The Numberphile Podcast

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

Order Tony's book Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity --- Amazon US - Amazon UK - MacMillan US - Penguin UK

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.

Catch this episode on YouTube

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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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

Asaf's Twitter

Some Infinity stuff on Numberphile

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This episode was also made possible by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship

UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship MR/T021705/1

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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

Marcus' author page on Amazon

I is a Strange Loop - book

I is a Strange Loop - performance on YouTube

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Podcast by Brady Haran

With thanks to GWR for the Oxford-London rail footage used in the YouTube version of this podcast

Additional train footage courtesy of Don Coffey, whose video work is supporting Samaritans

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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

Tom Rock's Maths YouTube Channel

Tom's main website with links to most stuff

Numberphile videos featuring Tom Crawford

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