Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Featuring Tony Padilla. Check brilliant.org/numberphile for Brilliant and get 20% off their premium service (episode sponsor)
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Tony at the University of Nottingham - nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/antonio.padilla

Order Tony's book Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
Amazon US - amzn.to/3JYQbws
Amazon UK - amzn.to/3M3yvB8
MacMillan US - us.macmillan.com/books/9780374600570/fantasticnumbersandwheretofindthem
Penguin UK - penguin.co.uk/books/316/316964/fantastic-numbers-and-where-to-find-them/9780241445372.html

Some videos with Tony on Numberphile - bit.ly/Padilla_Numberphile

And some videos with Tony on Sixty Symbols - bit.ly/Padilla_SixtySymbols

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