The Numberphile Podcast

Sashko Olenchenko is doing a masters in mathematical physics with a sideline making videos on YouTube - occasionally interrupted by drone attacks from Russia.

Brady answers all manner of viewer questions about Numberphile - and a few unrelated topics too.

Chris Oates is a professor of statistics at Newcastle University - he got there despite being somewhat indecisive about his career.

Po-Ling Loh is an American theoretical statistician based at the University of Cambridge. She discusses her childhood, choosing a university, and her path to higher dimensional statistics and differential privacy.

There’s a new largest known prime number and we speak to all the key players, including the discoverer Luke Durant. Also featured in the podcast are George Woltman from GIMPS, James Grime, and Matt Parker.