Numberphile's breakout videos
Every recent long-form upload, scored against the channel's own median. These are the videos the audience pushed far past normal. Updated weekly.
No More Heroes - Terence Tao Talks to Numberphile About AI
SOLVED: Navier-Stokes cracked by AI - Numberphile6.0×3
The Buckmaster Interview (Navier-Stokes) - Numberphile2.5×4
A New Math Meme - Numberphile2.4×5
The Biggest Gaps Between Primes - Numberphile2.3×6
What now for Mathematics (with 3Blue1Brown) - Numberphile2.3×7
100000001 is divisible by 17 - NumberphileWhat's working for Numberphile right now
The channel's typical long-form video gets about 179K views. “No More Heroes - Terence Tao Talks to Numberphile About AI” reached 1.1M, roughly 6.4 times that. Among this channel's outliers, the most common title formats are listicle (1). When one idea outperforms a channel's baseline this much, the audience is telling you the topic and packaging resonated, which makes it worth studying before you plan your next video.
How these scores work
We take the channel's latest long-form uploads (Shorts excluded), find the median view count, and divide each video's views by it. A 5× score means five times the channel's normal performance. Data comes from the public YouTube Data API and refreshes weekly. Last updated November 5, 2026.
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