On Being with Krista Tippett Podcast Episodes featuring Janna Levin
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[Unedited] Janna Levin with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett - April 03, 2014 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsJanna Levin is an astrophysicist and writer. She has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of spacetime. She is the author of “A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines,” which won the PEN/Bingham prize. This interview i...
Janna Levin — Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth
On Being with Krista Tippett - April 03, 2014 16:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsAn astrophysicist who studies the shape of the universe, Janna Levin has also explored her science by writing a novel about two pivotal 20th-century mathematicians, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing. Both men pushed at boundaries where mathematics presses on grand questions of meaning and purpose. Suc...