Data journalist Walt Hickey looks deep into the numbers behind movies, TV shows, and all types of popular culture.Walt’s new book is You Are What You Watch - https://amzn.to/3F8SwVoWalt’s Website - https://walthickey.comNumlock News - https://w

Yes, I accept the Fields Medal - with James Maynard

Aug 2nd, 2023 27m 59s

Oxford mathematician James Maynard explains why he feared accidentally refusing the most famous prize in mathematics.Watch this full interview on YouTube - https://youtu.be/yz-5BY_TTNIFull 2022 Fields Medal Winners - https://www.mathunion.o

Beauty in the Messiness - with Philip Moriarty

Apr 3rd, 2021 39m 5s

Experimental physicist Phil Moriarty works with temperamental microscopes and individual atoms. Today's topics include Ireland, mathematics, failing at university, microscopy, academic gripes... and music.Professor Moriarty's university page -

The High Jumping Cosmologist - with Katie Mack

Feb 25th, 2021 54m 53s

Astrophysicist Katie Mack discusses Twitter, athletics, mathematics, and the small matter of the fate of the Universe.Katie Mack's websiteAnd her Twitter @AstroKatieThe End of Everything - Dr Mack's book on AmazonThis episode was supported

Statistics and Saving Lives - with Jennifer Rogers

Dec 11th, 2020 55m 50s

Professor Jennifer Rogers discusses coronavirus vaccinations, the media, and her own path to medical statistics.Jennifer Rogers website, with links to all sorts of thingsJennifer's TEDx TalkJennifer has written about cornavirus vaccinations

Why Study Mathematics - with Vicky Neale

Dec 8th, 2020 45m 11s

Dr Vicky Neale's latest book is about why people should study mathematics - but why did SHE study mathematics?Dr Neale's website - with links to her work and books and craftWhy Study Mathematics - book on AmazonVicky's author page on Amazon

Nursery Rhymes and Numbers - with Alan Stewart

1 Oct 5th, 2020 54m 6s

Nursery Rhymes and Numbers - with Alan StewartA team of composers and musicians have joined forces to re-imagine classic nursery rhymes with new counts, timings and tempos. It's dubbed Tuplets for Toddlers, and has been led Numberphile's resid

The Importance of Numbers - with Tim Harford

Sep 12th, 2020 47m 29s

Economist Tim Harford on the importance of numbers and statistics.Tim Harford's website has links to most of his projectsTim's book How to Make the World Add Up - signed copies on Maths GearTim Harford books on AmazonTim's video on Numberph

Google's 'DeepMind' does Mathematics

Dec 2nd, 2021 37m 1s

A breakthrough paper is published about using artificial intelligence to do mathematics - we discuss it with DeepMind's Alex Davies and Professor Marcus du Sautoy.DeepMind - https://deepmind.comDeepMind blog on this topic - https://deepmind

A Chance at Immortality - with Marcus Du Sautoy

Jul 26th, 2021 51m 29s

Mathematical greatness can strike at any time - even on the train between Oxford and London.Marcus is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University - https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.ukMarcus' author page on Am

The Naked Mathematician - with Tom Crawford

May 31st, 2021 58m 12s

Dr Tom Crawford has been known to strip to his underwear in the interests of math education. He is an Early Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow at Oxford University.Tom's page at St Edmund Hall - https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/tom-crawford

The Hope Diamond - with 3blue1brown

Nov 5th, 2018 1h 3m

Grant Sanderson makes incredibly popular math videos - but his views on math education may surprise you.3blue1brown on YouTubeGrant's 'Hope Diamond' EyeThe actual Hope DiamondWith thanks to...MSRIMeyer SoundPodcast by Brady Haran

A Very Bad Estimator - with Donald Knuth

Jan 16th, 2024 54m 26s

Donald Knuth is unquestionably a legend of computer science and mathematics - but he is bad at estimation and grew up with a “rhinoceros attitude”.Don Knuth’s homepage - https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/The Art of Computer Programming

Finding Your Place - with Federico Ardila

Aug 23rd, 2023 54m 57s

Federico Ardila is a combinatorialist at San Francisco State University. He’s Colombian and in this episode he talks candidly about the struggles and prejudice encountered by people from different backgrounds as they try to make their mark in a

An A-Class Reject - with Ed Copeland

Feb 21st, 2023 1h 4m

He dreamed of being a great cricketer - but his love for equations led Ed Copeland to a career in theoretical physics.Check out opportunities with episode sponsor Jane StreetEd Copeland at the University of NottinghamNumberphile videos with EdS

A Chain of Chance - with Michael Merrifield

Jan 18th, 2023 1h 6m

Episode sponsored by Jane Street - check out their latest opportunities - https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/overview/Professor Michael Merrifield - https://about.me/michael.merrifieldMike's Twitter - https://twitter.com/AstroMikeM

Finding a Path - with Tatiana Toro

Dec 13th, 2022 43m 39s

Professor Toro is the new director of the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SL Math).SL Math website - https://www.msri.org/Announcement of Professor Toro's appointment - https://www.msri.org/web/msri/communications/tatiana-tor

An Educated Adult - with Tadashi Tokieda

Jul 11th, 2022 1h 13m

Tadashi at Stanford - https://mathematics.stanford.edu/people/tadashi-tokiedaTadashi videos on Numberphile - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWI9eDSJREzp1wvOJsjt23H_Lev Davidovich Landau - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_L

The Orchid Room and Cancer - with Hannah Fry

May 29th, 2022 36m 51s

Professor Hannah Fry discusses her cervical cancer diagnosis - and subsequent attempt to make sense of it all.Making Sense of Cancer - Showing on BBC2 on June 2 and then on BBC iPlayer - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017wzqTelegraph Ar

A Passion for Big Numbers (and Liverpool FC) - with Tony Padilla

Apr 18th, 2022 50m 41s

Tony Padilla is known on Numberphile for tackling the big numbers... But by day he's a cosmologist at the University of Nottingham. Tony's also a life-long fan of Liverpool FC. Brady joined him at Anfield for a game against Watford.Tony at th

The First and Last Digits of Pi

Mar 14th, 2022 42m 46s

Three One Four: A Number of Notes - http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pi/piday2022/The project is a collaboration between Martin, Gregory Coles, and Emma Beauxis-AussaletOn Bandcamp - https://ecstaticquiet1.bandcamp.com/album/three-one-four-a-number-of

An Infinite Debt - with Christopher Havens (Prisoner #349034)

Feb 13th, 2022 49m 50s

Catch this episode on YouTube - https://youtu.be/DPyWf4cI548The Prison Mathematics Project - https://www.prisonmathproject.org/about/The Paper: Linear fractional transformations and non-linear leaping convergents of some continued fractions

The Little Star - with Zvezdelina Stankova

Jan 13th, 2022 58m 19s

Mathematician Zvezdelina Stankova was born in Bulgaria and is now a teaching professor at UC Berkeley.Zvezda's webpage - https://math.berkeley.edu/~stankova/Zvezda videos on Numberphile - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWIb

Making Sense of Infinity - with Asaf Karagila

Aug 28th, 2021 53m 37s

From high school drop-out to set theorist, Asaf Karagila shares his journey towards infinity. Asaf is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of East Anglia.Asaf's blog - http://karagila.orgAsaf's Twitter - https://twitter.com/AsafKa

Rockstar Epidemiologists - with Adam Kucharski

Feb 2nd, 2021 45m 10s

Adam Kucharski is among a number of epidemiologists who has suddenly been thrust into the limelight. We discuss his career and the current state of the coronavirus pandemic.This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative