Periodic Videos

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People often stop me in the street and say: "You are Brady from Numberphile. Can you recommend a good mathematical book for Christmas!" This is entirely untrue. It has never happened. Howeve...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/12/some-nice-mathematical-books.html

If you are a scientist, science student, teacher or somehow involved in science, we need your help. We are collecting "science selfies" of people from Commonwealth countries . Professor Mart...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/11/help-with-selfie.html

Numberphile regular Matt Parker - aka Standupmaths - has a new book out. It's called Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension. I really recommend it. Matt gives a lot of time and en...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/10/matt-parkers-book.html

Every year we do videos for the Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics. It is always bit of a mad scramble to find someone who might have something to say at really short notice! Here are this...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/10/2014-nobel-prizes.html

Just posted a video in which The Brady Numbers came into existence!!! I see they have made it onto Wikipedia, although who knows for how long? Thanks to viewer Marek who subsequently got ...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-first-100-brady-numbers.html

Recently received this amazing message from viewer Filipe (pictured): Dear Brady, Hi.  My name is Filipe (or Philip) and I live in Brazil.  Two years ago aprox, I was working at an Inv...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/09/i-quit-my-job-for-physics.html

So many people have asked about this, I thought I'd write a generic response. Last night (12 September) a new chemistry building at the University of Nottingham was destroyed by fire . Aft...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/09/fire-in-nottingham.html

The most recent Numberphile video about Stable Marriages uses the protagonists from Pride and Prejudice as a key example. I think some people do not realise this. And many more do not reali...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/09/PP.html

The most recent Sixty Symbols video was bit of a departure from the standard fare . Philosopher Jonathan Tallant discusses the role of intuition - or gut feelings - in science. It is an inte...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/08/intuition.html

Okay, here are some answers to frequently asked questions about my YouTube channel Numberphile2 . 1. WHAT IS NUMBERPHILE2? It is the second or supplementary channel to Numberphile . 2. WHAT I...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/08/numberphile2-faq.html

We made this Numberphile video... Then this happened: Hear a discussion about this - and viral videos in general - on Episode 15 of Hello Internet .

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/07/slicing-cake-all-over-place.html

From a viewer named Patti... > My class has been studying probability and yesterday we calculated > the probability of rolling a Yahtzee on the first roll.   > So, toda...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/05/special-roll.html

It's a big deal in the US (and the world) at the moment! Two recent videos from CGP Grey and Vi Hart are well worth watching (and maybe acting upon?) This video by Emily from BlinkPopShift fr...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/05/net-neutrality.html

Not been very active on the blog just lately. Guess that's because I've been busier than usual. Plenty of new videos have been coming out - will list some of the better ones below. Some of ...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/05/HI.html

A poll by author Alex Bellos has found, unsurprisingly, that seven is the world's favourite number ! He's released the results to coincide with his new book - Alex Through the Looking-Glass . ...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/04/favourite-numbers-7-wins-again.html

Regular viewers will be familiar with the music of Alan Stewart. Alan is a physics teacher who composes and performs music in his spare time. I love his work and we've collaborated together o...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/04/alans-album.html

Two Numberphile videos and Matt's own… PLAYLIST OF NUMBERPHILE VIDEOS FEATURING MATT PARKER

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/04/dominoes.html

I am giving a talk tomorrow night and would like to show some pictures of real Numberphile viewers. (Because although I love them, you are more than just numbers to me!) You can help by send...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/02/i-need-your-numberphile-selfie.html

Posted two videos today - one for the ears and one for the eyes! The Sound of Atoms Bonding Hydrogen Bubbles Exploding

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-feast-for-senses.html

Just because it was how things worked out, three videos went up today across three of our channels… Magnesium in Water on periodicvideos: An epic discussion of Stephen Hawking's latest view...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/01/three-in-row.html

Introducing The Ruler of the Universe. A limited edition have been created at the University of Nottingham, where I work with scientists to create Sixty Symbols and Deep Sky Videos (among ot...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/01/ruler.html

A supernova in "nearby" M82 is one of the closest in recent years. There are great images everywhere of SN2014J, and we have done a short film for Deep Sky Videos (see embed below). I emaile...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/01/supernova-in-m82.html

It was almost inevitable, after days of mind-numbing animation, that I would make a mistake in my recent Knight's Tour video … And indeeed I made an error showing the path of magic knight's t...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/01/oops.html

LAST UPDATED FEBRUARY 3 Dr Tony Padilla has written his own response - read it here . And here is a New York Times article on the video . (And see Terry Tao's blog on this topic and analyti...

http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2014/01/thanks.html