The Art of Mathematics

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4.7
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57 episodes
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Date created
2020/07/27
Average duration
19 min.
Release period
31 days

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Conversations, explorations, conjectures solved and unsolved, mathematicians and beautiful mathematics. No math background required.

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Books for the Mathematical Tourist
2024/01/24
Lee Kraftchick discusses some of his favorite books for non-mathematicians to explore the breadth of mathematics. These books range from very old to current. Some discuss beautiful proofs, whether math is invented or discovered, and how to think. Lee and Carol agree on the number one greatest book for mathematicians and non-mathematicians alike. See the full list at theartofmathematicspodcast.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-art-of-mathematics/message
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Reflecting on Kaleidoscopes
2023/12/27
Jeanne Lazzarini talks about kaleidoscopes and the mathematics that makes them work. This "beautiful form watcher" uses the laws of reflection to make ever-changing repeated symmetries. The use of more mirrors, rectangles, cylinders or pyramids create even more complex patterns. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-art-of-mathematics/message
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Meet the young Davidson Fellowship winners
2023/11/22
Ethan Zhao and Edward Yu are the winners in mathematics of the prestigious Davidson Fellow Scholarships, awarded based on projects completed by students under 18. Ethan's project was on learning models and Edward's was on combinatorics. It was math contests and the MIT Primes program that gave them the background to do original research in high school, an experience most mathematicians don't get until graduate school. They also discussed the accessibility of math. You can come up with interesting problems while staring out the window. You can invent your own tools. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-art-of-mathematics/message
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Gödel's Incompleteness, Fundamental Truths, and Reasoning in Math and Law
2023/10/25
Lawyer Lee Kraftchick discusses the search for truth and basic principles in the legal community and the surprising parallels and similarities with the same search in the math community. Mathematical and legal arguments follow a similar structure. Even the backwards way an argument is created is the same. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-art-of-mathematics/message
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Math and the Law
2023/09/27
Lee Kraftchick, a lawyer with a math degree, discusses some of the surprising parallels between the fields. Math is used directly to make statistical arguments to rule out random chance as a cause. He gives examples from his experience in redistricting and affirmative action. Math is used indirectly in legal reasoning from what is known to justified conclusions. Math reasoning and legal reasoning are remarkably similar. He invites lawyers to set aside the usual "lawyers aren't good at math" stereotype and see the beauty of the subject. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-art-of-mathematics/message
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Fabulous Fibonacci
2023/08/23
Jeanne Lazzarini looks for math in the real world and finds the Fibonacci sequence and the closely related Golden Ratio. These appear as we examine plants, bees, rabbits, flowers, fruit, and the human body. These natural patterns and pleasing symmetries find their way into the arts. Does nature understand math better than we do? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-art-of-mathematics/message
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Vowels and Sounds and a Little Calculus
2023/07/26
Brian Katz, from California State University Long Beach, invites us to explore the various layers of ordinary sounds, informed by a little calculus. The limited frequencies that come out of the wave equation are what separates sounds that communicate (voice, music) from noise. These higher notes are in the sound itself and you can hear them (but alas, not on this compressed podcast audio). Brian has provided links to hear these layers of pitches at theartofmathematicspodcast.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-art-of-mathematics/message
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The Hat: A Newly Discovered "Ein-stein" Tessellation Tile
2023/06/28
Jeanne Lazzarini, who has visited us before to talk about tessellations, discusses a new mathematical discovery that even earned a mention on Jimmy Kimmel. It's a shape that can be used to fill the plane with no gaps and no overlaps and, most remarkably, no repeating patterns. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-art-of-mathematics/message
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Interfacing Music and Mathematics
2023/05/24
Lawrence Udeigwe, associate professor of mathematics at Manhattan College and an MLK Visiting Associate Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, is both a mathematician and a musician. We discuss his recent opinion piece in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society calling for "A Case for More Engagement" between the two areas, and even get a little "Misty." He's working on music that both jazz and math folks will enjoy. We talk about "hearing" math in jazz and the life of a mathematician among neuroscientists. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-art-of-mathematics/message
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Fourier Analysis: It's Not Just for Differential Equations
2023/04/26
Joseph Bennish returns to dig into the math behind the Fourier Analysis we discussed last time. Specifically, it allows us to express any function in terms of sines and cosines. Fourier analysis appears in nature--our eyes and ears do it. It's used to study the distribution of primes, build JPEG files, read the structure of complicated molecules and more. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-art-of-mathematics/message
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Joseph Fourier, the Heat Equation and the Age of the Earth
2023/03/22
Joseph Bennish, Professor Emeritus of California State University, Long Beach, joins us for an excursion into physics and some of the mathematics it inspired. Joseph Fourier straddled mathematics and physics. Here we focus on his heat equation, based on partial differential equations. Partial differential equations have broad applications. Fourier developed not only the heat equation but also a way to solve it. This equation was used to answer, among other questions, the issue of the age of the earth. Was the earth too young to make Darwin's theory credible? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-art-of-mathematics/message
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The Ten Most Important Theorems in Mathematics, Part II
2023/02/22
Jim Stein, Professor Emeritus of CSULS, returns to complete his (admittedly subjective) list of the ten greatest math theorems of all time, with fascinating insights and anecdotes for each. Last time he did the runners up and numbers 8, 9 and 10. Here he completes numbers 1 through 7, again ranging over geometry, trig, calculus, probability, statistics, primes and more. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-art-of-mathematics/message
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