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71: What's the Matter? An Interview with Chris Cogswell of the Mad Scientist Podcast (Material Science)
Matter is that which takes up space, and has mass. It is what we interact with, and what we are. Imagining a world without matter is to imagine light…
3 years, 10 months ago
70.1: Episode 70.1 of Breaking Math Podcast (Self-Reference)
Seldom do we think about self-reference, but it is a huge part of the world we live in. Every time that we say 'myself', for instance, we are engagin…
3 years, 11 months ago
70: This Episode Intentionally Left Blank
This episode description intentionally left blank! As in completely on purpose. Fun Fact! The creators of the Breaking Math Podcast, Sofia and G…
3 years, 11 months ago
Season 4 Announcement (and a Rerun of Forbidden Formulas)
Hello, listeners! This is Sofia with an announcement.
Season 4 is about to start, and we have some great episodes planned. The last few weeks have bee…
4 years ago
Rerun of P1: Peano Addition
On this problem episode, join Sofía and guest Diane Baca to learn about what an early attempt to formalize the natural numbers has to say about wheth…
4 years, 1 month ago
69: An Interview with Michael Brooks, Author of "The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization"
Michael Brooks is a science writer who specializes in making difficult concepts easier to grasp. In his latest book, Brooks goes through several math…
4 years, 1 month ago
P12: O My God (Big O Notation)
There are times in mathematics when we are generalizing the behavior of many different, but similar, entities. One such time that this happens is the…
4 years, 1 month ago
68: LOL!!! SO RANDOM (Random Variables)
The world is often uncertain, but it has only been in the last half millennium that we've found ways to interact mathematically with that concept. Fr…
4 years, 2 months ago
67: Wrath of Math (Mathematics Used Unwisely)
Mathematics is a subject that has been used for great things over time: it has helped people grow food, design shelter, and in every part of life. It…
4 years, 2 months ago
P11: Feeling Lucky? (Probability and Intuition)
Join Sofía Baca with her guest Millicent Oriana from the newly launched Nerd Forensics podcast as they discuss some apparent paradoxes in probability…
4 years, 3 months ago