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In The Universe Speaks in Numbers award-winning science writer Graham Farmelo is in conversation with some of the great names in modern physics and mathematics. Among the interviewees are Mi...

Phil Anderson was one of the most creative theoretical physicists of the past century. Among dozens of key contributions, he pioneered our u...

The second part of leading theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed's inspiring interview with Graham about the mysterious harmony between pu...

Cosmologist Martin Rees, a pioneer of multiverse concept, is one of the most productive and respected thinkers about the origins and develop...

The interplay between fundamental physics and pure mathematics has led to many remarkable mathematical insights over the past fifty years. K...

Steven Weinberg is perhaps the most accomplished living theoretical physicist. Now based at the University of Texas at Austin, he has made s...

Much of understanding of the universe at the finest level is based on modern field theory, rooted in the pioneering contributions of the nin...

The discoveries the Simon Donaldson made in the early 1980s about four-dimensional spaces 'stunned the mathematical world', his research adv...

Douglas Stanford and Pedro Vieira are two of the most brilliant young theoretical physicists who are seeking to understand nature at its fin...

Fundamental physics and pure mathematics have never been so closely intertwined. Over the past few decades, some of the world’s leading theo...

'Black holes have become one of the liveliest areas of theoretical research. By thinking about these cosmic objects, using quantum theory an...

One of the hottest topics in modern physics is trying to understand the scattering of fundamental particles with neither shape nor size - on...

Graham’s guest in this edition is the membrane pioneer Michael Duff. Soon after the Second String Theory Revolution, which began in 1995, me...

‘The most perfect microscopic structures in the known universe’ – that is the exquisite description of sub-nuclear scattering amplitudes giv...

The Dutchman Robbert Dijkgraaf is a rarity – not only is he a top-class mathematical physicist, he is also one of the world’s finest science...

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Greg Moore. Physics and mathematics seem to be in ‘pre-established harmony’, a phrase tha...

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Freeman Dyson. Freeman Dyson talks about his being both a theoretical physicist and a mat...

What do philosophers of physics do, and what light might they shed on the work of today’s physicists and astronomers? Michela Massimi, a dis...

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Juan Maldacena. Juan Maldacena has been described as the first great theoretician of the...

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Sir Roger Penrose. Sir Roger Penrose, a hybrid mathematician-cosmologist, is one of the m...

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Michael Green. Michael Green is one of the pioneers of the string framework. In collabora...

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Edward Witten. Edward Witten is widely regarded as the pre-eminent theoretical physicist...

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Val Gibson. Val Gibson is a leading experimental particle physicist and is head of the hi...

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Simon Schaffer. Simon Schaffer is not only a leading historian of science but also a grea...

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Sir Michael Atiyah. In an interview with Graham in November 2018, Sir Michael Atiyah desc...

Leading theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed gave Graham an inspiring interview about the mysterious harmony between pure mathematics and...