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To mark Halloween we're discussing vampire numbers.

Professor Roger Bowley says poetry and numbers are more closely linked than you may think, citing Shakespeare's 14-line sonnets and iambic pentameter as examples.

666 (and sometimes 616) is the notorious Number of the Beast... what's all that about? And what has roulette got to do with it!? Pete Watts shares all sorts ...

7 is an example of a happy number, as opposed to sad numbers. What makes a number happy? Dr Ria Symonds is from the University of Nottingham. Website: http:/...

6174 is also known as Kaprekar's Constant.

This video features University of Nottingham physics professor Roger Bowley, who is also featured on our Sixty Symbols channel at http://www.youtube.com/sixtysymbols

Mathematician Katie Steckles in why she likes 27 and why it makes a special appearance in Pi.

Professor Laurence Eaves on Pythagorean Primes - and why 5, 13 and 137 are three of his favourites!? Fine structure constant on sixtysymbols at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlSLIW0gZtk

Why five-sided figures pose a problem from Professor John Hunton - and a bit about the importance of Penrose Tiling. Professor Hunton works at the University...

What other amazing properties of Wau can you think of? Leave them in the comments.

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228385.900-virtual-robot-links-body-to-numbers-just-like-humans.html...

We discuss the number 16 - a perfect square - and how sitting at table 16 led to something bigger for Matt Parker. In this video is Dr Ria Symonds from the U...