43: Interview II with Author Ben Orlin (Change is the Only Constant: the Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

40 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

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

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

60 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

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

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

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

40 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

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

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

20: Rational (Ratios): From MC²’s statement of mass energy equivalence and Newton’s theory of gravitation to the sex ratio of bees and the golden ratio, our world is characterized by the ratios which can be found within it. In nature as well as in mathematics, there are... by Breaking Math Podcast

40 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

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

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

77 min listen

37: The One Where They Parody Saw [audio fixed again] (Game Theory): Hello listeners. You don't know me, but I know you. I want to play a game. In your ears are two earbuds. Connected to the earbuds are a podcast playing an episode about game theory. Hosting that podcast are two knuckleheads. And you're locked into... by Breaking Math Podcast

39 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

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

53 min listen

33: Interview with Math with Bad Drawings (Ben Orlin): An interview with Ben Orlin, author of the book 'Math with Bad Drawings,' as well as the blog of the same name. The blog can be found at www.mathwithbaddrawings.com. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.... by Breaking Math Podcast

41 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

18: Frequency (Fourier and Related Analyses): Duration and proximity are, as demonstrated by Fourier and later Einstein and Heisenberg, very closely related properties. These properties are related by a fundamental concept: frequency. A high frequency describes something which changes many times... by Breaking Math Podcast

44 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

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

62 min listen

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43: Interview II with Author Ben Orlin (Change is the Only Constant: the Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World)

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