34: An Interview with Mathbot.com's JW Weatherman

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

50 min listen

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

53 min listen

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

42 min listen

15: Consciousness: What does it mean to be a good person? What does it mean to make a mistake? These are questions which we are not going to attempt to answer, but they are essential to the topic of study of today’s episode: consciousness. Conscious is the nebulous... by Breaking Math Podcast

60 min listen

Minisode 0.6: Four Problems: Jonathan and Gabriel discuss four challenging problems. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/breakingmathpodcast/support by Breaking Math Podcast

26 min listen

Minisode 0.4: Comin' Up Next: Jonathan and Gabriel talk about the next four episodes coming down the pike, including Humanity 2.0, which debuts Tuesday, April 2nd 2017. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app... by Breaking Math Podcast

16 min listen

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

44 min listen

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

49 min listen

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

53 min listen

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

52 min listen

Minisode 0.1: Hypercubes and Other Stranger Things: We are proud to announce that we have recorded our very first minisode! In addition, we are introducing a new blog which can be found at www.breakingmathpodcast.com/blog.html --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a... by Breaking Math Podcast

25 min listen

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

65 min listen

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

52 min listen

Minisode 0.2: What's Up, Bangalore?: Jonathan and Gabriel discuss everything Bangalore, evolutionary algorithmic, and more! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast:... by Breaking Math Podcast

29 min listen

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

58 min listen

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

48 min listen

BFNB2: Thought for Food (Discussion about Learning): Sponsored by www.brilliant.org/breakingmath, where you can take courses in calculus, computer science, chemistry, and other STEM subjects. All online; all at your own pace; and accessible anywhere with an internet connection, including your... by Breaking Math Podcast

72 min listen

23: Don't Touch My Circles! (Geometry): In the study of mathematics, there are many abstractions that we deal with. For example, we deal with the notion of a real number with infinitesimal granularity and infinite range, even though we have no evidence for this existing in nature besides... by Breaking Math Podcast

55 min listen

35: Please Be Discrete (Discrete Math): Centuries ago, there began something of a curiosity between mathematicians that didn't really amount to much but some interesting thoughts and cool mathematical theorems. This form of math had to do with strictly integer quantities; theorems about... by Breaking Math Podcast

39 min listen

Minisode 0.5: ___forNon___: Jonathan and Gabriel discuss ___forNon___ (blank for non-blank); a podcasting collective they've recently joined. Check out more at blankfornonblank.com. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.... by Breaking Math Podcast

15 min listen

Minisode 0.3: Lights, Camera, Action!: Jonathan and Gabriel discuss their recent news debut! You can find what they're talking about at news.unm.edu --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast:... by Breaking Math Podcast

20 min listen

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

49 min listen

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

59 min listen

22: Incomplet (Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid: Chapter IV Discussion): Gödel, Escher, Bach is a book about everything from formal logic to the intricacies underlying the mechanisms of reasoning. For that reason, we've decided to make a tribute episode; specifically, about episode IV. There is a Sanskrit word "maya" which... by Breaking Math Podcast

59 min listen

43: Interview II with Author Ben Orlin (Change is the Only Constant: the Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World): Ben Orlin has been a guest on the show before. He got famous with a blog called 'Math With Bad Drawings", which is what it says on the tin: he teaches mathematics using his humble drawing skills. His last book was a smorgasbord of different... by Breaking Math Podcast

43 min listen

31: Into the Abyss (Part Two; Black Holes): Black holes are objects that seem exotic to us because they have properties that boggle our comparatively mild-mannered minds. These are objects that light cannot escape from, yet glow with the energy they have captured until they evaporate out all of... by Breaking Math Podcast

58 min listen

25: Pandemic Panic (Epidemiology): The spectre of disease causes untold mayhem, anguish, and desolation. The extent to which this spectre has yielded its power, however, has been massively curtailed in the past century. To understand how this has been accomplished, we must understand... by Breaking Math Podcast

47 min listen

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

65 min listen

32: Gaze into the Abyss (Part Three; Black Holes): A lot of the information in this episode of Breaking Math depends on episodes 30 and 31 entitled "The Abyss" and "Into the Abyss" respectively. If you have not listened to those episodes, then we'd highly recommend going back and listening to those.... by Breaking Math Podcast

78 min listen

32X: Black Hole Heist (Comedy Sketch): The hosts of Breaking Math had too much time on their hands. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/breakingmathpodcast/support by Breaking Math Podcast

12 min listen

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34: An Interview with Mathbot.com's JW Weatherman

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