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A mathematics podcast from ACMEScience featuring the best math stories from the world of mathsThemes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Math history/biographies • Equity, Black mathematicians, mentoring, math education • Mathematics in democracy: voting, gerrymandering • Research process: funding, peer review, citations, classification • Math in society: disease modeling, DNA topology, cities, AI • Communication, books, arts/gamesThis podcast shares stories that use mathematics as a lens on the wider world, mixing narrative history, interviews, and occasional live or panel-style discussions. Across the episodes, mathematics appears not only as a body of ideas but as a human activity shaped by institutions, culture, communication, and public life.
A recurring theme is “meta-mathematics”: how the field functions day to day, including the realities of research publication and peer review, how mathematical work is organized and found through classification and indexing, how citations evolve over time, and how funding and policy decisions affect what mathematics gets done. Alongside these are conversations about communicating math to broader audiences—through books, podcasts, live events, teaching resources, creative writing, theater, film, and even interactive fiction and games—highlighting the craft of explaining abstract ideas in accessible forms.
The show also frequently focuses on equity, representation, and community in mathematics and math education. Topics include the experiences of Black mathematicians and educators, mentoring networks and programs aimed at broadening participation in graduate education, and initiatives that center young Black women in mathematical learning. These episodes connect classroom practice and institutional structures with broader social and political contexts.
Many stories connect mathematics to civic and real-world applications, especially where quantitative methods intersect with democracy and justice, such as voting systems, gerrymandering, and statistical analysis of policing. Other episodes explore applied and interdisciplinary mathematics in areas like epidemiology and infectious disease, cancer research and immunotherapy modeling, networks and “small-world” phenomena, and biological topology in DNA. Historical profiles of mathematicians and scientific disputes also appear, emphasizing the people, conflicts, and contingencies behind familiar narratives.
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Relatively Prime Seminar: Funding2025-Mar-25 66 minutes |
Carry the Two: Mathematics & Voting2024-Oct-30 58 minutes |
#BlackInMathWeek2020-Nov-09 35 minutes |
Black Girl Mathgic2020-Nov-01 36 minutes |
The Somervilles2020-Mar-31 26 minutes |
3 Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Banneker2020-Feb-29 10 minutes |
Truthiness2020-Feb-15 44 minutes |
2019 Year End Review2019-Dec-31 32 minutes |
Authors2019-Nov-01 26 minutes |
Citation Aging2019-Oct-01 19 minutes |
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A Beauty Cold and Austere 2019-Aug-31 27 minutes |
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2019-Jul-31 60 minutes |
Mathematical Objects2019-Jun-29 46 minutes |
EDGE2019-May-01 16 minutes |
Mathematically Gifted & Black2019-Mar-31 31 minutes |
3 2 1…Action2019-Feb-28 49 minutes |
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Jem’s Gems 2019-Jan-31 17 minutes |
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A Year (1811) In Review 2018-Dec-31 17 minutes |
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All the Math Podcasts-Bonus 2018-Dec-20 40 minutes |
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Cycle of Mathematics: Around 20 Papers 2018-Nov-30 14 minutes |
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Cycle of Mathematics: Orange Volumes on a Shelf (On the Internet) 2018-Oct-31 25 minutes |
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Cycle of Mathematics: Verify, Revise, Repeat 2018-Oct-01 17 minutes |
Cycle of Mathematics: The Six Handshakes2018-Aug-31 27 minutes |
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The Big Internet Math Off (Updated) 2018-Jul-25 42 minutes |
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Math Off 4: Checkers 2018-Jul-24 63 minutes |
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Math Off 3: Gerrymandering 2018-Jul-19 9 minutes |
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Math Off Round 2: Quaternions 2018-Jul-12 12 minutes |
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Math Off Round 1: Why Your Friends Have More Friends than You Do 2018-Jul-02 8 minutes |
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Girls Talk Math 2018-May-31 23 minutes |
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The Right Bucket 2018-May-01 20 minutes |
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Diegetic Plots: Chapter 3 2018-Mar-31 11 minutes |
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Tick & Lice & Relapsing & Fevers 2018-Feb-28 18 minutes |
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Science Sparring Society 2018-Jan-31 26 minutes |
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Formulaic Perfection 2017-Dec-22 33 minutes |
Cold and Flu2017-Nov-30 15 minutes |
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Knotty Helix 2017-Oct-31 19 minutes |
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Their Favorite Theorem 2017-Sep-29 33 minutes |
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Re District 2017-Aug-31 44 minutes |
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All The Gerrys Mandered(Encore) 2017-Aug-31 23 minutes |
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Outside the Equation 2017-Jul-27 49 minutes |
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Talking the Talk – Mathematics Communication 2017-Jun-29 35 minutes |
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You Have the Right 2017-May-26 19 minutes |
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Steiner Biopsy 2017-Apr-29 33 minutes |
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#TryPod – The Other Half 2017-Mar-24 40 minutes |
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Origins LIVE! 2017-Feb-16 52 minutes |
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On the Hill 2017-Jan-16 27 minutes |
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Lottery Daze 2016-Dec-21 30 minutes |
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Diegetic Plots: Chapter 2 2016-Feb-24 51 minutes |
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f(θ)=1-sin(θ) 2016-Feb-17 63 minutes |
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Principia Metropolica 2016-Feb-11 71 minutes |
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Other Duties as Assigned 2016-Feb-04 57 minutes |
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Diegetic Plots: Chapter 1 2016-Jan-28 76 minutes |
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Mathematistan 2016-Jan-20 56 minutes |
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Your Daily Recommended Math 2016-Jan-13 53 minutes |
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The Lexicon 2016-Jan-03 74 minutes |
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1+1=2 2012-Oct-08 62 minutes |
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0,1,2,3… 2012-Oct-05 76 minutes |
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Erdos 2012-Sep-23 62 minutes |
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The Score 2012-Sep-22 66 minutes |
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The Shape of Things 2012-Sep-21 65 minutes |
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The Unexpected 2012-Sep-19 58 minutes |
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The Toolbox 2012-Sep-18 58 minutes |
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Chinook 2012-Sep-17 62 minutes |