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Hello. This is Jonathan Baca from Breaking Math here with a quick message. We will be back Tuesday June 19th with an episode on Bell's inequality, wh…
7 years, 8 months ago
27: Peer Pressure (Cellular Automata)
Season 2 Episode 27
The fabric of the natural world is an issue of no small contention: philosophers and truth-seekers universally debate about and study the nature of r…
7 years, 9 months ago
26: Infinity Shades of Grey (Paradox)
A paradox is characterized either by a logical problem that does not have a single dominant expert solution, or by a set of logical steps that seem t…
7 years, 10 months ago
25: Pandemic Panic (Epidemiology)
Season 2 Episode 25
The spectre of disease causes untold mayhem, anguish, and desolation. The extent to which this spectre has yielded its power, however, has been massi…
7 years, 10 months ago
24: Language and Entropy (Information Theory in Language)
Information theory was founded in 1948 by Claude Shannon, and is a way of both qualitatively and quantitatively describing the limits and processes i…
7 years, 11 months ago
Stay Tuned for Season 2!
Jonathan and Gabriel discuss what you have to expect with Breaking Math's second season!
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8 years ago
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 …
8 years, 1 month ago
22: Incomplet (Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid: Chapter IV Discussion)
Gödel, Escher, Bach is a book about everything from formal logic to the intricacies underlying the mechanisms of reasoning. For that reason, we've de…
8 years, 2 months ago
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…
8 years, 2 months ago
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 charac…
8 years, 3 months ago