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 - https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/The Art of Computer Programming (books) - https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.htmlOn Amazon - https://amzn.to/4aUkkeT3:16 (book) - https://amzn.to/4aRs9lHKnuth’s questions for Chat GPT - https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txtKnuth videos on Numberphile - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWLfLjzHzmFO6T8jCZdipvQcBrady’s video on John 3:16 from his Bibledex series - https://youtu.be/ZJjFebPW5b8Ziegler’s Giant Bar - https://www.halfnuts.net/products/an-original-ziegler-giant-bar?variant=55664909259Numberphile is supported by Jane Street - https://www.numberphile.com/jane-streetWe also work with the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute - https://www.slmath.org You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphileHere are our Patrons - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons

A Very Bad Estimator - with Donald Knuth

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 - https://amzn.to/3F8SwVoWalt’s Website - https://walthickey.comNumlock News - https://www.numlock.comDr Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park - https://jurassicpark.fandom.com/wiki/Ian_MalcolmDoes Hollywood ruin books? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUD8h9JpEVQ  Math and Movies (Animation at Pixar) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX0NB9IyYpUThe problem in Good Will Hunting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW_LkYiuTKENumberphile is supported by Jane Street - https://www.numberphile.com/jane-streetWe also work with the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute - https://www.slmath.org You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphileHere are our Patrons - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons

The Math of Movies - with Walt Hickey

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 try to make their mark in academia. And just so you know there’s happy ending in sight - this episode of the podcast will conclude with a stirring musical finale.

Federico’s site - https://fardila.com

SFSU page - https://math.sfsu.edu/faculty/ardila

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Finding Your Place - with Federico Ardila

Oxford mathematician James Maynard explains why he feared accidentally refusing the most famous prize in mathematics.

Watch this full interview on YouTube - https://youtu.be/yz-5BY_TTNI

Full 2022 Fields Medal Winners - https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2022

See our Fields Medal Playlist - https://bit.ly/Fields_Playlist

More James Maynard videos - https://bit.ly/JamesMaynard

James Maynard - https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/professor-james-maynard/

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Yes, I accept the Fields Medal - with James Maynard

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

An A-Class Reject - with Ed Copeland

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

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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

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A Chain of Chance - with Michael Merrifield

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

Finding a Path - with Tatiana Toro

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

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An Educated Adult - with Tadashi Tokieda

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/

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The Orchid Room and Cancer - with 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 against Watford.

Tony at the University of Nottingham - https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/antonio.padilla

Order Tony's book Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity

Amazon US - https://amzn.to/3JYQbws

Amazon UK - https://amzn.to/3M3yvB8

MacMillan US - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374600570/fantasticnumbersandwheretofindthem

Penguin UK - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316/316964/fantastic-numbers-and-where-to-find-them/9780241445372.html

Some videos with Tony on Numberphile - http://bit.ly/Padilla_Numberphile

And some videos with Tony on Sixty Symbols - https://bit.ly/Padilla_SixtySymbols

The Sum of the Integers being -1/12 - https://www.bradyharanblog.com/blog/2015/1/11/this-blog-probably-wont-help

Liverpool v Watford on 2 April 2022 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eHdk_1mJqA

You can 'watch' the podcasts, including this one, on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH2AOVeIaWFmnXrXQ_UhKVy9Zp0RtRMm5

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/ - https://www.gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/

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A Passion for Big Numbers (and Liverpool FC) - with Tony Padilla

Three One Four: A Number of Notes - http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pi/piday2022/

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

On Bandcamp - https://ecstaticquiet1.bandcamp.com/album/three-one-four-a-number-of-notes

YouTube track playlist - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLewycy5dwN_nDZVW9fPcTRhGiGMEXqoxs

YouTube album discussions and score analysis - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLewycy5dwN_k_nAU9bhbTaDAKW3YAo_WW

Martin Krzywinski - http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca

62.8 trillion digit computation of Pi - https://www.fhgr.ch/en/specialist-areas/applied-future-technologies/davis-centre/pi-challenge

Some of Martin's previous Pi visualisations can be found here - http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pi/

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/ - https://www.gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/

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The First and Last Digits of Pi

Catch this episode on YouTube - https://youtu.be/DPyWf4cI548

The Prison Mathematics Project - https://www.prisonmathproject.org/about/

The Paper: Linear fractional transformations and non-linear leaping convergents of some continued fractions - https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12644

Article by Marta Cerruti on The Conversation - https://theconversation.com/an-inmates-love-for-math-leads-to-new-discoveries-130123

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An Infinite Debt - with Christopher Havens (Prisoner #349034)

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

Zvezda's webpage - https://math.berkeley.edu/~stankova/

Zvezda videos on Numberphile - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWIbAPK1oJgRIpe0sWiPKkQ4

The Legend of Question Six - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y30VF3cSIYQ

Berkeley Math Circle - https://mathcircle.berkeley.edu

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/ - https://www.gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/

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The Little Star - with Zvezdelina Stankova

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 - https://deepmind.com

DeepMind blog on this topic - https://deepmind.com/blog/article/exploring-the-beauty-of-pure-mathematics-in-novel-ways

Nature article on the topic - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03593-1

Article from The Conversation by Geordie Williamson, who worked on the project - https://theconversation.com/mathematical-discoveries-take-intuition-and-creativity-and-now-a-little-help-from-ai-172900

Marcus du Sautoy - https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk

The Creativity Code - book on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3Dmxak2

Collaborator Geordie Williamson - https://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/geordie/

Collaborator Marc Lackenby - http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/lackenby/

Collaborator Andras Juhasz - https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/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/ - https://www.gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/

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Google's 'DeepMind' does Mathematics

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 - http://karagila.org

Asaf's Twitter - https://twitter.com/AsafKaragila

Some Infinity stuff on Numberphile - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWKORZ3UeTKlJiJa-89BBz3t

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

This episode was also made possible by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship - https://www.ukri.org/our-work/developing-people-and-skills/future-leaders-fellowships/

UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship MR/T021705/1

Making Sense of Infinity - with Asaf Karagila

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 - https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk

Marcus' author page on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3eJNd1Z

I is a Strange Loop - book - https://amzn.to/3eJNd1Z

I is a Strange Loop - performance on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEORIj1Ecug

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/ - https://www.gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/

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With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org

Podcast by Brady Haran - https://www.bradyharanblog.com

With thanks to GWR - https://www.gwr.com - for the Oxford-London rail footage used in the YouTube version of this podcast - https://youtu.be/PVSkzNOXG1k

Additional train footage courtesy of Don Coffey - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8LH7xMAyCSqpClAvTHwJRw -  whose video work is supporting Samaritans - https://www.samaritans.org/donate-now/

A Chance at Immortality - with Marcus Du Sautoy

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 - https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/tom-crawford

Tom Rock's Maths YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/tomrocksmaths

Tom's main website with links to most stuff - https://tomrocksmaths.com

Numberphile videos featuring Tom Crawford - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJ2TNTA79reKQ6S88kTvDR-

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/ - https://www.gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/

You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile) like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons

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The Naked Mathematician - with Tom Crawford

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

Beauty in the Messiness - with Philip Moriarty

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

The High Jumping Cosmologist - with Katie Mack

Adam Kucharski is among a number of epidemiologists who has suddenly been thrust into the limelight. We discuss his career and the current state of the coronavirus pandemic.
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/
Adam Kucharski's website
Adam's books on Amazon, including The Rules of Contagion
Some of our previous podcasts that touch on epidemiology include these ones with Kit Yates, Hannah Fry and Jennifer Rogers
You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people
With thanks to MSRI
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