Numberphile collaborates with Dave Brown and Professor Phil Moriarty to create a “math metal” or “math rock” song about Phi… Dave’s excellent YouTube channel is: http://www.youtube.com/user/wwwboyinabandcom (He did amazing work on this song for us – the least you can do is check out his other work!) Professor Phil Moriarty is a physicist (and wannabe rocker) at [...]
Sometimes infinity is even bigger than you think… Dr James Grime explains with a little help from Georg Cantor. Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile James Grime: http://singingbanana.com/ Videos by Brady Haran
Without math, would our seafaring ancestors ever have seen the world? Great mathematical thinkers and their revolutionary discoveries have an incredible story. Explore the beginnings of logarithms through the history of navigation, adventure and new worlds. Lesson by George Christoph, animation by the Hobizals.
Numberphile pays a visit to YouTube and learns the secret behind one of the website’s famous idiosyncrasies – why view counts on new videos often freeze at 301. Subscribe to numberphile for new videos about numbers every week. Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Videos by Brady Haran
What do we do now that all 4,294,967,296 IP addresses have been given out? James Clewett discusses. Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Videos by Brady Haran
An expert on the philosophy of mathematics, Dr Jonathan Tallant, outlines some of the key arguments about whether or not numbers ACTUALLY EXIST? Exploring platonism, nominalism and fictionalism. Jonathan works in the University of Nottingham’s Philosophy Department. Brady does more philosophy videos with Jonathan and the others athttp://www.youtube.com/user/PhilosophyFile Jonathan talks about the philosophy of time [...]
We discuss millions, billions, trillions and centillions is this film about the long and short scales. We also touch on quadrillions, sextillions, milliards, billiards and the Greek myriad. Featuring Dr James Grime and Dr Tony Padilla. Moe about them athttp://www.numberphile.com/team/index.html Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Videos by Brady Haran
The lucky number “sieve” was developed by the legendary Stanislaw Ulam, who was born and died on the 13th of the month (lucky number) at the age of 75 (lucky number)… and his birth year of 1909 saw the release of a film called The Lucky Number. Just saying! This video features Dr Ria Symonds [...]
Sexy primes are prime numbers which differ by six – but what is an “Octomus Prime”??? Featuring Dr James Grime. James Tweets athttps://twitter.com/#!/jamesgrime Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Videos by Brady Haran
666 (and sometimes 616) is the notorious Number of the Beast… what’s all that about? And what has roulette got to do with it!? Pete Watts shares all sorts of other interesting bits of trivia from the Bible at Brady’s Bibledex channel: http://www.youtube.com/bibledex
We’re planting sunflowers in the interests of numbery research and the memory of Alan Turing. Get involved athttp://www.manchestersciencefestival.com/connect/getinvolved/sunflowers This video features Dr James Grime… More about him athttp://singingbanana.com/ Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Videos by Brady Haran
A number so epic it will collapse your brain into a black hole! Yet Tony Padilla and Matt Parker take the risk of discussing its magnitude. Watch with caution. See also our video about the Googol and Googolplex at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GEebx72-qs Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Videos by Brady Haran More about Matt and Tony at: http://www.numberphile.com/team/index.html [...]
Almost all numbers contain the digit three – and we can prove it!? Featuring Dr James Grime, whose website is http://www.singingbanana.com/ Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Videos by Brady Haran
The chance of picking the six winning numbers from the 49 balls in the UK National Lottery is one in 13,983,816 – on the other hand, the odds of selecting no balls??? Number-loving physicist James Clewett attempts to “pick some winners”! Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Videos by Brady Haran
