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Rebecca Goldin and Brian Nosek on Hard Truths in Math and Psychology
...career as a mathematician, I always felt like I needed to do something more than just pure math. I have something more to give the world or I want to...
Cori Bargmann on the Genetics of Transparent Worms, Supertasters and Cancer
...six time five divided by two. Strogatz: Wait a second, you did a nifty little math problem there. I want to make sure that I got that. I think I...
Cryptography Pioneer Seeks Secure Elections the Low-Tech Way
...answers. As a technologist, I’m exploring mathematical alternatives. Do you see election integrity as a problem to be solved, just like a math or computer science problem? Voting is a...
Tadashi Tokieda’s Special Kind of Magic
The mathematician Tadashi Tokieda and host Steven Strogatz explore what we can learn about the world from simple “toys” with remarkable physical or mathematical properties. The mathematician Tadashi Tokieda loves...
How Rational Math Catches Slippery Irrational Numbers
...numbers comprise the vast majority of real numbers, and some of them unlock math’s most important relationships. The area of a circle depends on \(\pi\), and the irrational number \(\mathcal{e}\)...
Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math
...how to mathematically model entanglement, and a related problem in pure mathematics called the Connes embedding conjecture. In the end, the results cascaded like dominoes. “The ideas all came from...
Janna Levin on Seeing and Hearing Black Holes
...interesting that black holes are small. Strogatz: The mathematician in you loves their simplicity, it sounds like. Levin: Absolutely. We can do these very stylized mathematical solutions around the black...
John Urschel: From NFL Player to Mathematician
...scientist or a mathematician. What word would you use to describe what you’re trying to become? Urschel: Yeah, mathematician. Strogatz: Simply mathematician. Urschel: Yeah, mathematician, of course. Strogatz: That’s the...
Corina Tarnita and the Deep Mathematics of Social Insects
...hear her on, on math, but she’s made this amazing transition from being an all-out high-power mathematician to now becoming an all-out high-power biologist. She goes to Africa, she’s mucking...