Twitter: @niveknosdunk • @evelynjlamb
Site: kpknudson.com/my-favorite-theorem
92 episodes
2017 to present
Average episode: 29 minutes
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Categories: Interview-Style • Math • Two Hosts
Podcaster's summary: Join us as we spend each episode talking with a mathematical professional about their favorite result. And since the best things in life come in pairs, find out what our guest thinks pairs best with their theorem.
| Episodes |
| 2024-Apr-03 • 34 minutes Episode 91 - Karen Saxe In which circles maximize area. |
| 2024-Jan-23 • 34 minutes Episode 90 - Corrine Yap In which we really try to avoid triangles. |
| 2023-Nov-12 • 35 minutes Episode 89 - Allison Henrich In which we ride a rollercoaster to Unknotting Land |
| 2023-Oct-09 • 26 minutes Episode 88 - Tom Edgar In which we add up the first n positive integers over and over again |
| 2023-Sep-07 • 24 minutes Episode 87 - Tatiana Toro In which our guest tries to walk the shortest path, always. |
| 2023-Jul-20 • 41 minutes Episode 86 - Sarah Hart In which Ishmael ponders the cycloid |
| 2023-Jun-02 • 31 minutes Episode 85 - Matthew Kahle In which we let the ocean in |
| 2023-May-02 • 50 minutes Episode 84 - The Students of TCU In which nine more emerging mathematicians have some favorite theorems |
| 2023-Feb-16 • 27 minutes Episode 83 - Cihan Bahran In which matrices die. |
| 2022-Dec-30 • 29 minutes Episode 82 - Juliette Bruce In which we embed curves canonically |
| 2022-Nov-26 • 33 minutes Episode 81 - Christopher Danielson In which there are as many sides as there are vertices |
| 2022-Oct-21 • 34 minutes Episode 80 - Kimberly Ayers In which orbits of all orders might exist. |
| 2022-Sep-15 • 35 minutes Episode 79 - Philip Ording In which rigid motions determine geometries and sculpture makes an appearance |
| 2022-Aug-11 • 28 minutes Episode 78 - Daina Taimina In which we look at things from a different perspective |
| 2022-Jul-13 • 26 minutes Episode 77 - Tien Chih In which we learn that all cows are the same color. |
| 2022-Jun-09 • 59 minutes Episode 76 - Math Students of CSULA In which nine emerging mathematicians have some favorite theorems |
| 2022-Mar-17 • 31 minutes Episode 75 - Dave Kung In which we turn a pea into the sun |
| 2022-Feb-11 • 43 minutes Episode 74 - Priyam Patel In which fixed points lead to isometries of hyperbolic space |
| 2022-Jan-13 • 42 minutes Episode 73 - Courtney Gibbons In which there are three favorite theorems, grouped together. |
| 2021-Dec-10 • 23 minutes Episode 72 - Kameryn Williams In which Gödel's lesser-known hits get some love |
| 2021-Nov-11 • 40 minutes Episode 71 - Emily Howard In which we go around a donut many times |
| 2021-Sep-22 • 40 minutes Episode 70 - Joel David Hamkins In which there is always a winning strategy. |
| 2021-Aug-14 • 36 minutes Episode 69 - Ranthony Edmonds In which we focus on the fundamentals. |
| 2021-Jul-08 • 27 minutes Episode 68 - Rekha Thomas In which the best low-rank approximation to a matrix appears |
| 2021-Jun-10 • 33 minutes Episode 67 - Liz Munch In which you can't flow more than you can cut. |
| 2021-May-15 • 37 minutes Episode 66 - Érika Roldán In which things get shuffled |
| 2021-Apr-08 • 29 minutes Episode 65 - Howard Masur In which angles get preserved. |
| 2021-Mar-11 • 49 minutes Episode 64 - Pamela Harris and Aris Winger In which two guests are better than one |
| 2021-Feb-11 • 51 minutes Episode 63 - Lily Khadjavi In which there are many theorems, arranged and classified. |
| 2021-Jan-15 • 32 minutes Episode 62 - Tai-Danae Bradley In which the real fundamental theorem of linear algebra arrives. |
| 2020-Dec-10 • 22 minutes Episode 61 - Yoon Ha Lee In which we walk down the diagonal again. |
| 2020-Nov-12 • 41 minutes Episode 60 - Michael Barany In which distributions take center stage |
| 2020-Oct-08 • 27 minutes Episode 59 - Daniel Litt In which infinitely many primes show up (if they can). |
| 2020-Sep-10 • 25 minutes Episode 58 - Susan D'Agostino In which we aren't quite sure where we're standing |
| 2020-Aug-13 • 33 minutes Episode 57 - Annalisa Crannell In which we see triangles from multiple perspectives. |
| 2020-Jul-09 • 35 minutes Episode 56 - Belin Tsinnajinnie In which no rational systems exist. |
| 2020-Jun-11 • 25 minutes Episode 55 - Rebecca Garcia In which things are dense and small all at once. |
| 2020-May-14 • 33 minutes Episode 54 - Steve Strogatz In which Cauchy and Duchamp figure prominently. |
| 2020-Apr-09 • 29 minutes Episode 53 - Ruthi Hortsch In which rationality is finite. |
| 2020-Mar-12 • 27 minutes Episode 52 - Ben Orlin In which things get bad, but only in the limit. |
| 2020-Feb-13 • 29 minutes Episode 51 - Carina Curto In which positive entries lead to positive eigenvalues and positive eigenvectors |
| 2020-Jan-09 • 35 minutes Episode 50 - aBa In which we learn a mathematician's origin story. |
| 2019-Dec-12 • 31 minutes Episode 49 - Edmund Harriss In which we go around a loop but only turn 270 degrees. |
| 2019-Nov-14 • 23 minutes Episode 48 - Sophie Carr In which the good Reverend Bayes gets his due. |
| 2019-Oct-10 • 32 minutes Episode 47 - Judy Walker In which errors are made and then corrected. |
| 2019-Sep-12 • 31 minutes Episode 46 - Adriana Salerno In which we move on a diagonal. |
| 2019-Aug-08 • 36 minutes Episode 45 - Your Flash Favorite Theorems In which we storm the Joint Mathematics Meetings in search of our listeners' favorite theorems. |
| 2019-Jul-11 • 29 minutes Episode 44 - James Propp In which things that don't change are constant. |
| 2019-Jun-13 • 29 minutes Episode 43 - Matilde Lalin In which Triangle Man meets Elliptic Curve Man |
| 2019-May-09 • 25 minutes Episode 42 - Moon Duchin In which we look across Gromov's gap. |
| 2019-Apr-25 • 30 minutes Episode 41 - Suresh Venkatasubramanian In which things get complex but are bounded below. |
| 2019-Apr-11 • 28 minutes Episode 40 - Ursula Whitcher In which we gaze into the mirror and it reflects some theorems back. |
| 2019-Mar-28 • 29 minutes Episode 39 - Fawn Nguyen In which we learn at least five reasons to dig the Pythagorean Theorem. |
| 2019-Mar-14 • 24 minutes Episode 38 - Robert Ghrist In which we exponentiate, differentiate, and shift all at once. |
| 2019-Feb-28 • 25 minutes Episode 37 - Cynthia Flores In which we're not really sure what we're talking about. |
| 2019-Feb-14 • 30 minutes Episode 36 - Nikita Nikolaev & Beatriz Navarro Lameda In which love wins the day. |
| 2019-Jan-24 • 22 minutes Episode 35 - Nira Chamberlain In which small changes lead to big differences, possibly even poisoning. |
| 2019-Jan-10 • 24 minutes Episode 34 - Skip Garibaldi In which we really can't name much at all. |
| 2018-Dec-27 • 29 minutes Episode 33 - Michele Audin In which mathematics meets literature and our guest's favorite theorem is the theme of a novel. |
| 2018-Dec-13 • 25 minutes Episode 32 - Anil Venkatesh In which voting power finds application in video game design |
| 2018-Nov-29 • 18 minutes Episode 31 - Yen Duong In which forming a committee is fun! |
| 2018-Nov-08 • 25 minutes Episode 30 - Katie Steckles In which Evelyn vows to conquer Mount H. |
| 2018-Oct-25 • 20 minutes Episode 29 - Mike Lawler In which we definitely do *not* give financial advice. |
| 2018-Oct-11 • 20 minutes Episode 28 - Chawne Kimber In which we embed lattice-ordered groups in things and also make some quilts. |
| 2018-Sep-27 • 24 minutes Episode 27 - James Tanton In which we wander through triangular rooms on the sphere. |
| 2018-Sep-13 • 27 minutes Episode 26 - Erika Camacho In which rods and cones fight to the death. |
| 2018-Aug-23 • 24 minutes Episode 25 - Holly Krieger In which our guest loves the theorem but the mathematician not so much. |
| 2018-Aug-09 • 20 minutes Episode 24 - Vidit Nanda In which we press a calculator's square root key repeatedly. |
| 2018-Jul-26 • 32 minutes Episode 23 - Ingrid Daubechies In which we learn about hairdryers and plastic wrap and graph embeddings |
| 2018-Jul-12 • 30 minutes Episode 22 - Ken Ribet In which the number theorist does not choose the theorem you'd expect. |
| 2018-Jun-28 • 23 minutes Episode 21 - Jana Rodriguez Hertz In which we toss around some horseshoes. |
| 2018-Jun-14 • 22 minutes Episode 20 - Francis Su In which points get fixed, though we know not which. |
| 2018-May-24 • 32 minutes Episode 19 - Emily Riehl In which we prove the distributive law for natural numbers using a sledgehammer. |
| 2018-May-10 • 24 minutes Episode 18 - John Urschel In which we sparsify. |
| 2018-Apr-26 • 27 minutes Episode 17 - Nalini Joshi In which we learn how to avoid walking into a volcano. |
| 2018-Apr-12 • 33 minutes Episode 16 - Jayadev Athreya In which we can't see the trees for the forest. |
| 2018-Mar-22 • 32 minutes Episode 15 - Federico Ardila In which matroids get defined and a Cuban musician gives us a math lesson. |
| 2018-Mar-08 • 23 minutes Episode 14 - Laura Taalman In which we get tangled up in knots and try to determine how long it will take to get untangled. |
| 2018-Feb-22 • 19 minutes Episode 13 - Patrick Honner In which midpoints lead to parallelograms... |
| 2018-Feb-08 • 15 minutes Episode 12 - Candice Price In which we get tangled up, rationally. |
| 2018-Jan-25 • 17 minutes Episode 11 - Jeanne Nielsen Clelland In which we learn that curvature and the Euler characteristic are intimately related. |
| 2018-Jan-11 • 19 minutes Episode 10 - Mohamed Omar In which we let finite groups act and see what happens. |
| 2017-Dec-28 • 18 minutes Episode 9 - Ami Radunskaya In which we learn how functions get around. |
| 2017-Dec-07 • 14 minutes Episode 8 - Justin Curry In which we talk about Platonic solids. |
| 2017-Nov-16 • 24 minutes Episode 7 - Henry Fowler Pythagoras got his name on it, but the Navajo knew the theorem, too. |
| 2017-Oct-26 • 27 minutes Episode 6 - Eriko Hironaka In which polynomial periodicity of the first Betti numbers of covers of quasiprojective varieties is discussed. |
| 2017-Oct-05 • 13 minutes Episode 5 - Dusa McDuff Just how much can you squeeze a ball? Find out in this episode. |
| 2017-Sep-14 • 18 minutes Episode 4 - Jordan Ellenberg Fermat is most famous for his "Last Theorem" but our guest prefers a different result. |
| 2017-Aug-24 • 18 minutes Episode 3 - Emille Davie Lawrence How many holes would you like in your donut? |
| 2017-Aug-03 • 24 minutes Episode 2 - Dave Richeson You know the formula for the area of a circle, but do you know who proved it? |
| 2017-Jul-26 • 23 minutes Episode 1 - Amie Wilkinson In which University of Chicago mathematician Amie Wilkinson tells us about her favorite theorem. |
| 2017-Jul-21 • 14 minutes Episode 0 - Your Hosts' Favorite Theorems Our zeroth episode, setting the tone and introducing the format. |