Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Mathematics in science and technology • AI and its implications • Physics and space exploration • Interdisciplinary approaches • The role of mathematics in society • Mathematical patterns and structures
Breaking Math Podcast explores a diverse range of topics at the intersection of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology. The podcast is co-hosted by Autumn Phaneuf, a specialist in industrial engineering and applied mathematics, and Gabriel Hesch, an electrical engineer. Through engaging dialogues, the hosts delve into mathematical concepts and their applications across various fields, often collaborating with experts and scientists to provide in-depth explorations.
The podcast covers a wide array of themes, consistently relating them back to core mathematical principles. Episodes delve into theoretical and practical aspects of subjects like quantum mechanics, AI, and chaos theory. There is a particular emphasis on understanding how mathematics influences both abstract thought and tangible realities. Other areas of focus include the ethical dimensions of AI, the philosophical questions surrounding consciousness and machine learning, and the evolving implications of mathematics in technologies such as cryptography and data visualization.
Beyond the technical aspects, the podcast frequently explores the influence of mathematics on societal issues, such as economic equity, energy distribution, and democratic processes. The hosts encourage listeners to consider how math can bridge disciplines, enhance public understanding, and foster a appreciation for complexity and creativity.
Amidst the discussions, the podcast often interjects historical insights and cultural elements, examining how mathematics intersects with art, literature, and even paranormal phenomena. With episodes oscillating between narratives of scientific discovery and discussions on the future of technology, Breaking Math seeks to create a platform where curiosity and critical thinking converge, enabling listeners to engage with complex mathematical ideas in an accessible manner.
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Episodes:
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The Future of Physics: Portals to a New Reality
2025-Oct-28
48 minutes
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AI vs Human Intelligence: The Emergent Mind
2025-Oct-25
50 minutes
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The Giant Leap
2025-Oct-21
56 minutes
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Dinosaurs with Rachel Ignotofsky
2025-Oct-14
30 minutes
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Charlatans with Quico Toro
2025-Oct-07
39 minutes
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Economica with Victoria Bateman
2025-Sep-30
64 minutes
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Blueprints with Marcus du Sautoy
2025-Sep-09
59 minutes
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Unequal with Eugenia Cheng
2025-Sep-05
46 minutes
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Breaking Math: When Math Meets a Technology Glitch
2025-Aug-28
4 minutes
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Hate the Game
2025-Aug-19
34 minutes
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Dots and Lines: Hidden Networks
2025-Aug-12
37 minutes
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Robin Hood Math
2025-Aug-05
32 minutes
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What are Swim Training Patterns?
2025-Jul-29
45 minutes
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AI Ethics: Algorithms Go To College
2025-Jul-22
11 minutes
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Random Shuffle Isn't Random At All
2025-Jul-08
8 minutes
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Algorithms & AI Simplified - The Not So Mathy Version
2025-Jul-01
9 minutes
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What is Cryptography?
2025-Jun-24
40 minutes
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We Live in a Radioactive World: What is Dosimetry?
2025-Jun-17
32 minutes
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What is Life?
2025-Jun-10
41 minutes
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Fire Science: What are Photoacoustic Measurements?
2025-Jun-03
49 minutes
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What is Time?
2025-Feb-26
71 minutes
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What is Measurement?
2025-Feb-18
7 minutes
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How Analytics Can Revolutionize Affordable Energy
2024-Nov-19
41 minutes
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What is Chaos Theory?
2024-Nov-12
13 minutes
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AI in the Lab: How GPT-4 is Changing Molecules and Models
2024-Nov-05
12 minutes
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The Fluid Dynamics of Sheep
2024-Oct-29
15 minutes
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The Discovery of the Largest Prime Number: M136279841
2024-Oct-22
8 minutes
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Exploring GFlowNets and AI-Driven Material Discovery for Carbon Capture
2024-Oct-22
10 minutes
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Victorian Era Spooky Scientists & Paranormal Activity
2024-Oct-15
23 minutes
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Is AI Conscious?
2024-Oct-08
33 minutes
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Molecular dynamics simulation with GFlowNets: machine learning the importance of energy estimators in computational chemistry and drug discovery
2024-Oct-01
28 minutes
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Do Plants Know Math?
2024-Sep-24
56 minutes
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Mapmatics: A Mathematician's Guide to Navigating the World with Maps with Paulina Rowinska
2024-Sep-17
57 minutes
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The Intentional Engineer (with Jeff Perry)
2024-Sep-10
55 minutes
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Math for English Majors with Ben Orlin
2024-Sep-03
58 minutes
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What is Data Visualization? From the Expert Behind PolicyViz
2024-Aug-27
53 minutes
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Love Triangle and Other Maths (with Matt Parker)
2024-Aug-20
59 minutes
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The Black Hole Heist
2024-Aug-16
12 minutes
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Black Holes: The Abyss Part 3
2024-Aug-13
77 minutes
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Black Holes: The Abyss Part 2
2024-Aug-06
56 minutes
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Black Holes: The Abyss Part 1
2024-Jul-30
52 minutes
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What are Journal Rankings? The basics: a minisode.
2024-Jul-23
12 minutes
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Why Machines Learn: The Math Behind AI
2024-Jul-16
40 minutes
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The Intersection of Mathematics and Democracy
2024-Jul-09
62 minutes
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Math Lounge: Celebrating 101 Episodes
2024-Jul-02
47 minutes
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Minisode: Absolutely Nothing
2024-Jun-18
19 minutes
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Can We Survive on Mars? Hot Tips with Zach Weinersmith (Part 2)
2024-May-28
34 minutes
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Can We Survive on Mars? Hot Tips with Zach Weinersmith
2024-May-21
32 minutes
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What's the Use? Interview with Professor Ian Stewart
2024-May-14
44 minutes
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Bayes' Theorem Explains It All: An Interview with Tom Chivers
2024-May-07
49 minutes
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94. Interview with Steve Nadis, Co-author of 'Gravity of Math'
2024-Apr-30
52 minutes
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93. The 10,000 Year Problem (feat. David Gibson of Ray Kitty Creation Workship)
2024-Apr-23
34 minutes
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92. The Mathematical Heart of Games Explored with Prof. du Sautoy
2024-Apr-16
74 minutes
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91. Brain Organelles, AI, and Other Scary Science - An Interview with GT (Part 2)
2024-Apr-04
31 minutes
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90. LEAN Theorem Provers used to model Physics and Chemistry
2024-Mar-16
47 minutes
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89. Brain Organelles, AI, and the Other Scary Science - An Interview with GT (Part I)
2024-Mar-05
30 minutes
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88. Can OpenAi's SORA learn and model real-world physics? (Part 1 of n)
2024-Feb-27
34 minutes
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87. OpenAi SORA, Physics-Informed ML, and a.i. Fraud- Oh My!
2024-Feb-20
36 minutes
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86. Math, Music, and Artificial Intelligence - Levi McClain Interview (Final Part)
2024-Feb-18
28 minutes
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85. Math, Music, Neuroscience, and Fear - an Interview with Musician Levi McClain
2024-Feb-13
33 minutes
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84. (Part 2) Intelligence in Nature v. Machine Learning - an Interview with Brit Cruise
2024-Feb-06
45 minutes
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83. Intelligence in Nature v. Machine Learning-An Interview with Brit Cruise - Part 1 of 2
2024-Jan-30
36 minutes
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82. A.I. and Materials Discovery - an Interview with Taylor Sparks
2024-Jan-21
17 minutes
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In Memory of Sofia Baca, Cofounder and cohost of Breaking Math
2024-Jan-11
48 minutes
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81: Correct. Now Try Again (Multiple Approaches to the Same Problem)
2023-Jul-24
37 minutes
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80: Physical Dimension (Dimensional Analysis)
2023-Jun-26
35 minutes
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79: 1 2 3 (Counting)
2023-Jun-08
47 minutes
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78: Perpetual Notion (Entropy and Thermodynamics)
2023-May-09
31 minutes
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77: An Interview with Christopher Roblesz of MathNMore
2023-Feb-28
55 minutes
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76: Joule Pay for This! (Energy)
2023-Jan-15
66 minutes
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75: Existential Physics with Sabine Hossenfelder (Author Interview)
2022-Oct-13
41 minutes
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74: Lights, Camera, Action! (3D Computer Graphics: Part I)
2022-Jun-19
42 minutes
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73: Materialism: a Material Science Podcast Podcast Episode (Interview with Taylor Sparks)
2022-May-28
55 minutes
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72: The Lifestyles of the Mathematical and Famous (an Interview with Author Robert Black)
2022-May-15
50 minutes
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71: What's the Matter? An Interview with Chris Cogswell of the Mad Scientist Podcast (Material Science)
2022-Apr-12
55 minutes
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70.1: Episode 70.1 of Breaking Math Podcast (Self-Reference)
2022-Mar-20
46 minutes
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70: This Episode Intentionally Left Blank
2022-Mar-19
46 minutes
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69: An Interview with Michael Brooks, Author of "The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization"
2022-Jan-23
62 minutes
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P12: O My God (Big O Notation)
2022-Jan-04
22 minutes
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68: LOL!!! SO RANDOM (Random Variables)
2021-Dec-23
34 minutes
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67: Wrath of Math (Mathematics Used Unwisely)
2021-Dec-09
23 minutes
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P11: Feeling Lucky? (Probability and Intuition)
2021-Nov-30
30 minutes
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66: Hayhoe, Let's Go! (An Interview With Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe)
2021-Nov-21
71 minutes
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P10: Chivalry is Dead (Knights and Knaves #1)
2021-Nov-14
18 minutes
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65: An Interview with Author Ian Stewart (Book About Everyday Math)
2021-Oct-24
44 minutes
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64: What Projection Is This? (Map Projections)
2021-Sep-29
47 minutes
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RR36: The Most Boring Episode Ever (Rerun: Math Games)
2021-Sep-19
49 minutes
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63: Broken Voting Systems (Voting Systems and Paradoxes)
2021-Sep-05
33 minutes
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62: The Atom Bomb of Information Operations (An Interview with John Fuisz of Veriphix)
2021-Aug-22
45 minutes
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61: Look at this Graph! (Graph Theory)
2021-Apr-25
29 minutes
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P9: Give or Take (Back-of-the-Envelope Estimates / Fermi Problems)
2021-Apr-19
31 minutes
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60: HAMILTON! [But Not the Musical] (Quaternions)
2021-Apr-03
29 minutes
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59: A Good Source of Fibers (Fiber Bundles)
2021-Mar-21
42 minutes
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58: Bringing Curvy Back (Gaussian Curvature)
2021-Mar-03
42 minutes
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P8: Tangent Tango (Morikawa's Recently Solved Problem)
2021-Feb-25
19 minutes
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P7: Root for Squares (Irrationality of the Square Root of Two)
2021-Feb-07
14 minutes
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57: You Said How Much?! (Measure Theory)
2021-Feb-01
30 minutes
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P6: How Many Angles in a Circle? (Curvature; Euclidean Geometry)
2021-Jan-28
28 minutes
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56: More Sheep than You Can Count (Transfinite Cardinal Numbers)
2021-Jan-24
34 minutes
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55: Order in the Court (Transfinite Ordinal Numbers)
2021-Jan-14
31 minutes
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54: Oodles (Large Numbers)
2020-Dec-21
27 minutes
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53: Big Brain Time (An Interview with Peter Zeidman from the UCL Institute of Neurology)
2020-Dec-11
43 minutes
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52: Round (Circles and Spheres)
2020-Dec-05
30 minutes
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P5: All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Fractional Base Proof)
2020-Nov-26
13 minutes
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51: Episode "-2,0,1" (Bases; Exotic Bases)
2020-Nov-15
34 minutes
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50: Episode "101" (Bases)
2020-Aug-31
54 minutes
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49: Thinking Machines II (Techniques in Artificial Intelligence)
2020-May-26
57 minutes
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48: Thinking Machines (Philosophical Basis of Artificial Intelligence)
2020-May-18
54 minutes
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P4: Go with the Flow (Conceptual Calculus: Related Rates of Change)
2020-Mar-10
36 minutes
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47: Blast to the Past (Retrocausality)
2020-Feb-29
29 minutes
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P3: Radiativeforcenado (Radiative Forcing)
2020-Feb-03
39 minutes
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46: Earth Irradiated (the Greenhouse Effect)
2020-Jan-20
41 minutes
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45: Climate Denialism and Cranky Uncles (Interview with John Cook of Skeptical Science)
2019-Dec-10
25 minutes
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44: Vestigial Math (Math That Is Not Used like It Used to Be)
2019-Nov-03
36 minutes
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P2: Walk the Dog (Calculus: Chain Rule)
2019-Oct-30
18 minutes
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43: Interview II with Author Ben Orlin (Change is the Only Constant: the Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World)
2019-Oct-23
42 minutes
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P1: Peano Addition
2019-Sep-29
37 minutes
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42: Maybe? (Probability and Statistics)
2019-Aug-15
32 minutes
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41: Reality Is More Than Complex (Group Theory and Physics)
2019-Jul-29
54 minutes
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39: Syntax Matters: Syntax... Matters? (Formal Grammar)
2019-May-29
33 minutes
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38: The Great Stratagem Heist (Game Theory: Iterated Elimination of Dominated Strategies)
2019-Apr-23
32 minutes
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37: The One Where They Parody Saw [audio fixed again] (Game Theory)
2019-Feb-25
39 minutes
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36: The Most Boring Episode Ever. (Math Games)
2018-Nov-23
46 minutes
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35: Please Be Discrete (Discrete Math)
2018-Nov-05
34 minutes
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34: An Interview with Mathbot.com's JW Weatherman
2018-Oct-20
39 minutes
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33: Interview with Math with Bad Drawings (Ben Orlin)
2018-Oct-03
40 minutes
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32X: Black Hole Heist (Comedy Sketch)
2018-Sep-23
12 minutes
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32: Gaze into the Abyss (Part Three; Black Holes)
2018-Sep-23
77 minutes
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31: Into the Abyss (Part Two; Black Holes)
2018-Aug-23
56 minutes
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30: The Abyss (Part One; Black Holes)
2018-Aug-02
51 minutes
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29: War
2018-Jul-14
34 minutes
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28: Bell's Infamous Theorem (Bell's Theorem)
2018-Jun-19
34 minutes
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27: Peer Pressure (Cellular Automata)
2018-May-14
51 minutes
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26: Infinity Shades of Grey (Paradox)
2018-Apr-26
48 minutes
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25: Pandemic Panic (Epidemiology)
2018-Apr-13
44 minutes
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24: Language and Entropy (Information Theory in Language)
2018-Mar-07
44 minutes
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23: Don't Touch My Circles! (Geometry)
2018-Jan-15
52 minutes
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22: Incomplet (Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid: Chapter IV Discussion)
2017-Dec-23
56 minutes
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21: Einstein's Biggest Idea (General Relativity)
2017-Dec-04
40 minutes
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20: Rational (Ratios)
2017-Nov-18
40 minutes
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19: Tune of the Hickory Stick (Beginning to Intermediate Math Education)
2017-Nov-07
39 minutes
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18: Frequency (Fourier and Related Analyses)
2017-Oct-11
44 minutes
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17: Navier Stoked (Vector Calculus and Navier-Stokes Equations)
2017-Oct-05
60 minutes
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BFNB2: Thought for Food (Discussion about Learning)
2017-Sep-19
71 minutes
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BFNB1: Food for Thought (Discussion about Learning)
2017-Sep-16
35 minutes
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Minisode 0.6: Four Problems
2017-Aug-18
26 minutes
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15: Consciousness
2017-Jul-30
60 minutes
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Minisode 0.5: ___forNon___
2017-Jul-20
14 minutes
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14: Artificial Thought (Neural Networks)
2017-Jul-11
65 minutes
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13: Math and Prison Riots (Interview with Frank Salas)
2017-Jun-27
49 minutes
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12: Math Factory (Algorithms)
2017-Jun-13
53 minutes
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11: A Culture of Hacking (Hacker Culture)
2017-May-31
62 minutes
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10: Cryptomath (Cryptography)
2017-May-16
76 minutes
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9: Humanity 2.0 (Transhumanism)
2017-May-02
52 minutes
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Minisode 0.4: Comin' Up Next
2017-May-01
16 minutes
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Minisode 0.3: Lights, Camera, Action!
2017-Apr-20
20 minutes
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8: Evolution and Engineering (Genetic Algorithms)
2017-Apr-18
57 minutes
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Minisode 0.2: What's Up, Bangalore?
2017-Apr-10
29 minutes
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7: QED? Prove it. (Proofs)
2017-Apr-04
44 minutes
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Minisode 0.1: Hypercubes and Other Stranger Things
2017-Apr-01
24 minutes
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6: Word (Linguistics)
2017-Mar-21
49 minutes
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5: Language of the Universe (Relationship Between Physics and Math)
2017-Mar-07
48 minutes
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4: Digital Evolution (Digital Computing)
2017-Feb-21
52 minutes
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3: TMI (Information Theory)
2017-Feb-07
48 minutes
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2: Wreaking Chaos (Chaos Theory)
2017-Feb-07
51 minutes
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1: Forbidden Formulas (Elitism in Math)
2017-Feb-07
59 minutes
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