Brady and Tony always seem to have a great rapport in their videos together, and you can hear that coming through in this conversation. Excellent episode 👍

Dear Brady, Thank you for considering previous comments, I can watch your podcast on my oled TV now without burnin.

As an LFC fan (> 40 years) I thoroughly enjoyed this session, thank you!

Finally!! I’ve been waiting for this podcast.

I’ve spotted Tony’s Liverpool tea mug before, and pleased to learn that Brady supports Liverpool too. YNWA

pre-order in. Looking forward to this book for sure.

Great interview! I "escaped" the tribal football-supporters' mentality (or should I say enthusiasm?) by being born _after_ dad had moved from his beloved Stoke. Occasionally I look at the results (and usually regret it) and couldn't name a single member of the team. Nor their manager. Mind you, I still dimly remember being at Wembley in 1972 when they suprisingly managed 2-1 against Chelsea in the League Cup Final. It's mostly been downhill from there. Mainly, I came here to say (apart from thanks for the great pod) another thank you: for putting in the description the link to Lenny Susskind's lecture; I'd seen it before and was totally unable to find which one it was. So was planning a terrible "Lenny says, but I can't tell you where..." post. Edit: Brady's link to Lenny is on Brady's blog. As an ex-programmer, I'd have to confess to a 'level of indirection' error, there.

A pleasure to listen as always!

We have been looking foward to this!

I like these interviews you do. I hope you enjoyed that game. :)

You know, you can really hear his Scouse accent a lot more when Tony is on his way to the stadium. As a Boston Red Sox fan, I can say that my accent comes out a lot more when I go to the ballgame. Cheers lads!

You'll Never Walk Alone!

I love Prof Padilla, which we had more videos from him.

Fun Podcast Brady and Tony - thanks for that. Just a side note related to Tony's simultaneous love of both football and math. G.H. Hardy was an ardent cricket fan, so Tony's in good company! :-)

As both a Tony fan and a Watford fan I'm deeply conflicted by this episode 🤣

@renerpho

2 жыл бұрын

Best wishes to Watford. They can still make it!

Loved this episode, found it incredibly relatable as a fellow Hispanic and diehard sports fan! :)

The fact he remembers the first sum he got wrong is hauntingly beautiful.

Please make a numberphile video with Tony when his book comes out. I’m gonna forget to buy it otherwise

@numberphile2

2 жыл бұрын

You can order it now. Links in the notes.

5 + [unknown symbol] = 6 is perfectly reasonable logic. It must be a greater than 5. 6 is greater than 5.

Excellent stuff Tony, great to hear. No wonder I always used to lose at Yahtzee...........

As a massive googology fan I am certainly excited for this

I can imagine as a little kid that you would think we are adding something- so it must be SOMETHING- so SIX!

I don't understand the link between big numbers and football

@renerpho

2 жыл бұрын

Tony is the link.

Just listened to this today (19 APR) during my commute. Funny that Professor Padilla kept predicting a 4-0 win over Watford, but when I arrived home, discovered LIV over MU 2-0 (the LIV-WAT score).... only to end... FOUR-NIL! Not as big as some of SOU's losses (9-0, 6-0.... and yes, I'm a Saints fan!)... but would you consider that a 'big number'? Certainly was a big embarrassment for a SOU supporter.

@renerpho

2 жыл бұрын

A large number is usually understood as one that's "significantly larger than those typically used in everyday life". So I'd say yes, 6 and 9 are obviously large numbers in the context of football (sorry). Not sure about 4.

The book certainly sounded interesting. Kindle (digital) versión 20€. That's more than what a normal hard cover book costs. And this is a digital copy. Sorry, that's too much

Liv 7 - 0 Man Utd Just watch this podcast today, seems very appropriate 😂

I'm going to disagree with Tony a bit here, but before that I want to emphasize that Tony is great! This criticism is not meant to detract from all the amazing work he has done on this channel. I still adore his explanations in other Numberphile videos. Concerning the -1/12 video, Tony keeps talking about how other people take the video out of context. But that's centering himself in this whole thing. He's treating the video as if its purpose was to glorify him and show off how much he knows, rather than being about showing some cool mathematics to the public. He talks about people's comments and videos "taking stuff out of context" and even explicitly mentions how _he_ knows the stuff people mention in their comments and video responses. But the criticisms (at least from other mathematicians and physicists) have never actually been about what _Tony_ knows or doesn't know. Those responses have always been about the *lack of context* which the -1/12 video itself left for the viewers. By providing context to the general public that the Numberphile video didn't, Tony finds those comments and videos to be taking things out of the context of what he personally knew but didn't say. Tony complains about a particular video (and I'm guessing it's the Mathologer video), and sure, that video takes a jab at Numberphile in the title, but I find that the Mathologer video is _the_ single video on KZread which does the best job of *bringing* context to the entire topic precisely for an audience which has seen some calculus before but not the advanced techniques needed for the result. For Tony to constantly be annoyed that others "take the video out of context" is entirely missing the point by making it all about himself instead of mathematics communication. I understand that constantly receiving flak based on the video makes it hard _not_ to take it personally, but he needs to overcome that and stop making the entire video about his own knowledge rather than about presenting information to the viewer. And if it helps Tony to understand why people like me are still irked by this, I'll provide some examples. _Just this week_ (almost _NINE_ years after the original video was published), I saw more KZread comments on other math videos which write off somewhat-counterintuitive-but-correct-and-well-explained mathematical results as "like that -1/12 bs". The video may have inspired some people to learn more mathematics, but it also gave others a crutch allowing them not to even think about things they don't like. These people probably wouldn't have liked those results anyway, but they probably would have had to, at least, wrestle with the arguments in order to "counter" it. Instead, they now have a convenient excuse to avoid thinking at all.

@lemonflavouredtnt6969

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know what he’s defending, it’s simply not true that -1/12 is the answer. He reorders the terms of a divergent series, it’s not valid.