Movies vs Books

The latest Numberphile video deals with the perennial question - does Hollywood ruin a book when they make it into a movie?

Hannah Fry takes a statistical look at the issue.

Thanks Audible for sponsoring this video. Start a 30-day trial & receive a free audiobook at https://www.audible.com/numberphile or text numberphile to 500 500 More useful links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ More videos with Hannah Fry: http://bit.ly/hannah_vids Hannah's website: http://www.hannahfry.co.uk Shout outs to Jordan Ellenberg and Walter Hickey.

In the video we created a plot made with data compiled by Walter Hickey.

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If you'd like to download a high resolution version so you dig down and see all the names, CLICK HERE (apologies for the overlapping... it was generated automatically for the video).

The extended interview with Hannah in the booth recording her audio book is on Numberphile 2.

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10 years of Periodic Videos

Today marks the 10th anniversary of our first upload to Periodic Videos.

To mark the occasion, we've released a special film in which Professor Martyn Poliakoff discusses his 10 "favourite videos".

You can watch it here, or watch a YouTube playlist of the 10 videos he selected.

A 10th anniversary special - the Prof's Top 10... These videos as a playlist: http://bit.ly/Prof_PV10 Brady's Top 10: https://youtu.be/ZeqSg6mN6HU 10th anniversary pin: http://bit.ly/Pv10_Pin More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ Featuring Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff. Rubidium in Water https://youtu.be/iP6CRZdDu6o Accidental Reaction https://youtu.be/OLUyeCC-2Ko Chromium Trioxide (fire alarm) https://youtu.be/_HvYJQ5Bofk Pumpkin Chemistry https://youtu.be/O2799XSIlZM Hydrogen Explosions https://youtu.be/qOTgeeTB_kA The Prof on BBC https://youtu.be/gVIirDe50m8 Super Expensive Metals (inc.

To accompany the professor's selection, I've also chosen 10 of my favourites.

You can watch my selection here, or again a playlist of the videos in their entirety.

A 10th anniversary special - Brady's Top 10...

We have also released a special enamel pin to mark our anniversary. You can pre-order the pin here.

Our thanks to everyone who has watched and supported our project over the past 10 years.

It has been so much fun and we can't wait to make more.

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Squaring the Circle - The Documents

This week we posted an Objectivity video featuring Dr James Grime visiting the Royal Society.

Head librarian Keith Moore showed James an intriguing object - an ornamental piece purporting to prove that a circle can indeed be squared.

Dr James Grime joins us at The Royal Society to look at all manner of things from secret codes to fancy objects... More links below ↓↓↓ Featuring Dr James Grime speaking with Brady and Keith Moore.

Sent by a chap named Charles Hudson, based in Calcutta, it was said to show "the solution and demonstration of the quadrature of the circle".

At the time of filming, we did not have the object's accompanying documents.

But, by popular demand, Keith has dug up some correspondence and made it available to us.

You can download it as a PDF here, or see the photo gallery below.

But you may have to transcribe the handwriting yourself. We can't do everything for you.

And of course, as James himself told us on Numberphile, the whole endeavour was later proven to be impossible.

Why squaring the circle - the old-fashioned way - was found to be impossible?

A Vintage Computer Game

Periodic Videos and Computerphile have joined forces to tell the story of a vintage computer game.

Scroll down for links to the PLAY ALL THE GAMES.

In the first video, Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff explains how he commissioned students to make the compilation of chemistry-themed games in the 1980s.

With help from Dr Steve Bagley and a vintage computer, Sir Martyn also tries to play one of them.

See Computerphile on saving the software: https://youtu.be/vskNak4TeRs More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ And see Martyn play the other game: https://youtu.be/B07hBOTx1Ms Links to the games... Emulator Disk 1: http://bit.ly/ChemGame1 Emulator Disk 2: http://bit.ly/ChemGame2 Download the disks: https://github.com/SteveBagley/UoNBeebChem With thanks to Matt Godbolt for emulator help.

In a second video on Computerphile, Dr Bagely discusses with Sean Riley how old software can be revived and run on emulators.

See the Steve and Sir Martyn playing the game on our chemistry channel (Periodic Videos): https://youtu.be/cylNiU0mmHg Links to the games... Emulator Disk 1: http://bit.ly/ChemGame1 Emulator Disk 2: http://bit.ly/ChemGame2 Download the disks: https://github.com/SteveBagley/UoNBeebChem With thanks to Matt Godbolt for emulator help. Information in the game, such as the periodic table and university info, is obvioulsy out of date.

Dr Bagely has also put both sides of the disk on an emulator so you can play the games too.

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SIDE TWO

Our thanks to Matt Godbolt for helping with the emulator.

Note that information in the game, such as the periodic table and university course info, is somewhat out of date. It was the 1980s!

You can also download the software itelf from Dr Bagley's Github here.

And here is a PDF of the game instructions.

This is raw footage of Sir Martyn playing a full game. Main video is at: https://youtu.be/cylNiU0mmHg Computerphile discussion at: https://youtu.be/vskNak4TeRs More links and info in full description ↓↓↓ Links to the games... Emulator Disk 1: http://bit.ly/ChemGame1 Emulator Disk 2: http://bit.ly/ChemGame2 Download the disks: https://github.com/SteveBagley/UoNBeebChem With thanks to Matt Godbolt for emulator help.

Sticker Collecting

I've never been never into sport sticker albums... I was more a collector card kind of guy.

But Panini's World Cup Football Sticker Album does appeal to parts of my brain.

The latest Numberphile video delves into some of the mathematics and probablity behind collecting the 682 stickers in this year's album.

Check out Brilliant (and get 20% off) by clicking https://brilliant.org/numberphile Featuring Federico Ardila --- More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Extra footage (the 'beautiful math' bit): https://youtu.be/iMSitUaoS3I Extra footage (some fun sticker stuff): https://youtu.be/3HIYQNjBr2U Federico Ardila is based at San Francisco State University: http://math.sfsu.edu/federico/ Paul Harper's Cardiff University received much publicity for his sticker calculations (referenced in the video)...

Plus some bonus math footage.

MAIN VIDEO: https://youtu.be/aKPkQCys86c More extras: https://youtu.be/3HIYQNjBr2U Featuring Federico Ardila (mathematician/sticker collector) from San Francisco State University.
More chat (and an amazing coincidence) as we discuss Panini's World Cup football stickers. MAIN VIDEO: https://youtu.be/aKPkQCys86c More extras: https://youtu.be/iMSitUaoS3I Featuring Federico Ardila (mathematician/sticker collector) from San Francisco State University.

Stephen Hawking 1942-2018

Unsurprisingly, Stephen Hawking and his his work has regularly featured in our videos.

I imagine it will continue to do so.

Stephen Hawking just scooped a $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize. Our very own Dr Tony Padilla (who missed out on a prize this year) discusses three of Professor Hawking's most famous pieces of work.
As Eddie Redmayne picks up the Academy Award for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking, Brady and Keith look at some famous autographs from British scientists portrayed in the Oscar-nominated films. Brady's previous video on The Royal Society Charter Book can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wX-l8GFBq8 Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ObjectivityVideos And Twitter at https://twitter.com/objectivity_vid Royal Society: http://bit.ly/Royal_Society Films by James Hennessy and Brady Haran
Stephen Hawking enters the recent debate around black holes and firewalls - by suggesting event horizons may not exist! Dr Tony Padilla and Professor Ed Copeland discuss Hawking's recent paper.
Casimir Effect, Black Holes and Hawking Radiation.
Stephen Hawking and colleagues have a new paper about how information may be preserved by black holes. EXTRAS CUT FROM THIS INTERVIEW: https://youtu.be/ML5zJ0gCE70 The Hawking paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00921 See also: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.01147.pdf Discussed by Tony Padilla from the University of Nottingham. Some notes: We filmed this well before Hawking's paper came out but decided it was still interesting to watch.
Primordial Black Holes, featuring Professor Ed Copeland from the University of Nottingham. More black hole videos: http://bit.ly/Black_Hole_Videos More Ed Copeland videos: http://bit.ly/CopelandGoesLong Post script... Ed points out "the Planck era is usually associated with the Quantum Gravity scale associated with the beginning of the universe and is thought to be before the Inflation epoch."

Square Sums

Matt Parker discusses a problem involving Square Sums. Go deeper with extra footage: https://youtu.be/7_ph5djCCnM More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ More Matt Parker on Numberphile: http://bit.ly/Matt_Videos Matt's projects and other stuff: http://standupmaths.com This problem is discussed in Matt's book: http://amzn.to/2mksdD5 Thanks to Charlie Turner - more from her in Part 2: https://youtu.be/7_ph5djCCnM Parker Square T-Shirts: http://bit.ly/ParkerSquareTshirt Numberphile is supported by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI): http://bit.ly/MSRINumberphile We are also supported by Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative dedicated to engaging everyone with the process of science.

Part Two is also well worth a look, but you need to have watched Part One.

Make sure you first see the main video at: https://youtu.be/G1m7goLCJDY More links in full description below... Please look ↓↓↓ Featuring Matt Parker and Charlie Turner Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker: http://amzn.to/2mksdD5 More Matt Parker on Numberphile: http://bit.ly/Matt_Videos Matt's own website and other stuff: http://standupmaths.com Charlie used Sage...

Here's a slower look at the sequence Charlie Turner put together in Part Two.

The videos feature Matt Parker and Charlie.

Matt's book - as discussed - can be found here.

More Matt on Numberphile can be found via this playlist.