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

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Ed Copeland at the University of Nottingham

Numberphile videos with Ed

Some physics videos with Ed

A trilogy of longer videos with Ed

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Astronomer Mike Merrifield had terrible handwriting and dreamed of captaining a submarine - now he's an astronomer and world expert on galaxies.

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Professor Michael Merrifield

Mike's Twitter

Mike Merrifield Video Playlist

Sixty Symbols - Physics videos, many featuring Mike

Deep Sky Videos

Messier Objects Playlist

Ralph Merrifield

Ralph Merrifield author page on Amazon

Galactic Astronomy by James Binney and Michael Merrifield

Hand-written version of Mike's 'Good Will Hunting' paper

And here is the published version

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From a challenging situation in Bogota to a prestigious job in US academia, Tatiana Toro wants to help others find their mathematical pathway.

Professor Toro is the new director of the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SL Math).

SL Math website

Announcement of Professor Toro's appointment

MSRI is renamed SL Math

Professor Toro's University of Washington webpage

Podcast with David Eisenbud - Professor Toro's predecessor

Tadashi Tokieda is a Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University - and a popular contributor to videos on our Numberphile video channel. But his path to mathematics was unusual.

Tadashi at Stanford

Tadashi videos on Numberphile

Lev Davidovich Landau

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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

Telegraph Article

Hannah Fry website

Hannah Fry books - Amazon

Numberphile videos with Hannah

Hannah previously on the podcast

Macmillan Cancer Support

NHS Cancer help

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

Tony at the University of Nottingham

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Some videos with Tony on Numberphile

And some videos with Tony on Sixty Symbols

The Sum of the Integers being -1/12

Liverpool v Watford on 2 April 2022

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The Numberphile Podcast by Brady Haran

Data visualisation guru Martin Krzywinski has teamed up with composer Gregory Coles to make music based on Pi - the early digits AND the last known digits.

Three One Four: A Number of Notes

The project is a collaboration between Martin, Gregory Coles, and Emma Beauxis-Aussalet

On Bandcamp

YouTube track playlist

YouTube album discussions and score analysis

Martin Krzywinski

62.8 trillion digit computation of Pi

Some of Martin's previous Pi visualisations can be found here

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Christopher Havens is serving a 25-year prison sentence for murder - but behind bars he's seeking redemption through advanced mathematics.

He has published an academic paper... and is bringing math to other inmates via The Prison Mathematics Project.

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The Prison Mathematics Project

The Paper: Linear fractional transformations and non-linear leaping convergents of some continued fractions

Article by Marta Cerruti on The Conversation

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

Zvezda's webpage

Zvezda videos on Numberphile

The Legend of Question Six

Berkeley Math Circle

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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

DeepMind blog on this topic

Nature article on the topic

Article from The Conversation by Geordie Williamson, who worked on the project

Marcus du Sautoy

The Creativity Code - book on Amazon

Collaborator Geordie Williamson

Collaborator Marc Lackenby

Collaborator Andras Juhasz

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