Numberphile

  • Premiered: Nov 2011
  • Episodes: 772
  • Followers: 2
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Season 2025
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The Frobenius Problem (and numerical semigroups)
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Jan 10, 2025
Featuring Professor David Eisenbud discussing numerical semigroups. Also discussing Sylvester's Theorem, prime numbers and the Frobenius Number Problem.
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The Snakey Hexomino (unsolved Tic-Tac-Toe problem)
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Jan 20, 2025
Sophie Maclean explains Animal Tic-Tac-Toe - and why the Snakey hexomino is the only "unsolved" creature.
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The Slightly Bungled Mersenne Prime Origin Story
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Jan 26, 2025
Brady Haran is at the Royal Society looking at the book which resulted in the name "Mersenne Primes".
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Shakespeare, Numbers, and Chronograms
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Feb 05, 2025
Rob Eastaway looks at numbers, quirks, and codes (plus some conspiracy theories) in William Shakespeare's First Folio. Including some interesting historical stuff about the use of .. show full overview
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A Magic Square Breakthrough
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Feb 09, 2025
Matt Parker is back with Multi-Magic Squares and news of a mathematical breakthrough.
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A 1.58-Dimensional Object
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Mar 07, 2025
Featuring Ben Sparks on all sorts of fractals, Sierpiński triangles, and other amazing stuff including imaginary cubes...
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The Hyper Moser (and other Mega Numbers)
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Mar 14, 2025
Tony Padilla explores the Mega and Moser.
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The World's LONGEST Klein Bottle
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Apr 11, 2025
Cliff Stoll and Lucas Clarke stretch a Klein Bottle to record lengths.
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The Tea Lady Experiment
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Apr 15, 2025
Po-Ling Loh discusses hypothesis testing and a famous experiment involving cups of tea.
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Cardioids in Coffee Cups
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Apr 20, 2025
Featuring Ben Sparks...
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A Problem with Infinite Hotel Keys
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May 16, 2025
Tom Crawford poses a problem and finds an answer
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A simple equation that behaves weirdly
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Jun 17, 2025
Michael Magee explores a seemingly simple equation with hidden depths... And delves into Vieta jumping (or root flipping)

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