Hi everyone, I just wanted to post a really quick video here on the main Numberphile channel about something new
I'm doing that might be of interest. And that is a Numberphile podcast.
Obviously I travel all over the place meeting mathematicians and
number-y people making short videos, but also in recent years
I've started making a couple of podcasts. And it got me thinking,
it seems crazy that I'm travelling around and meeting all these people who've got so much to say and just making these short videos;
I could make a podcast with them as well. So that's what I'm doing. The first three episodes are up already,
they're interviews with Hannah Fry - which is the one that's just gone up today.
[Hannah Fry:] "Although I was a massive nerd,
what I really want you to do was be a hairdresser. And my mum was like, okay, what we'll do:
you just do your A levels and then we'll talk about this again.
So I did maths, physics and chemistry A levels. And then after I did my A levels I was like, you know
I still would quite like to do a hairdressing course.
My mum was like: tell you what, just go off to university and do an undergraduate degree in maths with theoretical physics. And then after that-
(Brady: We'll talk about hairdressing) - We'll talk about it.
And then, yeah, by the time I'd finish my PhD
I was like, probably not gonna be a hairdresser." - Grant Sanderson from 3blue1brown, that's a really good listen.
[Grant Sanderson:] "I don't think it would be good if everyone wanted to be a mathematician
because the cold hard truth is it's not,
it's not useful enough. Like pure math, in and of itself, isn't useful enough for too many people to be doing it.
I'm gonna make that statement,
I don't know if I stand by it,
but I think I do." - And Ken Ribet, a man who played a major role in the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
[Ken Ribet:] "When Andrew first heard about the flaw, in July of 1993, I guess he didn't believe that it was all that serious.
He thought it would just, need patching up.
So he must have been aware that I was out there, you know beating his drum
but he never told me.
So it took months before I found out how serious the problem was."
Now you can listen to the Numberphile podcast in the usual podcast ways,
it should be on most of the players if you go and get your phone, or however you listen to
podcasts - do the usual search. You probably know what you're doing by now.
I'll also include some links in the description. But I know some of you aren't too red hot on using podcast players just yet,
so I'm also putting the episodes on the Numberphile2
YouTube channel. Do you know about the Numberphile2 YouTube channel? That's where I put extra stuff from Numberphile main videos;
outtakes, bonus material; and also now it's the home of the Numberphile podcast.
So if you don't want to listen to it on your phone or in headphones,
you can just play on a tab on your computer and have it running in the background. More details down in the video description.
Numberphile podcast - check it out. I'll be back in the next day or two with a normal Numberphile video