The Numberphile Podcast

Sashko Olenchenko is doing a masters in mathematical physics with a sideline making videos on YouTube - occasionally interrupted by drone attacks from Russia. Here is his YouTube channel - And you can support his work...

Brady answers all manner of viewer questions about Numberphile - and a few unrelated topics too. Learn more about Jane Street’s Internships at - A YouTube version of this episode - Breakfast Sound Checks - A list of...

Chris Oates is a professor of statistics at Newcastle University - he got there despite being somewhat indecisive about his career. This episode was made possible by the Leverhulme Trust, a UK-based organisation which...

Po-Ling Loh is an American theoretical statistician based at the University of Cambridge. She discusses her childhood, choosing a university, and her path to higher dimensional statistics and differential privacy. She...

There’s a new largest known prime number and we speak to all the key players, including the discoverer Luke Durant. Also featured in the podcast are George Woltman from GIMPS, James Grime, and Matt Parker. Extended...

Ellen Eischen is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon. Here she discusses creativity, collaboration - and a “secret” journal she has kept since childhood. Ellen Eischen website (includes some links to...

Catch a video version of this episode at: Danica McKellar is best-known for portraying girl-next-door Winnie Cooper in The Wonder Years - but she has also proven a math theorem (which bears her name) and writes books to...

This podcast marks the passing of James Harris Simons, better-known as Jim. The interviewees are John Ewing, David Eisenbud and Andrew Millis. The Simons Foundation - Simons Foundation article about Jim’s life - Brady’s...

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 - The Art of Computer Programming (books) - On...

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 - Walt’s Website - Numlock News - Dr Ian Malcolm from Jurassic...

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...

Oxford mathematician James Maynard explains why he feared accidentally refusing the most famous prize in mathematics. Watch this full interview on YouTube - Full 2022 Fields Medal Winners - See our Fields Medal Playlist...

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 Street Ed Copeland at the University of Nottingham...

Episode sponsored by Jane Street - check out their latest opportunities - Professor Michael Merrifield - Mike's Twitter - Mike Merrifield Video Playlist - Sixty Symbols - Physics videos, many featuring Mike - Deep Sky...

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...

Tadashi at Stanford - Tadashi videos on Numberphile - Lev Davidovich Landau - You can support Numberphile on Patreon - like these people - With thanks to MSRI -

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...