

The Numberphile Podcast
Brady Haran
Interviews with people who love numbers and mathematics. Hosted by Brady Haran, maker of the Numberphile series on YouTube.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Apr 18, 2022 • 51min
A Passion for Big Numbers (and Liverpool FC) - with Tony Padilla
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
You can 'watch' the podcasts, including this one, on YouTube
This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/
You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people
With thanks to MSRI
The Numberphile Podcast by Brady Haran

Mar 14, 2022 • 43min
The First and Last Digits of Pi
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
This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/
You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people
With thanks to MSRI

Feb 13, 2022 • 50min
An Infinite Debt - with Christopher Havens (Prisoner #349034)
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
You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people
With thanks to MSRI

Jan 13, 2022 • 58min
The Little Star - with Zvezdelina Stankova
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
This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/
You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people
With thanks to MSRI

Dec 2, 2021 • 37min
Google's 'DeepMind' does Mathematics
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
This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/
You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people
With thanks to MSRI

Aug 28, 2021 • 54min
Making Sense of Infinity - with Asaf Karagila
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
You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people
With thanks to MSRI
This episode was also made possible by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship MR/T021705/1
Podcast Transcripts

Jul 26, 2021 • 51min
A Chance at Immortality - with Marcus Du Sautoy
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
This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/
You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people
With thanks to MSRI
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
Podcast Transcripts

May 31, 2021 • 58min
The Naked Mathematician - with Tom Crawford
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
This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/
You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people
With thanks to MSRI

Apr 3, 2021 • 39min
Beauty in the Messiness - with Philip Moriarty
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 - including links to some of his papers
Phil's book: When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11: Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal
Some of Brady's videos with Phil
The Golden Ratio music video
Phil's blog
Want more? Hear Phil with Brady on The Unmade Podcast
This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/
You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people
With thanks to MSRI

Feb 25, 2021 • 55min
The High Jumping Cosmologist - with Katie Mack
Astrophysicist Katie Mack discusses Twitter, athletics, mathematics, and the small matter of the fate of the Universe.
Katie Mack's website
And her Twitter @AstroKatie
The End of Everything - Dr Mack's book on Amazon
This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/
You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people
With thanks to MSRI


