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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, the Riemann hypothesis and Kruskal's tree theorem. 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, mat

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Instance of
web series
Main subject
mathematics
Official website
www.numberphile.com
Image
Brady Haran 01 (cropped).jpg
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inception
2011-09-15
presenter
Brady Haran
social media followers
263000
number of viewers/listeners
21459231
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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • YouTube channel
  • Reception
  • Contributors
  • ''The Numberphile Podcast''
  • References
  • External links

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, the Riemann hypothesis and Kruskal's tree theorem. 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, maths communicators and famous mathematicians.

In 2018, Haran released a spin-off audio podcast titled The Numberphile Podcast.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Numberphile” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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