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Numberphile

Season 2016 2016

  • 2016-01-06T18:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 10m
  • 11h 20m (68 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
Videos about numbers - it's that simple. Videos by Brady Haran

68 episodes

Season Premiere

2016-01-06T18:00:00Z

2016x01 The iPhone of Slide Rules

Season Premiere

2016x01 The iPhone of Slide Rules

  • 2016-01-06T18:00:00Z10m

Alex Bellos discusses slide rules and then the Halden Calculex, which he describes as the "iPhone of Slide Rules"

2016x02 Shapes and Hook Numbers

  • 2016-01-08T18:00:00Z10m

Shapes, Tableaux and Hook Numbers. Featuring Professor Curtis Greene from Haverford College.

2016-01-18T18:00:00Z

2016x03 Fantastic Quaternions

2016x03 Fantastic Quaternions

  • 2016-01-18T18:00:00Z10m

Dr James Grime discusses a type of number beyond the complex numbers, and why they are useful.

2016-02-12T18:00:00Z

2016x08 Strange Spinning Tubes

2016x08 Strange Spinning Tubes

  • 2016-02-12T18:00:00Z10m

Tadashi is back with more mathematical toys - this time small tubes which do intriguing things when they spin.

Three calculators from Staples receive our forensic examination.

2016x10 The Millionaire Machine

  • 2016-02-24T18:00:00Z10m

Cliff is back with an amazing device - The Millionaire.

2016-03-02T18:00:00Z

2016x11 Shuffling Card Trick

2016x11 Shuffling Card Trick

  • 2016-03-02T18:00:00Z10m

Jason Davison shows us a cool card trick using the so-called Gilbreath Principle. More card videos from Numberphile: http://bit.ly/Cards_Shuffling

Carlo Sequin talks through platonic solids and regular polytopes in higher dimensions.

Bayes' Theorem applied to disease diagnosis. Featuring Lisa Goldberg from UC Berkeley Department of Statistics.

2016-03-31T17:00:00Z

2016x14 Crank Files

2016x14 Crank Files

  • 2016-03-31T17:00:00Z10m

Keith Moore from the Royal Society shows Matt Parker (and Brady) a few math papers from the society archives.

Modularity... Simon Pampena gets to the heart of proving Fermat's Last Theorem.

2016-04-18T17:00:00Z

2016x17 The Parker Square

2016x17 The Parker Square

  • 2016-04-18T17:00:00Z10m

Matt Parker reveals his pride and joy - the mysterious Parker Square!

2016x18 Magic Square Party Trick

  • 2016-04-19T17:00:00Z10m

Matt Parker shows off his Magic Square party trick (unlike magicians, mathematicians often reveal their secrets).

2016-04-26T17:00:00Z

2016x19 Perplexing Paperclips

2016x19 Perplexing Paperclips

  • 2016-04-26T17:00:00Z10m

2016-04-28T17:00:00Z

2016x20 Partitions

2016x20 Partitions

  • 2016-04-28T17:00:00Z10m

Partitions are a major part of the Ramanujan story (as shown in the new film about his life) - but what are they?

2016x22 The Last Digit of Prime Numbers

  • 2016-05-04T17:00:00Z10m

Dr James Grime on a new discovery in the Prime Numbers.

L-Functions are likely to play a key role in proving the Riemann Hypothesis, says Professor Jon Keating from the University of Bristol.

2016-05-13T17:00:00Z

2016x24 Money Catching

2016x24 Money Catching

  • 2016-05-13T17:00:00Z10m

Tadashi Tokieda puts $20 on the line...

2016-05-17T17:00:00Z

2016x25 Let's Talk About Sets

2016x25 Let's Talk About Sets

  • 2016-05-17T17:00:00Z10m

Dr Bobby Wilson talks about sets... Sum-free sets, fractal sets... All sorts of sets.

2016-05-19T17:00:00Z

2016x26 Borromean Ribbons

2016x26 Borromean Ribbons

  • 2016-05-19T17:00:00Z10m

Tadashi Tokieda is talking about Borromean links again - this time using ribbons.

Cédric Villani won the Fields Medal in 2010. You can learn more in his excellent book Birth of a Theorem.

2016-05-26T17:00:00Z

2016x28 Catching Kendama

2016x28 Catching Kendama

  • 2016-05-26T17:00:00Z10m

Tadashi's back (for the final video in this mini series) demonstrating the Kendama and some angular momentum.

2016-05-31T17:00:00Z

2016x29 74 is cracked

2016x29 74 is cracked

  • 2016-05-31T17:00:00Z10m

A breakthrough by a Numberphile viewer (with help from some computers).

2016-06-02T17:00:00Z

2016x30 Little Fibs

2016x30 Little Fibs

  • 2016-06-02T17:00:00Z10m

A card trick which involves some little fibs.

2016-06-08T17:00:00Z

2016x31 Consecutive Coin Flips

2016x31 Consecutive Coin Flips

  • 2016-06-08T17:00:00Z10m

2016x32 Three Gears are Possible

  • 2016-06-10T17:00:00Z10m

Henry Segerman (mathematician and 3D printing guru) discusses how to make three gears work together.

Donald Knuth coined the term "Surreal Numbers" and wrote the first book about them after lunch with the man who devised them, John Conway.

2016x35 Calculator Unboxing #7 (Gaxio)

  • 2016-07-01T17:00:00Z10m

Matt Parker appears courtesy of the South Surrey and Associated Regions Calculator Appreciation Society for Professionals and Amateurs

Solve by Ryan Jones. Music by Alan Stewart.

A prime number problem posed by Fermat that has been proved multiple times - including a famous proof using one just sentence.

2016-07-20T17:00:00Z

2016x39 Penney's Game

2016x39 Penney's Game

  • 2016-07-20T17:00:00Z10m

Dr James Grime discusses Penney's Game - a cool probability trick to play with your friends.

2016x40 Stars and Bars (and bagels)

  • 2016-07-25T17:00:00Z10m

Professor Ken Ribet discusses a mathematical problem involving bagels - and some clever combinatorics.

2016-07-31T17:00:00Z

2016x41 Paper Calculator

2016x41 Paper Calculator

  • 2016-07-31T17:00:00Z10m

Comic book genius Jason Shiga shows us a calculator made of paper. We've got more coming from Jason which will explain WHY he made this (besides the fact it is just cool!)

2016x42 The Electric Slide Rule

  • 2016-08-03T17:00:00Z10m

Cliff Stoll shows off an electric-powered slide rule.

Catch David on the Numberphile podcast: https://youtu.be/9y1BGvnTyQA

2016x44 A Strange Change of Rotation

  • 2016-08-14T17:00:00Z10m

Rotating cedar balls. Here's a playlist of Tadashi Tokieda videos: http://bit.ly/tadashi_vids

2016x45 The Legend of Question Six

  • 2016-08-16T17:00:00Z10m

Free trial at Great Courses Plus: http://ow.ly/7Hh2302dIFt

2016x46 The Secret of Floppy Paper

  • 2016-08-22T17:00:00Z10m

Tadashi is back, this time looking at drooping paper (and toilet paper).

2016x47 The Mathematician's Office

  • 2016-08-25T17:00:00Z10m

Cedric Villani is one of the world's most famous mathematicians. What does he keep in his office, and how important is his office to doing inspirational mathematics?

A printing calculator with a dangerous twist? The Casio HR-100TE Plus-W.

2016-09-05T17:00:00Z

2016x49 Coffee Cup Vibrations

2016x49 Coffee Cup Vibrations

  • 2016-09-05T17:00:00Z10m

Tadashi explores coffee and tea cups to new depths...

2016x50 A Hole in a Hole in a Hole

  • 2016-09-08T17:00:00Z10m

Cliff's glassware: http://bit.ly/ACME_Klein

2016-09-14T17:00:00Z

2016x51 Fair Dice (Part 1)

2016x51 Fair Dice (Part 1)

  • 2016-09-14T17:00:00Z10m

Probability expert Professor Persi Diaconis (Stanford University) talking about dice.

2016-09-15T17:00:00Z

2016x52 Fair Dice (Part 2)

2016x52 Fair Dice (Part 2)

  • 2016-09-15T17:00:00Z10m

2016-09-20T17:00:00Z

2016x53 The Most Powerful Dice

2016x53 The Most Powerful Dice

  • 2016-09-20T17:00:00Z10m

Tadashi explores a special set of dice... And has a powerful lesson.

2016-09-26T17:00:00Z

2016x54 Space-Filling Curves

2016x54 Space-Filling Curves

  • 2016-09-26T17:00:00Z10m

Henry Segerman shows us some 3D-printed space-filling curves, including the Hilbert Curve and Dragon Curve.

2016-10-05T17:00:00Z

2016x55 The mystery of 0.577

2016x55 The mystery of 0.577

  • 2016-10-05T17:00:00Z10m

The harmonic series and the elusive Euler–Mascheroni constant.

2016-10-10T17:00:00Z

2016x56 Lace Knot Trick

2016x56 Lace Knot Trick

  • 2016-10-10T17:00:00Z10m

Playlist of Tadashi Tokieda videos: http://bit.ly/tadashi_vids

2016x57 Imagining Numbers as Shapes

  • 2016-10-18T17:00:00Z10m

Thanks to sponsor Great Courses Plus: http://ow.ly/NURF302dIJV

2016-10-28T17:00:00Z

2016x58 The Josephus Problem

2016x58 The Josephus Problem

  • 2016-10-28T17:00:00Z10m

The Josephus Problem, featuring Daniel Erman from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This video features Cliff Stoll... and the work of Leonhard Euler.

Professor Ron Rivest discusses a technique for post election audits - taking small samples and using Pólya's Urn.

How to be sure your vote was counted ---- "End to End Verifiable Voting" with cryptopgraphy expert Professor Ron Rivest.

2016-11-14T18:00:00Z

2016x62 Mondrian Puzzle

2016x62 Mondrian Puzzle

  • 2016-11-14T18:00:00Z10m

Featuring Gordon Hamilton from Math Pickle.

2016x63 The Problems with Secret Santa

  • 2016-11-22T18:00:00Z10m

Dr Hannah Fry discusses Secret Santa, anonymity and derangements. And a better way to do it.

2016-11-28T18:00:00Z

2016x64 Too Many Triangles

2016x64 Too Many Triangles

  • 2016-11-28T18:00:00Z10m

How many triangles are too many? Featuring Henry Segerman from Oklahoma State University.

2016x65 The Shortest Ever Papers

  • 2016-12-07T18:00:00Z10m

Tony Padilla discusses some of the shortest math papers to be published. From Conway to Nash.

2016-12-13T18:00:00Z

2016x66 Super Bottle

2016x66 Super Bottle

  • 2016-12-13T18:00:00Z10m

Professor Carlo Séquin explains super bottles - and a super duper bottle. More Klein Bottle videos: http://bit.ly/KleinBottles

2016-12-19T18:00:00Z

2016x67 e (Euler's Number)

2016x67 e (Euler's Number)

  • 2016-12-19T18:00:00Z10m

Dr James Grime discusses "e" - the famed Euler's Number.

2016-12-23T18:00:00Z

2016x68 Incredible Formula

2016x68 Incredible Formula

  • 2016-12-23T18:00:00Z10m

Dr James Grime discusses a couple of clever formulas which are pandigital - using all the numbers from 1-9.

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