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JAMES GRIME: They wanted to find out the number of moves it would take to solve the most difficult combination. And this number would be called God's number. If you have perfect knowledge of...
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JAMES GRIME: It's maths news. We all love maths news, right? So recently the Abel Prize was announced. The Abel Prize is like the Nobel Prize for mathematics. So the winner of this...
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BRADY HARAN: So today I'm going to do something I've never done before, I'm going to phone a Numberphile file viewer. And the reason for that is this viewer has a very special...
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DR. JAMES GRIME: This is such an inspiring story, because it shows how mathematicians can save lives. We're talking about one of the most famous cipher machines of all time. It's a...
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ROGER BOWLEY: The number I want to talk about now is the square root of 2. JAMES GRIME: My favorite fact about root 2? Well, if you take the A series of paper. So this is A4 paper. It's pretty...
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MATT PARKER: See, most people forgot about the Rubik's Cube back in the '80s, so it had its heyday and then disappeared. But mathematicians remain obsessed with it. KATIE STECKLES: I...
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DR. JAMES GRIME: Yeah, but like all mathematicians, he's tall, blond, and handsome. Yeah? Yeah? -Well, he's not tall or blond or-- is he? DR. JAMES GRIME: Yeah. -Is he? He's...
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DR. JAMES GRIME: So Zeno's paradox is a problem that's not just of interest to mathematicians, like myself. But it's also of interest to physicists and philosophers. And it has been for thousands of...
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PETE WATTS: Well, the number 666 is pretty famous, or I suppose you could say infamous. 666 is called the number of the beast. And the reason that the number 666 has become infamous is not just...
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