Interviews with people who love numbers and mathematics. Hosted by Brady Haran, maker of the Numberphile series on YouTube. More
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An A-Class Reject - with Ed Copeland
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 EdSome physics videos with EdA trilogy of longer videos with EdYou can support Numberphile on PatreonWith thanks to SLMath
21/02/2023
1:04:18
A Chain of Chance - with Michael Merrifield
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.merrifield
Mike's Twitter - https://twitter.com/AstroMikeMerri
Mike Merrifield Video Playlist - http://bit.ly/Merrifield_Playlist
Sixty Symbols - Physics videos, many featuring Mike - https://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols
Deep Sky Videos - https://www.youtube.com/user/deepskyvideos
Messier Objects Playlist - http://bit.ly/MessierObjects
Ralph Merrifield - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Merrifield
Ralph Merrifield author page on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3Hff0Gj
Galactic Astronomy by James Binney and Michael Merrifield - https://amzn.to/3Xme4Fs
Hand-written version of Mike's 'Good Will Hunting' paper - https://brady-haran.squarespace.com/s/MerrifieldPaperHandWritten.pdf
And here is the published version - https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1990AJ.....99.1548M
You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile) like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons
With thanks to SLMath - https://www.msri.org
18/01/2023
1:06:17
Finding a Path - with Tatiana Toro
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-toro-msri-director-2022
MSRI is renamed SL Math - https://www.msri.org/web/msri/communications/msri-press-release-may-19-2022
Professor Toro's University of Washington webpage - https://sites.math.washington.edu/~toro/
Podcast with David Eisenbud - Professor Toro's predecessor - https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/david-eisenbud
13/12/2022
43:39
An Educated Adult - with Tadashi Tokieda
Tadashi at Stanford - https://mathematics.stanford.edu/people/tadashi-tokieda
Tadashi videos on Numberphile - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWI9eDSJREzp1wvOJsjt23H_
Lev Davidovich Landau - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Landau
You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile) like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons
With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org
11/07/2022
1:13:45
The Orchid Room and Cancer - with Hannah Fry
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/m0017wzq
Telegraph Article - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/prof-hannah-fry-calculating-risks-cancer-treatment-would-have/
Hannah Fry website - https://hannahfry.co.uk/
Hannah Fry books - Amazon - https://amzn.to/3PzW4nz
Numberphile videos with Hannah - http://bit.ly/hannah_vids
Hannah previously on the podcast - https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/hannah-fry
Macmillan Cancer Support - https://www.macmillan.org.uk
NHS Cancer help - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cancer/
You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile
Like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons
With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org