Numberphile
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| Created by | Brady Haran | |||||||||
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| Years active | September 15, 2011 – present | |||||||||
| Genre | Educational entertainment | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 3.0 million[1] | |||||||||
| Total views | 428 million[1] | |||||||||
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| Website | https://www.numberphile.com/ | |||||||||
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Last updated: September 9, 2019 | ||||||||||
Numberphile is an educational YouTube channel featuring videos that explore topics from a variety of fields of mathematics. In the early days of the channel, each video focused on a specific number, but the channel has since expanded its scope, featuring videos on more advanced mathematical concepts such as Fermat's Last Theorem and the Riemann hypothesis. The videos are produced by Brady Haran, a former BBC video journalist and creator of Periodic Videos, Sixty Symbols, and several other YouTube channels. Videos on the channel feature several university professors, math communicators, and famous mathematicians.
In 2018, Haran released a spin-off audio podcast titled The Numberphile Podcast.[2]
YouTube channel
The Numberphile YouTube channel was started on September 15, 2011. Most videos consist of Haran interviewing an expert on a number, mathematical theorem, or other mathematical concept. The expert usually draws out their explanation on a large piece of brown paper and attempt to make the concepts understandable to the average, non-mathematician viewer. It is supported by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and Math for America.[3][4] Haran also runs the "Numberphile2" channel, which includes extra footage and further detail than the main channel.[5]
The channel was nominated for a Shorty Award in Education in 2016.[6] The New York Times has said, "At Numberphile, mathematicians discourse, enthusiastically and winningly, on numbers".[7]
Contributors
The channel has featured a wide array of mathematicians, computer scientists, scientists, and science writers, including:[8]
- Alex Bellos
- Elwyn Berlekamp
- Brian Butterworth
- John Conway
- Ed Copeland
- Persi Diaconis
- Rob Eastaway
- Laurence Eaves
- David Eisenbud
- Edward Frenkel
- Hannah Fry
- Lisa Goldberg
- James Grime
- Ron Graham
- Don Knuth
- Holly Krieger
- James Maynard
- Barry Mazur
- Steve Mould
- Colm Mulcahy
- Matt Parker
- Ken Ribet
- Tom Scott
- Carlo H. Séquin
- Jim Simons
- Simon Singh
- Neil Sloane
- Clifford Stoll
- Terence Tao
- Tadashi Tokieda
- Mariel Vázquez
- Cédric Villani[9]
- Zvezdelina Stankova
The Numberphile Podcast
| The Numberphile Podcast | |
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| Presentation | |
| Hosted by | Brady Haran |
| Genre | Interview |
| Language | English |
| Length | 36–75 minutes |
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| No. of episodes | 11 (As of 31 August 2019[update])[10] |
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| Original release | 4 November 2018 |
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| Website | www |
Haran started a podcast titled The Numberphile Podcast in 2018 as a sister project. The podcast more heavily focus on the lives and personalities of some of the subjects of the videos.[11]
| No. | Title | Run Time | Original release date |
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| 1 | "The Hope Diamond (with 3Blue1Brown)" | 1:03:20 | 12 December 2018 |
| 2 | "Fermat’s Last Theorem (with Ken Ribet)" | 48:22 | 12 February 2018 |
| 3 | "Delicious Problems (with Hannah Fry)" | 52:00 | 12 May 2018 |
| 4 | "The Klein Bottle Guy (with Cliff Stoll)" | 59:08 | 19 January 2019 |
| 5 | "The Math Storyteller (with Simon Singh)" | 1:11:36 | 11 February 2019 |
| 6 | "Parker Square (with Matt Parker)" | 52:04 | 24 February 2019 |
| 7 | "A Proof in the Drawer (with David Eisenbud)" | 1:15:20 | 8 April 2019 |
| 8 | "The Offensive Lineman (with John Urschel)" | 36:43 | 14 May 2019 |
| 9 | "The Singing Banana (with James Grime)" | 1:13:21 | 20 May 2019 |
| 10 | "The C-Word (talking Calculus with Steven Strogatz)" | 51:17 | 17 June 2019 |
| 11 | "The Number Collector (with Neil Sloane)" | 55:36 | 14 August 2019 |
| 12 | "Fame and Admiration (with Timothy Gowers)" | 54:25 | 22 October 2019 |
| 13 | "The Badly Behaved Prime (with James Maynard)" | 41:38 | 10 November 2019 |
References
- ^ a b "About Numberphile". YouTube.
- ^ "The Numberphile Podcast". Brady Haran. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
- ^ Numberphile sponsors Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
- ^ Numberphile Nominated in Education 8th Annual Shorty Awards
- ^ Haran, Brady. "Numberphile2". YouTube. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^ The 8th Annual Shorty Award Alexis Joy, January 19, 2016
- ^ Genres Stretch, for Better and Worse, as YouTube Takes On TV By Mike Hale, New York Times, April 24, 2012
- ^ Guest speakers on Numberphile MSRI
- ^ Haran, Brady. "Cedric Villani on Numberphile". YouTube. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
- ^ "Podcast". Numberphile. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
- ^ Haran, Brady. "The Numberphile Podcast". Brady Haran. Retrieved 10 September 2019.