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2017
2017x1
Balancing a Ruler
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How to find a ruler's centre of gravity.
2017x2
Sandpiles
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Luis David Garcia-Puente discusses sandpiles, and how they produce amazing "fractal zeroes".
2017x3
The Feigenbaum Constant (4.669) - Numberphile
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This episode has no summary.
2017x3
Mathematics: Beauty vs Utility
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Should mathematics be done for its pure beauty or should it have practical uses? And why are many mathematicians so bad at outreach?
2017x4
Spider-Man (Cédric Villani)
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Fields Medallist and math "celebrity" Cédric Villani is famous for wearing ornate spiders on his lapel.
2017x5
RSA-129
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The large number "RSA-129" posed a challenge experts said would take 40 quadrillion years to solve - but took 17.
2017x6
The Four 4s
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It was a famous problem for many years - until a physics genius solved it all the way to infinity.
2017x7
Binder Clip Climber
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Featuring Tadashi Tokieda.
2017x8
383 is cool
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2017x9
Frog Jumping
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Featuring Gordon Hamilton from Math Pickle. More links below.
2017x10
The Illumination Problem
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Featuring Professor Howard Masur from the University of Chicago. Filmed at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI).
2017x11
Problems with Periodic Orbits
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Featuring Professor Howard Masur from the University of Chicago. Filmed at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI).
2017x12
Stable Rollers
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Tadashi Tokieda is back. This time talking about stability, instability and train wheels.
2017x13
Pascal's Triangle
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Just a few fun properties of Pascal's Triangle - discussed by Casandra Monroe, undergraduate math major at Princeton University. Filmed during the MSRI-UP summer program.
2017x14
The World's Best Mathematician (*)
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(*) Among current mathematicians, many people regard Professor Tao as the world's finest... Opinions on such things vary, of course.
2017x15
The Four Color Map Theorem
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The Four Color Map Theorem (or colour!?) was a long-standing problem until it was cracked in 1976 using a "new" method... computers!
2017x16
The Moving Sofa Problem
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Featuring Dan Romik from UC Davis.
2017x17
Collatz Conjecture in Color
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This video features Alex Bellos. Extra footage with Alex and coloring: https://youtu.be/w8nc8wbgXPU
2017x17
Reflected Cats
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Yes, it's a cat video on YouTube.
2017x18
Twin Prime Conjecture
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Dr James Maynard is a leading figure in recent progress on the Twin Prime Conjecture.
2017x19
The 10,958 Problem
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Featuring Matt Parker... Part 2 (solution) here: https://youtu.be/pasyRUj7UwM
2017x20
A 10,958 Solution
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Previous video sets this up: https://youtu.be/-ruC5A9EzzE
2017x23
Chaos Game
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This episode has no summary.
2017x21
Apéry's constant (calculated with Twitter)
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Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/numberphile
2017x22
Speed Unboxing - Calculat
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Eight calculators professionally unboxed in just 31 minutes.
2017x23
Goldbach Conjecture
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Professor David Eisenbud on the famed Goldbach Conjecture.
2017x24
210 is VERY Goldbachy
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Carl Pomerance discusses 210 and its special relationship with Goldbach's Conjecture.
2017x25
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
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Marcus du Sautoy discusses Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
2017x26
Gödel's Incompleteness (extra footage 1)
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MAIN VIDEO: https://youtu.be/O4ndIDcDSGc
2017x29
Gödel's Incompleteness (extra footage 1)
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This episode has no summary.
2017x27
Squared Squares
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Featuring Dr James Grime.
2017x28
A Nice Square
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Extra footage from our Squared Squares video: https://youtu.be/NoRjwZomUK0
2017x29
13532385396179
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A number which could earn its "finder" a $1000 prize.
2017x33
4D MONKEY DUST
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This episode has no summary.
2017x30
A Quick Cake Conundrum
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A quick little problem from Cliff Stoll, who baked a birthday cake for Brady... More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓
2017x31
Math vs Physics
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Robbert Dijkgraaf is a mathematical physicist. Extra footage from this interview: https://youtu.be/FpkvNJCVEUA
2017x32
How many particles in the Universe?
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2017x33
Large Gaps between Primes
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James Maynard on discoveries about large gaps between prime numbers.
2017x34
The Kolakoski Sequence
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2017x35
Derangements
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Derangements featuring Dr James Grime.
2017x36
Aaron Numbers
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A story of baseball, number theory, and serendipity.
2017x37
When do clock hands overlap?
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How often do a clock's minute and hour hands cross? Featuring Cliff Stoll..... See Objectivity at: https://www.youtube.com/c/ObjectivityVideos
2017x38
Braids in Higher Dimensions
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Braids and the fourth dimension, with Dr Zsuzsanna Dancso.
2017x39
The Trinity Hall Prime
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A prime number "gift" from a mathematicians leaving his college.
2017x40
Casting Out Nines
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Dr James Grime and a handy trick for checking calculations. Ditch the nines...
2017x41
The Neverending Story (and Droste Effect)
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Cliff wants to tell a story on a Möbius strip... And discusses recursive hot chocolate!?
2017x42
Strange Spheres in Higher Dimensions
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Video features Matt Parker.
2017x43
Equally sharing a cake between three people
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This video features Dr Hannah Fry.
2017x44
Juggling by Numbers
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Juggling with Colin Wright.
2017x45
Fibonacci Numbers hidden in the Mandelbrot Set
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With Dr Holly Krieger from Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.
2017x46
Secrets to measuring a piece of paper
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When Cliff Stoll sets your homework, there's always an extra lesson.
2017x47
The Enormous TREE(3)
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Professor Tony Padilla on the epic number, TREE(3). Continues at: https://youtu.be/IihcNa9YAPk
2017x55
The Enormous TREE(3)
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Professor Tony Padilla on the epic number, TREE(3).
2017x48
Pancake Numbers
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Katie Steckles on Pancake Numbers..
2017x49
The Ideal Auction
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Preston McAfee is the chief economist at Microsoft.
2017x50
78557 and Proth Primes
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James Grime is back and talking prime numbers.
2017x51
An unexpected way to inflate a balloon
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Using a kamifusen (a Japanese paper balloon). Featuring Tadashi Tokieda.
2017x52
An astonishing old calculator
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Cliff explains his passion for two Friden EC-132s.
2017x53
Don Bradman's Duck
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One of the most famous stories from the sort of cricket involves numbers, averages, and a duck.
2017x54
Ham Sandwich Problem
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This video features Dr Hannah Fry (more links below) ↓↓↓