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Brady Haran · 64 episodes with transcripts

Interviews with people who love numbers and mathematics. Hosted by Brady Haran, maker of the Numberphile series on YouTube.

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Latest The Numberphile Podcast transcripts

The Glimmer in our Eye - with Grant Sanderson from 3Blue1Brown

September 28, 2026

Brady Haran (0:01)

Since the possible solving of the elusive Navier-Stokes problem, insert asterisk here, it seems everyone's talking about AI and mathematics. I mean, they're talking about AI everywhere, aren't they? But it's certainly making its presence felt in the world of math. I've been talking to a few people about it recently…

But before I started asking Grant about all that big picture stuff, I wanted to find out whether AI was having an impact on him personally, as a guy who makes YouTube videos.

Grant Sanderson (1:24)

Man, okay. I feel like every time that you ask about AI in some way, it's worth separating out what specifically you mean, because it can mean like 20 different things. And so on this front, you've got like using it as part of the creation pipeline, is like one way that question would be relevant. One is like as a…

And then there's like, you actually were describing this before we recorded and it resonated so much where you said you feel a certain obligation to like comment about the goings on of AI and math. And you're like, I kind of want to just keep doing my normal thing. And so one of the most salient things in my mind…

Brady Haran (4:05)

Obviously, the nature of your videos that are very, you know, they are made with software and computer animation. Are you finding people are accusing you of making them with AI anyway, despite the fact you're hand crafting them?

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