Numberphile’s most viewed videos of 2021
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Snapshot from 19 Oct 2026.
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Bertrand's Paradox (with 3blue1brown) - Numberphile
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Gambling with the Martingale Strategy - Numberphile
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Gabriel's Horn Paradox - Numberphile
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The Doomsday Algorithm - Numberphile
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The Math of Being a Greedy Pig - Numberphile
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How to make railway timetables (with graphs) - Numberphile
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The Strange Orbit of Earth's Second Moon (plus The Planets) - Numberphile
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A proof that e is irrational - Numberphile
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The Most Wanted Prime Number - Numberphile
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The Lightning Algorithm - Numberphile
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The Volume of a Sphere - Numberphile
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A Problem with Rectangles - Numberphile
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Witness Numbers (and the truthful 1,662,803) - Numberphile
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Three Dice Trick - Numberphile
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Finite Fields & Return of The Parker Square - Numberphile
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Key to the Tower of Hanoi - Numberphile
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Music on a Clear Möbius Strip - Numberphile
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Hitomezashi Stitch Patterns - Numberphile
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Get Off The Earth (a famous & bamboozling problem) - Numberphile
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Conic Loaf of Bread - Numberphile
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Chaotic Balls (and other animations) - Numberphile
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Parabolas and Archimedes - Numberphile
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A Video about the Number 10 - Numberphile
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The Largest Small Hexagon - Numberphile
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Omicron (the symbol) in Mathematics - Numberphile
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Infinitely Many Touching Circles - Numberphile
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Eureka Sequences - Numberphile
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Mathematics is all about SHORTCUTS - Numberphile
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Cuneiform Numbers - Numberphile
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Planing Sequences (Le Rabot) - Numberphile
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The Levine Sequence - Numberphile
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All the World's Coronavirus fits in a Coke Can - Numberphile
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Annoying Puzzles (and Cognitive Reflection Problems) - Numberphile
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Trapped Water and Tiny Holes - Numberphile
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A Sequence with a Mistake - Numberphile
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Stacked Dice Trick - Numberphile
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The Drag Equation (Empire State Building v Eiffel Tower) - Numberphile
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Area of the Q - Numberphile
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Hidden Dice Faces - Numberphile
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Nightingale Diagrams - Numberphile
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Quasiperfect Numbers with Eric Lander - Numberphile