Show Notes
Tony Padilla is known on Numberphile for tackling the big numbers... But by day he's a cosmologist at the University of Nottingham. Tony's also a life-long fan of Liverpool FC. Brady joined him at Anfield for a game against Watford.
Tony at the University of Nottingham - https://www.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 - https://amzn.to/3JYQbws
Amazon UK - https://amzn.to/3M3yvB8
MacMillan US - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374600570/fantasticnumbersandwheretofindthem
Penguin UK - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316/316964/fantastic-numbers-and-where-to-find-them/9780241445372.html
Some videos with Tony on Numberphile - http://bit.ly/Padilla_Numberphile
And some videos with Tony on Sixty Symbols - https://bit.ly/Padilla_SixtySymbols
The Sum of the Integers being -1/12 - https://www.bradyharanblog.com/blog/2015/1/11/this-blog-probably-wont-help
Liverpool v Watford on 2 April 2022 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eHdk_1mJqA
You can 'watch' the podcasts, including this one, on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH2AOVeIaWFmnXrXQ_UhKVy9Zp0RtRMm5
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