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2016
2016x1
The iPhone of Slide Rules
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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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Shapes, Tableaux and Hook Numbers. Featuring Professor Curtis Greene from Haverford College.
2016x3
Fantastic Quaternions
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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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2016x5
How they found the World's Biggest Prime Number
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2016x6
Triangles have a Magic Highway
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2016x7
The Mathematics of Crime and Terrorism
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2016x8
Strange Spinning Tubes
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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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Three calculators from Staples receive our forensic examination.
2016x10
The Millionaire Machine
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Cliff is back with an amazing device - The Millionaire.
2016x11
Shuffling Card Trick
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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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Carlo Sequin talks through platonic solids and regular polytopes in higher dimensions.
2016x13
Are you REALLY sick? (false positives)
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Bayes' Theorem applied to disease diagnosis. Featuring Lisa Goldberg from UC Berkeley Department of Statistics.
2016x14
Crank Files
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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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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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2016x17
The Parker Square
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Matt Parker reveals his pride and joy - the mysterious Parker Square!
2016x18
Magic Square Party Trick
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Matt Parker shows off his Magic Square party trick (unlike magicians, mathematicians often reveal their secrets).
2016x19
Perplexing Paperclips
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Featuring Tadashi Tokieda.
2016x20
Partitions
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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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Part One: https://youtu.be/wGkvyN6s9cY
2016x22
The Last Digit of Prime Numbers
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Dr James Grime on a new discovery in the Prime Numbers.
2016x23
The Key to the Riemann Hypothesis
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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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Tadashi Tokieda puts $20 on the line...
2016x27
Let's Talk About Sets
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Dr Bobby Wilson talks about sets... Sum-free sets, fractal sets... All sorts of sets.
2016x28
Borromean Ribbons
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Tadashi Tokieda is talking about Borromean links again - this time using ribbons.
2016x29
The Fields Medal (with Cédric Villani)
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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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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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A breakthrough by a Numberphile viewer (with help from some computers).
2016x32
Little Fibs
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A card trick which involves some little fibs.
2016x33
Consecutive Coin Flips
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This video features Dr James Grime.
2016x34
Three Gears are Possible
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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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2016x35
Surreal Numbers (writing the first book)
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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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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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Dr James Grime discusses highly composite numbers.
2016x37
5040 and other Anti-Prime Numbers
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Dr James Grime discusses highly composite numbers.
2016x38
Speed Solve of a Rubik's Cube in Slow Motion
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Solve by Ryan Jones. Music by Alan Stewart.
2016x39
The Prime Problem with a One Sentence Proof
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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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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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Professor Ken Ribet discusses a mathematical problem involving bagels - and some clever combinatorics.
2016x42
Paper Calculator
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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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Cliff Stoll shows off an electric-powered slide rule.
2016x44
UNCRACKABLE? The Collatz Conjecture
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Catch David on the Numberphile podcast: https://youtu.be/9y1BGvnTyQA
2016x45
A Strange Change of Rotation
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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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2016x47
The Secret of Floppy Paper
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Tadashi is back, this time looking at drooping paper (and toilet paper).
2016x48
The Mathematician's Office
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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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A printing calculator with a dangerous twist? The Casio HR-100TE Plus-W.
2016x50
Coffee Cup Vibrations
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Tadashi explores coffee and tea cups to new depths...
2016x51
A Hole in a Hole in a Hole
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Cliff's glassware: http://bit.ly/ACME_Klein
2016x52
Fair Dice (Part 1)
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Probability expert Professor Persi Diaconis (Stanford University) talking about dice.
2016x53
Fair Dice (Part 2)
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Probability expert Professor Persi Diaconis (Stanford University) talking about dice.
2016x54
The Most Powerful Dice
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Tadashi explores a special set of dice... And has a powerful lesson.
2016x55
Space-Filling Curves
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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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The harmonic series and the elusive Euler–Mascheroni constant.
2016x57
Lace Knot Trick
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Playlist of Tadashi Tokieda videos: http://bit.ly/tadashi_vids
2016x58
Imagining Numbers as Shapes
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Thanks to sponsor Great Courses Plus: http://ow.ly/NURF302dIJV
2016x25
The Josephus Problem
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2016x59
The Josephus Problem
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The Josephus Problem, featuring Daniel Erman from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2016x60
The Seven Bridges of Königsberg
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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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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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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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Featuring Gordon Hamilton from Math Pickle.
2016x64
The Problems with Secret Santa
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Dr Hannah Fry discusses Secret Santa, anonymity and derangements. And a better way to do it.
2016x65
Too Many Triangles
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How many triangles are too many? Featuring Henry Segerman from Oklahoma State University.
2016x66
The Shortest Ever Papers
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Tony Padilla discusses some of the shortest math papers to be published. From Conway to Nash.
2016x67
Super Bottle
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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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Dr James Grime discusses "e" - the famed Euler's Number.
2016x69
Incredible Formula
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Dr James Grime discusses a couple of clever formulas which are pandigital - using all the numbers from 1-9.