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The Numberphile Podcast

Interviews with people who love numbers and mathematics. Hosted by Brady Haran, maker of the Numberp

Episodes

Total: 55

There’s a new largest known prime number and we speak to all the key players, including the discover

Ellen Eischen is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon. Here she discusses creativi

Catch a video version of this episode at: https://youtu.be/xMAiBBxQGZIDanica McKellar is best-known

This podcast marks the passing of James Harris Simons, better-known as Jim.The interviewees are John

Donald Knuth is unquestionably a legend of computer science and mathematics - but he is bad at estim

Data journalist Walt Hickey looks deep into the numbers behind movies, TV shows, and all types of po

Federico Ardila is a combinatorialist at San Francisco State University.He’s Colombian and in this e

Oxford mathematician James Maynard explains why he feared accidentally refusing the most famous priz

He dreamed of being a great cricketer - but his love for equations led Ed Copeland to a career in th

Astronomer Mike Merrifield had terrible handwriting and dreamed of captaining a submarine - now he's

From a challenging situation in Bogota to a prestigious job in US academia, Tatiana Toro wants to he

Tadashi Tokieda is a Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University - and a popular contributor to

Professor Hannah Fry discusses her cervical cancer diagnosis - and subsequent attempt to make sense

Tony Padilla is known on Numberphile for tackling the big numbers... But by day he's a cosmologist a

Data visualisation guru Martin Krzywinski has teamed up with composer Gregory Coles to make music ba

Christopher Havens is serving a 25-year prison sentence for murder - but behind bars he's seeking re

Mathematician Zvezdelina Stankova was born in Bulgaria and is now a teaching professor at UC Berkele

A breakthrough paper is published about using artificial intelligence to do mathematics - we discuss

From high school drop-out to set theorist, Asaf Karagila shares his journey towards infinity. Asaf

Mathematical greatness can strike at any time - even on the train between Oxford and London. Marcus