The Numberphile Podcast

Astronomer Mike Merrifield had terrible handwriting and dreamed of captaining a submarine - now he's an astronomer and world expert on galaxies. 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 Videos Messier Objects Playlist Ralph Merrifield Ralph Merrifield author page on Amazon Galactic Astronomy by James Binney and Michael Merrifield Hand-written version of Mike's 'Good Will Hunting' paper And here is the published version You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people With thanks to SLMath

From a challenging situation in Bogota to a prestigious job in US academia, Tatiana Toro wants to help others find their mathematical pathway. 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 of Washington webpage Podcast with David Eisenbud - Professor Toro's predecessor

Tadashi Tokieda is a Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University - and a popular contributor to videos on our Numberphile video channel. But his path to mathematics was unusual. 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 website Hannah Fry books - Amazon Numberphile videos with Hannah Hannah previously on the podcast Macmillan Cancer Support NHS Cancer help You can support Numberphile on Patreon like these people With thanks to MSRI

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

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

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

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

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

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