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Podcast Profile: The 3b1b podcast

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5 episodes
2021
Median: 84 minutes
Collection: Physics, Math, and Astronomy

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This podcast features interview-style conversations about mathematics and the ecosystem around learning and communicating it. Hosted by Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown), it brings together research mathematicians, science communicators, and education entrepreneurs to discuss how mathematical ideas are developed, taught, and shared with broader audiences.

Across the conversations, listeners can expect a mix of personal math journeys and technical or conceptual touchpoints, including applied areas like nonlinear dynamics and chaos, geometric and biological examples, and more abstract frameworks such as category theory, especially where mathematics intersects with other domains like language models. The discussions also spend substantial time on outreach and pedagogy: what fosters genuine curiosity, how storytelling and authenticity shape explainer content, and how creating lessons or videos can function as a way to learn.

Education reform and tools for learning recur as themes, with attention to tutoring platforms, alternative schooling models, and the practical realities of scaling instruction. Along the way, guests reflect on academic pathways, the culture of math communities, historical narratives in mathematics, and the challenges of clear exposition—why certain proofs or problems feel compelling, and how to make sophisticated ideas accessible without oversimplifying them.

Episodes:

5 - Tai-Danae Bradley: Where math meets language 2021-Sep-25 96 minutes

4 - Dianna Cowern: Dead or Alive 2021-Aug-31 84 minutes

3 - Steven Strogatz: In and out of love with math 2021-Aug-07 114 minutes

2 - Sal Khan: Beyond Khan Academy 2021-Jul-22 44 minutes

1 - Alex Kontorovich: Improving math 2021-Jul-09 84 minutes