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Richard Elwes

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Richard Elwes is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Leeds, UK, where he has taught subjects including logic, graph theory, computational mathematics, and the history of mathematics. His PhD is in mathematical logic, and he has also published research on graph theory and in related areas. He is a presenter on the YouTube channel Numberphile, and is the author of six popular mathematics books, most recently Huge Numbers (Basic Books, April 2026).

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