Featuring James Munro. See https://brilliant.org/numberphile for Brilliant and 20% off their premium service & 30-day trial (episode sponsor) More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Dragons, Dice and Evil Numbers. James Munro is Admissions and Outreach Coordinator for Maths at Oxford University. More about outreach at Oxford can be found at https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/outreach James Munro: http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/munro/ Correction: the optimal number for the original 20-sided die problem is actually 35 (this is slightly better than 34). James has been fed to the dragon as punishment for this error. More Pi videos: https://bit.ly/PiNumberphile The Most Evil Number on Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk_Q9y_LNzg Dragon Curve on Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCyC-K_PnRY And another Dragon Curve on Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v678Em6qyzk Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/numberphile Numberphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://www.janestreet.com/ We're also supported by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (formerly MSRI): http://bit.ly/MSRINumberphile Our thanks also to the Simons Foundation: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/ NUMBERPHILE Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Subscribe: http://bit.ly/Numberphile_Sub Videos by Brady Haran Animation and editing by Pete McPartlan Numberphile T-Shirts and Merch: null Brady's videos subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/BradyHaran/ Brady's latest videos across all channels: http://www.bradyharanblog.com/ Sign up for (occasional) emails: http://eepurl.com/YdjL9