8: Evolution and Engineering (Genetic Algorithms)

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4: Digital Evolution (Digital Computing): We live in an era of unprecedented change, and the tip of the spear of this era of change is currently the digital revolution. In fact, in the last decade we’ve gone from an analog to a digitally dominated society, and the amount of information has... by Breaking Math Podcast

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3: TMI (Information Theory): “ABABABABABABABAB”. How much information was that? You may say “sixteen letters worth”, but is that the true answer? You could describe what you just read as “AB 8 times”, and save a bunch of characters, and yet have the same information. But what is... by Breaking Math Podcast

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6: Word (Linguistics): Mathematics has a lot in common with language. Both have been used since the dawn of time to shape and define our world, both have sets of rules which one must master before bending, both are natural consequences of the way humans are raised, and both... by Breaking Math Podcast

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2: Wreaking Chaos (Chaos Theory): The void has always intrigued mankind; the concept of no concept defies the laws of human reasoning to such a degree that we have no choice but to pursue it. But ancient Assyrian, Norse, Judeo-Christian creation stories, and even our own scientific... by Breaking Math Podcast

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21: Einstein's Biggest Idea (General Relativity): Some see the world of thought divided into two types of ideas: evolutionary and revolutionary ideas. However, the truth can be more nuanced than that; evolutionary ideas can spur revolutions, and revolutionary ideas may be necessary to create... by Breaking Math Podcast

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45: Climate Denialism and Cranky Uncles (Interview with John Cook of Skeptical Science): Climate change is an issue that has become frighteningly more relevant in recent years, and because of special interests, the field has become muddied with climate change deniers who use dishonest tactics to try to get their message across. The... by Breaking Math Podcast

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7: QED? Prove it. (Proofs): Proofs are sometimes seen as an exercise in tedium, other times as a pure form of beauty, and often as both. But from time immemorial, people have been using mathematics to demonstrate new theorems, and advance the state of the art of mathematics.... by Breaking Math Podcast

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14: Artificial Thought (Neural Networks): Go to www.brilliant.org/breakingmathpodcast to learn neural networks, everyday physics, computer science fundamentals, the joy of problem solving, and many related topics in science, technology, engineering, and math. Mathematics takes inspiration... by Breaking Math Podcast

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13: Math and Prison Riots (Interview with Frank Salas): Frank Salas is an statistical exception, but far from an irreplicable result. Busted on the streets of Albuquerque for selling crack cocaine at 17, an age where many of us are busy honing the skills that we've chosen to master, and promply... by Breaking Math Podcast

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10: Cryptomath (Cryptography): Language and communication is a huge part of what it means to be a person, and a large part of this importance is the ability to direct the flow of that information; this is a practice known as cryptography. There are as many ways to encrypt data as... by Breaking Math Podcast

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9: Humanity 2.0 (Transhumanism): Humanity, since its inception, has been nebulously defined. Every technological advancement has changed what it means to be a person, and every person has changed what it means to advance. In this same vein, there is a concept called “transhumanism”,... by Breaking Math Podcast

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8: Evolution and Engineering (Genetic Algorithms): Computation is a nascent science, and as such, looks towards the other sciences for inspiration. Whether it be physics, as in simulated annealing, or, as now is popular, biology, as in neural networks, computer science has shown repeatedly that it can... by Breaking Math Podcast

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1: Forbidden Formulas (Elitism in Math): From Pythagoras to Einstein, from the banks of the Nile to the streamlined curves of the Large Hadron Collider, math has shown itself again and again to be fundamental to the way that humans interact with the world. Then why is math such a pain for so... by Breaking Math Podcast

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5: Language of the Universe (Relationship Between Physics and Math): 1948. A flash, followed by an explosion. Made possible by months of mathematical computation, the splitting of the atom was hailed as a triumph of both science and mathematics. Mathematics is seen by many as a way of quantifying experiments. But is... by Breaking Math Podcast

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26: Infinity Shades of Grey (Paradox): A paradox is characterized either by a logical problem that does not have a single dominant expert solution, or by a set of logical steps that seem to lead somehow from sanity to insanity. This happens when a problem is either ill-defined, or... by Breaking Math Podcast

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12: Math Factory (Algorithms): In a universe where everything is representable by information, what does it mean to interact with that world? When you follow a series of steps to accomplish a goal, what you're doing is taking part in a mathematical tradition as old as math itself:... by Breaking Math Podcast

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11: A Culture of Hacking (Hacker Culture): The culture of mathematics is a strange topic. It is almost as important to the history of mathematics as the theorems that have come from it, yet it is rarely commented upon, and it is almost never taught in schools. One form of mathematical inquiry... by Breaking Math Podcast

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41: Reality Is More Than Complex (Group Theory and Physics): Children who are being taught mathematics often balk at the idea of negative numbers, thinking them to be fictional entities, and often only learn later that they are useful for expressing opposite extremes of things, such as considering a debt an... by Breaking Math Podcast

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17: Navier Stoked (Vector Calculus and Navier-Stokes Equations): From our first breath of the day to brushing our teeth to washing our faces to our first sip of coffee, and even in the waters of the rivers we have built cities upon since antiquity, we find ourselves surrounded by fluids. Fluids, in this context,... by Breaking Math Podcast

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19: Tune of the Hickory Stick (Beginning to Intermediate Math Education): The art of mathematics has proven, over the millennia, to be a practical as well as beautiful pursuit. This has required us to use results from math in our daily lives, and there's one thing that has always been true of humanity: we like to do things... by Breaking Math Podcast

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28: Bell's Infamous Theorem (Bell's Theorem): The history of physics as a natural science is filled with examples of when an experiment will demonstrate something or another, but what is often forgotten is the fact that the experiment had to be thought up in the first place by someone who was... by Breaking Math Podcast

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24: Language and Entropy (Information Theory in Language): Information theory was founded in 1948 by Claude Shannon, and is a way of both qualitatively and quantitatively describing the limits and processes involved in communication. Roughly speaking, when two entities communicate, they have a message, a... by Breaking Math Podcast

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