129videosNumberphile
4.79M subscribers on YouTube
Shorts, livestreams, trailers and promos are never listed. Unless a curator approved this channel in full, only individually picked videos appear.
Playlists · 60
All 60 playlists
- Cliff Stoll on Numberphile · 23 videos
- Festival of Spoken Nerd on Numberphile · 23 videos
- Director's Cut on Numberphile · 22 videos
- Tom Crawford on Numberphile · 21 videos
- Alex Bellos on Numberphile · 20 videos
- Dice on Numberphile · 17 videos
- Cards and Shuffling on Numberphile · 17 videos
- Fields Medallists on Numberphile · 16 videos
- Simon Pampena on Numberphile · 16 videos
- Klein Bottles on Numberphile · 14 videos
- Hannah Fry on Numberphile · 14 videos
- Sport on Numberphile · 14 videos
- Infinity on Numberphile · 13 videos
- Chess on Numberphile · 13 videos
- Cryptography on Numberphile and Computerphile · 13 videos
- Zvezdelina Stankova on Numberphile · 12 videos
- Holly Krieger on Numberphile · 12 videos
- Videos links to Brady's Zeeman Lecture · 12 videos
- Ed Copeland on Numberphile · 11 videos
- Knots on Numberphile · 11 videos
- Graph Theory on Numberphile · 10 videos
- Triangles on Numberphile · 10 videos
- David Eisenbud on Numberphile · 10 videos
- Golden Ratio on Numberphile · 10 videos
- Cakes & Cutting on Numberphile · 10 videos
- Möbius Strips on Numberphile · 10 videos
- Richard Elwes on Numberphile · 9 videos
- Ayliean MacDonald on Numberphile · 9 videos
- Sophie Maclean on Numberphile · 9 videos
- Circles on Numberphile · 9 videos
- Carlo Séquin on Numberphile · 9 videos
- Asaf Karagila on Numberphile · 8 videos
- Katie Steckles on Numberphile · 8 videos
- Marcus Du Sautoy on Numberphile · 8 videos
- Mersenne Primes on Numberphile · 8 videos
- From Sixty Symbols · 7 videos
- Edward Frenkel on Numberphile · 7 videos
- Coins on Numberphile · 7 videos
- Football (soccer) on Numberphile · 7 videos
- Rubik's Cube on Numberphile · 7 videos
- Matt Henderson on Numberphile · 7 videos
- Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) on Numberphile · 7 videos
- Magic Squares on Numberphile · 7 videos
- Henry Segerman on Numberphile · 7 videos
- John Conway on Numberphile · 6 videos
- Perfect Numbers on Numberphile · 6 videos
- Johnny Ball on Numberphile · 6 videos
- -1/12 · 6 videos

All the Numbers - Numberphile
1.8M viewsTours the number systems from naturals to integers, rationals, reals, complex numbers and beyond, and why each extension was needed.

Graham's Number - Numberphile
3.04M viewsExplains Graham's number and Knuth's up-arrow notation, and the Ramsey-theory problem it came from.

Pi and the Mandelbrot Set - Numberphile
881K viewsShows the surprising appearance of π in iteration counts near the 'neck' of the Mandelbrot set.

Randomness is Random - Numberphile
893K viewsDiscusses what it means for a sequence to be random and how mathematicians test randomness.
16:58Reynolds Number - Numberphile
560K viewsExplains the Reynolds number, dimensionless analysis and how it predicts laminar versus turbulent flow.

Strange Spheres in Higher Dimensions - Numberphile
767K viewsExplores the counter-intuitive behaviour of spheres packed in boxes in higher dimensions.

The Best (and Worst) Ways to Shuffle Cards - Numberphile
2.29M viewsStatistician Persi Diaconis explains how many shuffles randomise a deck and which shuffling methods work.

The Golden Ratio (why it is so irrational) - Numberphile
3.88M viewsWhy the golden ratio is the 'most irrational' number, via continued fractions and sunflower seeds.

The Josephus Problem - Numberphile
6.97M viewsSolves the Josephus problem by finding the pattern and proving it via binary representation.
32:11Darts in Higher Dimensions (with 3blue1brown) - Numberphile
2.15M viewsA darts puzzle solved with geometry in higher dimensions, worked through by Grant Sanderson.
13:52Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem - Numberphile
2.4M viewsGödel's incompleteness theorem: how self-reference shows that consistent arithmetic has unprovable truths.
21:03Navier-Stokes Equations - Numberphile
1.59M viewsWhat the Navier–Stokes equations describe, term by term, and why their existence-and-smoothness question is a Millennium Prize problem.
16:45The Clever Way to Count Tanks - Numberphile
2.31M viewsThe German tank problem: estimating the size of a population from serial numbers, as Allied statisticians did in WWII.
18:55The Feigenbaum Constant (4.669) - Numberphile
1.65M viewsThe Feigenbaum constant: period-doubling bifurcations and universality in chaotic systems.
14:18The Four Color Map Theorem - Numberphile
1.97M viewsThe four colour map theorem: its statement, history and the first major computer-assisted proof.
13:00The Moving Sofa Problem - Numberphile
1.67M viewsThe moving sofa problem: the largest shape that can turn a right-angled corner, and the best-known solutions.
16:53What's so special about the Mandelbrot Set? - Numberphile
2.76M viewsWhat makes the Mandelbrot set special: its connection to the dynamics of quadratic maps and the logistic map.

Pi and Buffon's Matches - Numberphile
670K viewsEstimating π by dropping matches: Buffon's needle problem.
12:25Fantastic Quaternions - Numberphile
A 12-minute video from Numberphile: “Fantastic Quaternions - Numberphile”.
8:23How Big is Graham's Number? (feat Ron Graham)
A 8-minute video from Numberphile: “How Big is Graham's Number? (feat Ron Graham)”.
6:28Mile of Pi - Numberphile
A 6-minute video from Numberphile: “Mile of Pi - Numberphile”.

Was YOUR vote counted? (feat. homomorphic encryption) - Numberphile
197K viewsHow homomorphic encryption lets votes be tallied while still encrypted, so each voter can check their vote was counted.
6:271,296 and Yahtzee - Numberphile
A 6-minute video from Numberphile's catalogue; the title names its topic.
3:2010! - Numberphile
A 3-minute video from Numberphile's catalogue; the title names its topic.
22:53100000001 is divisible by 17 - Numberphile
A 23-minute video from Numberphile's catalogue; the title names its topic.
7:441010011010 - Numberphile
A 8-minute video from Numberphile's catalogue; the title names its topic.
7:2011.11.11 - Numberphile
A 7-minute video from Numberphile's catalogue; the title names its topic.
7:4613,983,816 and the Lottery - Numberphile
A 8-minute video from Numberphile's catalogue; the title names its topic.
5:0913532385396179 - Numberphile
A 5-minute video from Numberphile's catalogue; the title names its topic.
8:3414 Super Bowl Coin Tosses - Numberphile
A 9-minute video from Numberphile's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:3714 and Shakespeare the Numbers Man - Numberphile
A 5-minute video from Numberphile's catalogue; the title names its topic.
8:31145 and the Melancoil - Numberphile
A 9-minute video from Numberphile's catalogue; the title names its topic.
7:5815 and Hexadecimal - Numberphile
A 8-minute video from Numberphile's catalogue; the title names its topic.
3:3315 bumfit - Numberphile
A 4-minute video from Numberphile's catalogue; the title names its topic.
11:52158,962,555,217,826,360,000 (Enigma Machine) - Numberphile
A 12-minute video from Numberphile's catalogue; the title names its topic.
5:3516 - Numberphile
A 6-minute video from Numberphile's catalogue; the title names its topic.
Books that go with these videos
- Humble Pi, Matt ParkerBy Numberphile regular Matt Parker
- The Joy of x, Steven StrogatzSteven Strogatz's friendly tour of the big ideas in maths
As an Amazon Associate, BrighterTube earns from qualifying purchases.










