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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 teache…
6 years, 4 months ago
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…
6 years, 5 months ago
42: Maybe? (Probability and Statistics)
Statistics is a field that is considered boring by a lot of people, including a huge amount of mathematicians. This may be because the history of sta…
6 years, 6 months ago
SR1: Forty Intros (Catalogue)
We've been doing this show for a while, and we thought it'd be fun to put out our first forty intros, especially since we passed 500,000 listens very…
6 years, 6 months ago
41: Reality Is More Than Complex (Group Theory and Physics)
Children who are being taught mathematics often balk at the idea of negative numbers, thinking them to be fictional entities, and often only learn la…
6 years, 7 months ago
40: Save the Date (Calendrical Math)
A calendar is a system of dividing up time into manageable chunks so that we can reference how long ago something happened, agree on times to do thin…
6 years, 7 months ago
39: Syntax Matters: Syntax... Matters? (Formal Grammar)
We communicate every day through languages; not only human languages, but other things that could be classified as languages such as internet protoco…
6 years, 9 months ago
38: The Great Stratagem Heist (Game Theory: Iterated Elimination of Dominated Strategies)
Game theory is all about decision-making and how it is impacted by choice of strategy, and a strategy is a decision that is influenced not only by th…
6 years, 10 months ago
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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 playi…
7 years ago
Stay Tuned for Season 3
Breaking Math will return with a third season in early February with an episode series about game theory starting with "The One where they Parody 'Sa…
7 years, 1 month ago