The Numberphile Podcast
Interviews with people who love numbers and mathematics. Hosted by Brady Haran, maker of the Numberphile series on YouTube.
- Update frequency
- every 30 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 57
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Everything You Wanted To Know About Numberphile - with Brady Haran
Brady answers all manner of viewer questions about Numberphile - and a few unrelated topics too.
Learn more about Jane Street’s Internships at - https://jane-st.co/internship-numberphile-pod-25
A YouTu…
The Indecisive Statistics Professor - with Chris Oates
Chris Oates is a professor of statistics at Newcastle University - he got there despite being somewhat indecisive about his career.
This episode was made possible by the Leverhulme Trust, a UK-based o…
Counting Crayons - with Po-Ling Loh
Po-Ling Loh is an American theoretical statistician based at the University of Cambridge. She discusses her childhood, choosing a university, and her path to higher dimensional statistics and differe…
BREAKING NEWS: The Largest Known Prime Number
There’s a new largest known prime number and we speak to all the key players, including the discoverer Luke Durant. Also featured in the podcast are George Woltman from GIMPS, James Grime, and Matt P…
The Secret Math Journal - with Ellen Eischen
Ellen Eischen is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon. Here she discusses creativity, collaboration - and a “secret” journal she has kept since childhood.
Ellen Eischen website (incl…
Winnie the Math Whiz - with Danica McKellar
Catch a video version of this episode at: https://youtu.be/xMAiBBxQGZI
Danica McKellar is best-known for portraying girl-next-door Winnie Cooper in The Wonder Years - but she has also proven a math th…
The Hyper-Curious Billionaire - Jim Simons (1938-2024)
This podcast marks the passing of James Harris Simons, better-known as Jim.
The interviewees are John Ewing, David Eisenbud and Andrew Millis.
The Simons Foundation - https://www.simonsfoundation.org
Si…
A Very Bad Estimator - with Donald Knuth
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.stanfo…
The Math of Movies - with Walt Hickey
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/3F8SwVo
Walt’s Website - h…
Finding Your Place - with Federico Ardila
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 bac…
Yes, I accept the Fields Medal - with James Maynard
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 Field…
An A-Class Reject - with Ed Copeland
He dreamed of being a great cricketer - but his love for equations led Ed Copeland to a career in theoretical physics.
A Chain of Chance - with Michael Merrifield
Astronomer Mike Merrifield had terrible handwriting and dreamed of captaining a submarine - now he's an astronomer and world expert on galaxies.
Finding a Path - with Tatiana Toro
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 …
An Educated Adult - with Tadashi Tokieda
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.
The Orchid Room and Cancer - with Hannah Fry
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
A Passion for Big Numbers (and Liverpool FC) - with Tony Padilla
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.
The First and Last Digits of Pi
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 proj…
An Infinite Debt - with Christopher Havens (Prisoner #349034)
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 …
The Little Star - with Zvezdelina Stankova
Mathematician Zvezdelina Stankova was born in Bulgaria and is now a teaching professor at UC Berkeley.