Travelling to the Stars by Ladder – Numberphile

From Numberphile. Featuring Tony Padilla. Check out the Jane Street puzzle at https://www.janestreet.com/numberphile-2023/ More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Mole’s Star is a book by Britta Teckentrup – https://amzn.to/3LMYMGj Britta Teckentrup: https://www.brittateckentrup.com Tony Padilla’s Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them – https://amzn.to/44Zotd7 Tony Padilla – https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/antonio.padilla This episode was supported by…

Error Correcting Curves – Numberphile

From Numberphile. Isabel Vogt on error correction, curves, and some big polynomials. Extra footage at: https://youtu.be/eLPfRY4NATw More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Isabel Vogt at Brown University – https://www.math.brown.edu/ivogt/ Numberphile is supported by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (formerly MSRI): http://bit.ly/MSRINumberphile We are also supported by Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation…

Sleeping Beauty Paradox – Numberphile

From Numberphile. Featuring Tom Crawford. Learn more about Jane Street internships at https://www.janestreet.com/internships (sponsor)… More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Tom Crawford’s website, with links to his work and other outreach: https://tomrocksmaths.com More Tom videos on Numberphile: http://bit.ly/Crawford_Videos Tom on the Numberphile Podcast: https://youtu.be/_HwKGncsGo0 Gabriel’s Horn Paradox: https://youtu.be/yZOi9HH5ueU Infinity Paradoxes: https://youtu.be/dDl7g_2x74Q Monty…

Winning the Fields Medal (with James Maynard) – Numberphile

From Numberphile. Longer version at: https://youtu.be/yz-5BY_TTNI — See https://brilliant.org/numberphile for Brilliant and 20% off their premium service & 30-day trial (episode sponsor) More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ 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/ Some images and video…

The Game of Set (and some variations) – Numberphile

From Numberphile. Mathematicians love the game of Set – and here are some variations on the classic. Featuring Catherine Hsu. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Catherine Hsu is Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College – https://chsu.domains.swarthmore.edu Projective and Non-Abelian SET Decks – https://chsu.domains.swarthmore.edu/set.html Conventional Set on Amazon – https://amzn.to/3K7forn SET with a…

Magic Squares of Squares (are PROBABLY impossible) – Numberphile

From Numberphile. Tony Várilly-Alvarado uses surprising mathematics to show that a 3×3 Magic Square of Squares is highly unlikely. See Matt Parker react to this video at: https://youtu.be/U9dtpycbFSY — More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Tony’s webpage at Rice University: https://math.rice.edu/~av15/ Paper by Nils Bruin, Jordan Thomas, Anthony Várilly-Alvarado: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08908 Christian Boyer,…

The Brick Factory Problem – Numberphile

From Numberphile. Featuring Dr James Grime… See https://brilliant.org/numberphile for Brilliant and 20% off their premium service & 30-day trial (episode sponsor) More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ James Grime: https://www.singingbanana.com His YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/singingbanana More James on Numberphile: http://bit.ly/grimevideos Numberphile is supported by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (formerly MSRI): http://bit.ly/MSRINumberphile…

Parabolic Mirrors – Numberphile

From Numberphile. Featuring Tom Crawford. Check opportunities with Jane Street at https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/ (episode sponsor)… More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Tom Crawford’s website, with links to his work and other outreach: https://tomrocksmaths.com More Tom videos on Numberphile: http://bit.ly/Crawford_Videos Tom on the Numberphile Podcast: https://youtu.be/_HwKGncsGo0 Numberphile is supported by the Simons Laufer Mathematical…

Practical Numbers – Numberphile

From Numberphile. Featuring Dr James Grime. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/numberphile Practical Numbers (AKA panarithmic numbers) on the OEIS: https://oeis.org/A005153 James Grime: https://www.singingbanana.com His YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/singingbanana More James on Numberphile: http://bit.ly/grimevideos Numberphile is supported by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (formerly MSRI): http://bit.ly/MSRINumberphile We are also supported…

Discovery about Book Embedding of Graphs – Numberphile

From Numberphile. Featuring James Grime. Check opportunities with Jane Street at https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/ (episode sponsor) More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ James Grime: https://www.singingbanana.com His YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/singingbanana More James on Numberphile: http://bit.ly/grimevideos Four Pages Are Indeed Necessary for Planar Graphs (paper): https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07630 Play with the four page graph: http://be.cs.arizona.edu/map/1442/ Read more on book embedding:…

Go First Dice – Numberphile

From Numberphile. James Grime reveals a breakthrough in the dice world. See https://brilliant.org/numberphile for Brilliant and 20% off their premium service & 30-day trial (episode sponsor)… More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ James’s paper in Recreational Mathematics Magazine: https://sciendo.com/issue/RMM/10/17 Eric Harshbarger’s Go First Dice wiki: http://www.ericharshbarger.org/wiki/doku.php Carl Hoff dice from the video:…

The Journey to 3264 – Numberphile

From Numberphile. Professor David Eisenbud talks about conics, and visits a few numbers along the way. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ David Eisenbud Numberphile Playlist: http://bit.ly/Eisenbud_Videos David Eisenbud: https://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/david-eisenbud 3264 and All That: A Second Course in Algebraic Geometry: https://amzn.to/3lQfyKR David Eisenbud author page on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3G2VJ9S Numberphile is supported by…

The Math of Species Conflict – Numberphile

From Numberphile. Featuring Thomas Woolley and some squirrels… Check out opportunities with Jane Street at https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/ (episode sponsor) More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Thomas Woolley at Cardiff University: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/783107-woolley-thomas Thomas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThomasEWoolley Red Squirrels v Grey Squirrels Numberphile is supported by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (formerly MSRI): http://bit.ly/MSRINumberphile…

Your Klein Bottle is in the Post – Numberphile

From Numberphile. Klein bottle enthusiast Cliff Stoll shows us his unique system for sending bottles to customers. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Cliff’s online store: https://www.kleinbottle.com More videos on our Klein Bottle playlist: http://bit.ly/KleinBottles Cliff Stoll playlist: http://bit.ly/Cliff_Videos Podcast with Cliff: https://youtu.be/lxdcBD4ppF0 Numberphile is supported by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences…

The Distance Between Numbers – Numberphile

From Numberphile. Featuring Tom Crawford. Check out opportunities with Jane Street at https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/ (episode sponsor) More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Tom discusses a series that, by one definition, has an unexpected property. Tom Crawford’s website, with links to his work and other outreach: https://tomrocksmaths.com More Tom videos on Numberphile: http://bit.ly/Crawford_Videos Tom…

The Prime Number Race (with 3Blue1Brown) – Numberphile

From Numberphile. Grant Sanderson discusses a race between two types of prime numbers – and an unexpected result. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ See all three videos in this series – Grant’s Prime Pattern Trilogy: https://bit.ly/PrimePatternTrilogy Grant’s own false pattern video: https://youtu.be/851U557j6HE Grant’s channel is 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown More Grant on Numberphile:…