Theorem of the Day
Robin Whitty hosts the website theoremoftheday.org, which presents a concise poster about a different theorem each day, with explanation, graphics, and links. He has been doing this for 21 years. Theo...
24 Sep 22min
Life-Changing Math
Ted Dintersmith, author of Aftermath: The Life-Changing Math that Schools Won't Teach You, argues that much of what we learn in math can be outsourced to machines. That frees people to understand the ...
26 Aug 16min
Zeno's Paradox: Is Motion Possible?
Josh Cole discussed Zeno's paradox that says motion is not possible since you must go half-way, and then half of the remaining distance, and so on, infinitely. Aristotle and others struggled with this...
22 Jul 15min
The Most Beautiful Formula
Joseph Bennish discusses Euler’s formula, which involves pi, e, the imagery i, 0 and 1, a beautiful formula that unites disparate types of numbers. We can think of e raised to an exponent as compound ...
27 Jun 16min
Math as it Should Be
Aris Winger, Math Professor and Executive Director of the National Association of Mathematicians, has experienced first hand how math can save students' lives by uplifting them. Our education system c...
27 Mai 17min
Crocheting Mathematics
Beyza Aslan, Associate Professor of Math at the University of North Florida, crochets mathematics. This turns abstractions, such as hyperbolic geometry, into something that can be touched, felt, manip...
22 Apr 12min
Pythagorean Triples and Some New Conjectures
Ben Cornish, host of The Mathematicians Podcast, discusses Pythagorean triples, integers that can be the sides of a right triangle. There are infinitely many primitive triples, as he proves. This conc...
25 Mar 20min
Proofs and Buckets of Fish
Joel David Hamkins, author of Proof and the Art of Mathematics, presents the game Buckets of Fish, which seemingly will go on forever. Yet he presents a proof that it will always come to an end. In fa...
25 Feb 15min
