The Numberphile Podcast

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

Apr 18, 2022

50:41

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Infinite Sums

04:06

Is the Universe Expanding?

04:01

Are You at Peace With Her?

01:36

Introduction

2min

I've Always Loved Four Hundred, I Always Love Numbers

2min

Is Mathematics Your Favorite Subject?

2min

Physicist - What Did Your Dad Do?

2min

What's Your Background?

2min

What Are You Thinking?

2min

The Zero Story, Brethedsa

3min

How Did You Find Physics in the Maths Department?

2min

Is the Universe Expanding?

4min

10.

Would You Rather Win the Noble Prize in Physics or Play for Livepool?

2min

11.

Football Is More Than Just the Game, Right?

4min

12.

I've Been a Yu for a Long Time.

2min

13.

The Big Number Guy

3min

14.

Infinite Sums

4min

15.

Are You at Peace With Her?

2min

16.

How Dod That Come About?

2min

17.

The Book of Fantastic Numbers - Where to Find Them

2min

18.

The Best Preparation for Writing a Book

2min

19.

We're Just Going To, It's Only F O Forget Me.

2min

20.

What's Your Holy Grail?

2min

21.

Is a Public Talk Really a Big Trill?

3min

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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