Stars by Ladder
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Sep 17, 2023
Featuring Tony Padilla.
2023x25
The Langlands Program
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Sep 28, 2023
Professor Edward Frenkel discusses the famed Langland Program - "a kind of grand unified theory of mathematics"
2023x26
Pi is Evil
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Oct 05, 2023
Featuring James Munro.
2023x27
Faulhaber's Fabulous Formula (and Bernoulli Numbers)
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Oct 17, 2023
Featuring Ellen Eischen from the University of Oregon.
2023x28
What's special about 288?
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Oct 24, 2023
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2023x29
23% Beyond the Riemann Hypothesis
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Oct 29, 2023
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2023x30
The Beautiful Math of Snakes and Ladders
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Nov 01, 2023
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2023x31
What are these strange dice?
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Nov 27, 2023
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2023x32
What are these strange dice? (Part 2)
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Nov 28, 2023
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2023x33
244,432,188,000 games of Catan
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Dec 05, 2023
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2023x34
Egyptian Fractions and the Greedy Algorithm
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Dec 12, 2023
Featuring Sophie Maclean.
2023x35
Infinite Circles
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Dec 19, 2023
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