All Squared
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago -Occasional(ly) mathematical blogging
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
The Maths Podcast to end all Maths Podcasts
December 02, 2018 10:36At the MathsJam weekend gathering earlier this month, we found ourselves invited to join maths podcasting supremo Samuel Hansen for a recording session. Nothing unusual there: podcasts have been recorded at MathsJam before. But this time Samuel wanted to record more than one podcast at the same time – since many of the maths podcasting…
All Squared, Number 11 – Maths Jam
January 14, 2014 11:34 - 36 minutes - 14.1 MBMathsJam is an annual conference in the UK, and a monthly night in pubs around the world, organised respectively by mathematician and juggler Colin Wright, and stand-up mathematician Matt Parker. We cornered Matt and Colin at the MathsJam conference last November, and talked to them for just over half an hour about the conference, the…
All Squared, Number 10: Maths journalism
October 31, 2013 10:57 - 26 minutes - 11.5 MBEvelyn Lamb is a professional mathematician who has taken up journalism on the side. She received the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship last year, and spent the summer writing for the magazine Scientific American. We talked to her about maths journalism, the challenges involved in making advances accessible to a wider audience, and the differences between blogging and…
All Squared, Number 9: Miscellanea with CP and Cushing
October 14, 2013 07:19 - 52 minutes - 59.9 MBWe have an unusual All Squared podcast for you this time. My good friend David Cushing has been asking to do a podcast for absolutely ages. We couldn’t decide on a single topic to talk about, so instead I suggested we just sit down and chat about maths in general, like we do when there isn’t…
All Squared, Number 8: Martin Gardner (Colm Mulcahy part 2)
October 06, 2013 20:40 - 24 minutes - 11.5 MBThis is the second and final part of our interview with Colm Mulcahy. Last week we talked about card magic; in this part we moved on to the subject of Martin Gardner and the gatherings of interesting people associated with his name. We’ve tacked on some blather we recorded about the British Science Festival in…
All Squared, Number 7: Card Magic (Colm Mulcahy part 1)
September 29, 2013 08:59 - 29 minutes - 11.8 MBColm Mulcahy is an original Aperiodical contributor (Aperiodicontributor?) and friend of the site. He’s spent the last year and a bit writing his new book, Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects. It came out a few weeks ago, so we thought it was a good opportunity to talk to him and find out just what’s so…
All Squared, Number 6: Favourite maths books (part 2)
May 18, 2013 17:23 - 28 minutes - 11.5 MBThis number of the All Squared podcast contains the final third of our interview with the inestimable David Singmaster, and then a bit from CP about his favourite book, “A treatise on practical arithmetic, with book-keeping by single entry“, by William Tinwell. The first part of the interview, and plenty of links to go with…
All Squared, Number 5: Favourite maths books (part 1)
May 11, 2013 09:14 - 30 minutes - 12.6 MBGood maths books are simultaneously plentiful and rare. While there are a few classics almost everyone knows about and has copies of (Gardner, Hardy, etc.), the trade in lesser-known maths books is considerably less well-organised. Very few bookshops have well-stocked maths sections, and insipid pop maths books dominate. Unless you hear about a good maths…
All Squared, Number 4: How interesting!
April 09, 2013 21:22 - 36 minutes - 19.6 MBIt’s a repeat booking for the Festival of the Spoken Nerd in number 4 (or 16 if you belong to Team All Squared) of our podcast. Standup mathematician Matt Parker joined us to talk about interesting coincidences. Here are some links to the things we referred to in the podcast, along with some bonus extras: The…
All Squared, Number 3: As Easy As…
March 14, 2013 08:00 - 28 minutes - 13.8 MBRemember, remember, The fourteenth of March. While the previous number of All Squared failed to achieve topicality by appearing several weeks after the event it was about, this time we’ve hit the nail bang on the head with a podcast all about π day… on π day! We chatted to Festival of the Spoken Nerd’s Steve Mould about remembering π…
All Squared, Number 2 – Pancake formula
March 05, 2013 22:24 - 29 minutes - 16 MBHere’s the second edition of our new podcast, All Squared. This time we talked to Dr Andrew Taylor, PhD, about nonsense formulas in the news. In particular, since we recorded very close to pancake day, we took a close look at the various “formulas for the perfect pancake” printed in UK newspapers. Here are some links…
All Squared, Number 1: Maths out loud
February 24, 2013 17:46 - 26 minutes - 13 MBWe’ve been quietly making plans and gathering material for a new project over the past couple of weeks, after noticing that there’s an unusual paucity of maths podcasts at the moment. Well, that exciting new project is now happening, and it’s a half-hour podcast featuring maths, guests, puzzles and links from the internet. It’s called…