Numberphile

  • Premiered: Nov 2011
  • Episodes: 772
  • Followers: 2
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Season 2024
2024x1
A Sudoku Secret to Blow Your Mind
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Jan 04, 2024
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2024x2
The Most Mathematical Sudoku
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Jan 09, 2024
Simon Anthony (from Cracking the Cryptic) shows us an incredible sudoku set by a mathematician.
2024x3
Catalan Numbers
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Jan 29, 2024
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2024x4
The Z Factor
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Feb 01, 2024
Featuring Tom Crawford.
2024x5
The Game of Risk
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Feb 06, 2024
Mathematician and game enthusiast Marcus du Sautoy discusses the iconic game of Risk.
2024x6
The Return of -1/12
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Feb 15, 2024
Featuring Tony Feng from UC Berkeley.
2024x7
Does -1/12 Protect Us From Infinity?
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Feb 16, 2024
Ten years later... Professor Tony Padilla returns to the thorny issue of summing the integers arriving at -1/12.
2024x8
The Mystery of Hyperbolicity
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Feb 21, 2024
Featuring Professor Holly Krieger.
2024x9
What are these symbols?
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Mar 07, 2024
Asaf Karagila discusses some of the symbols used in Logic and Set Theory.
2024x10
A Bizarre Sudoku Set-Up
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Mar 17, 2024
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2024x11
Absolute Infinity
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Mar 19, 2024
Asaf Karagila takes us deep into the world of Infinity - from lazy eights to aleph to omega to tav.
2024x12
Magic Chess Tours (with Knights and Kings)
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Apr 01, 2024
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2024x13
Apocalyptic Numbers
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Apr 06, 2024
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2024x14
Goliath & Leviathan Numbers
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Apr 07, 2024
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2024x15
Interesting 666-digit Numbers
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Apr 08, 2024
Featuring Tony Padilla. See all three videos in this Apocalyptic Trilogy
2024x16
The Hydra Game
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Apr 18, 2024
Tom Crawford discusses Hercules and The Hydra Game.
2024x17
An amazing thing about 276
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May 01, 2024
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2024x18
343867 and Tetrahedral Numbers
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May 21, 2024
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2024x19
Cones are MESSED UP
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May 28, 2024
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2024x20
The Parker Paper (a lost treasure)
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Jun 07, 2024
Lost in the mists of time, the Parker Square returns.
2024x21
Pokémon and Geometric Distributions
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Jun 13, 2024
Tom Crawford is back and talks about some mathematics and proofs relating to Pokémon.
2024x22
Caboose Numbers
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Jun 18, 2024
Matt Parker explores caboose numbers, also known as Euler's Lucky Numbers.
2024x23
Tree-house Numbers
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Jun 19, 2024
Matt Parker goes on a mathematician's journey and shows us Heegner Numbers (and the Ramanujan Constant).
2024x24
Solving Seven
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Jun 25, 2024
Featuring Dr James Grime.
2024x25
Erdős–Woods Numbers
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Jun 30, 2024
Featuring Dr James Grime on Erdős–Woods Numbers.
2024x26
Winnie the Math Whiz
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Jul 02, 2024
Danica McKellar is famous for playing Winnie Cooper in The Wonder Years - but did you know she has proven a theorem and writes books about mathematics?
2024x27
The Big X
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Jul 04, 2024
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2024x28
The Freshman's Dream (a classic mistake)
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Jul 16, 2024
It's a classic mistake - but The Freshman's Dream can come true.
2024x29
New Recipe for Pi
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Jul 19, 2024
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2024x30
Pi-oneers (interview with Sinha & Saha)
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Jul 22, 2024
Talking to the men who have found a new formula for Pi.
2024x31
The Clever Way to Count Tanks
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Jul 31, 2024
How mathematics and probability cracked the puzzle of how many tanks were being produced by Nazi Germany during World War 2.
2024x32
The Lazy Way to Cut Pizza
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Aug 12, 2024
Tom Crawford shows us a mathematical (but lazy) way to cut a pizza.
2024x33
Goldbach Conjecture (but with TWIN PRIMES)
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Sep 14, 2024
Featuring Dr James Grime.
2024x34
Absolute Primes
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Sep 22, 2024
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2024x35
Fibonacci Frogs
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Sep 30, 2024
Tom Crawford discusses frogs jumping on lily pads.
2024x36
The Prime Constant - Numberphile
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Oct 06, 2024
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2024x37
An Odd Property of the Sierpiński Triangle
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Oct 20, 2024
Discussing the Sierpiński Triangle, Fermat Primes, and Constructible Polygons.
2024x38
The Man Who Found the World's Biggest Prime
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Oct 22, 2024
There's a new "world's biggest prime" and we spoke to the man who found it, Luke Durant.
2024x39
Planet Pi
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Oct 25, 2024
Asteroids (minor planets) are classified with numbers, but some of them are later given names. Matt Parker takes us on a tour... with a twist.
2024x40
Voting Paradoxes
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Oct 28, 2024
How to decide who wins a confusing vote, discussing the likes of Smith Sets and the Condorcet Paradox. Featuring Sophie Maclean.
2024x41
The Magic of Induction
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Nov 02, 2024
Asaf Karagila discusses proof by induction.
2024x42
The Change from Roman Numerals
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Nov 07, 2024
Featuring Rob Eastaway discussing Roman Numerals, Indo-Arabic numerals, and the diary of theatre owner Philip Henslowe (a contemporary of William Shakespeare)..
2024x43
Knot Surfaces
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Nov 15, 2024
Featuring Sophie Maclean and Ayliean MacDonald.
2024x44
Way Bigger Than Graham's Number (Goodstein Sequence)
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Nov 26, 2024
Featuring Richard Elwes.
2024x45
A Fascination with Fractured Friezes
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Dec 03, 2024
Featuring Professor Eleonore Faber discussing frieze patterns and polygons - and what happens when you cut them...
2024x46
Meeting Ernő Rubik
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Dec 05, 2024
80-year-old Hungarian Ernő Rubik created his legendary cube in 1974. The rest is history. Brady met him at international celebration of 50 years of the Rubik’s Cube which took place .. show full overview
2024x47
A Number to the Power of a Matrix
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Dec 12, 2024
The famed constant e is raised to the power of a matrix.
2024x48
The Anti-Parker Square
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Dec 17, 2024
Featuring Ayliean McDonald.
2024x49
Pentominoes and other Polyominoes
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Dec 23, 2024
Sophie Maclean discusses pentominoes and other polyominoes.

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