Breaking Math Podcast
156 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★ - 316 ratingsHosted by Gabriel Hesch and Autumn Phaneuf, who have advanced degrees in EE and industrial engineering/operations research respectively, come together to discuss mathematics as a pure field al in its own as well as how it describes the language of science, engineering, and even creativity.
Breaking Math brings you the absolute best in interdisciplinary science discussions - bringing together experts in varying fields including artificial intelligence, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, physics, chemistry and materials-science, and more - to discuss where humanity is headed.
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P11: Feeling Lucky?
November 30, 2021 05:59 - 33 minutes - 31.2 MBJoin Sofía Baca with her guest Millicent Oriana from the newly launched Nerd Forensics podcast as they discuss some apparent paradoxes in probability and Russian roulette. Intro is "Breaking Math Theme" by Elliot Smith. Ads feature "Ding Dong" by Simon Panrucker [Featuring: Sofía Baca; Millicent Oriana] --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/breakingmathpodcast/support
P11: Feeling Lucky? (Probability and Intuition)
November 30, 2021 05:59 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MBJoin Sofía Baca with her guest Millicent Oriana from the newly launched Nerd Forensics podcast as they discuss some apparent paradoxes in probability and Russian roulette. Intro is "Breaking Math Theme" by Elliot Smith. Ads feature "Ding Dong" by Simon Panrucker [Featuring: Sofía Baca; Millicent Oriana] --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/breakingmathpodcast/support
Rerun of 40: Save the Date (Calendrical Math)
November 24, 2021 03:10 - 29 minutes - 27.6 MBThis is a rerun of an episode we did in 2019. It's about calendrical 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 things in the future, and generally just have a sense of reckoning time. This can be as simple as recognizing the seasons of the year, as arcane as the Roman Republican calendar, or as accurate as atomic clocks. So what are the origins of calendars? What is intercalation? And whe...
66: Hayhoe, Let's Go! (An Interview With Atmospheric Scientist Katharine Hayhoe)
November 21, 2021 00:16 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBKatharine Hayhoe was the lead author on the 2018 US Climate Assessment report, and has spent her time since then spreading the word about climate change. She was always faced with the difficult task of convincing people who had stakes in things that would be affected by acknowledging the information in her report. In her newest book, “Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World”, she discusses the challenges associated with these conversations, at both the mi...
66: Hayhoe, Let's Go! (An Interview With Climatologist Katherine Heyhoe)
November 21, 2021 00:16 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBKatherine Hayhoe was the lead author on the 2018 US Climate Assessment report, and has spent her time since then spreading the word about climate change. She was always faced with the difficult task of convincing people who had stakes in things that would be affected by acknowledging the information in her report. In her newest book, “Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World”, she discusses the challenges associated with these conversations, at both the mi...
66: Hayhoe, Let's Go! (An Interview With Climatologist Katharine Hayhoe)
November 21, 2021 00:16 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBKatharine Hayhoe was the lead author on the 2018 US Climate Assessment report, and has spent her time since then spreading the word about climate change. She was always faced with the difficult task of convincing people who had stakes in things that would be affected by acknowledging the information in her report. In her newest book, “Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World”, she discusses the challenges associated with these conversations, at both the mi...
66: Hayhoe, Let's Go! (An Interview With Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe)
November 21, 2021 00:16 - 1 hour - 98.6 MBKatharine Hayhoe was the lead author on the 2018 US Climate Assessment report, and has spent her time since then spreading the word about climate change. She was always faced with the difficult task of convincing people who had stakes in things that would be affected by acknowledging the information in her report. In her newest book, “Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World”, she discusses the challenges associated with these conversations, at both the m...
P10: Chivalry is Dead (Knights and Knaves #1)
November 14, 2021 05:29 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MBOne tells a lie, the other the truth! Have fun with Sofía and Meryl as they investigate knight, knave, and spy problems! Intro is "Breaking Math Theme" by Elliot Smith. Music in the ads were Plug Me In by Steve Combs and "Ding Dong" by Simon Panrucker. You can access their work at freemusicarchive.org. [Featuring: Sofia Baca; Meryl Flaherty]
65: An Interview with Author Ian Stewart (Book About Everyday Math)
October 24, 2021 21:11 - 44 minutes - 60.5 MBWelcome to another engaging episode of the Breaking Math Podcast! Today's episode, titled "What is the Use?," features a fascinating conversation with the renowned mathematician and author, Professor Ian Stewart. As Professor Stewart discusses his latest book "What's the Use? How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life," we dive deep into the real-world applications of mathematics that often go unnoticed in our daily technologies, like smartphones, and their unpredictable implications in various fi...
64: What Projection Is This? (Map Projections)
September 29, 2021 15:48 - 47 minutes - 64.8 MBThe world is a big place with a lot of wonderful things in it. The world also happens to be spherical, which can make getting to those things a challenge if you don't have many landmarks. This is the case when people are navigating by sea. For this reason, map projections, which take a sphere and attempt to flatten it onto a sheet, were born. So what is a map projection? Why are there so many? And why is Gall-Peters the worst? All of this, and more, on this episode of Breaking Math. Theme w...
RR36: The Most Boring Episode Ever (Rerun: Math Games)
September 19, 2021 16:19 - 49 minutes - 68 MBThis is a rerun of one of our favorite episodes! We hope that you enjoy it if you haven't listened to it yet. We'll be back next week with new content! Thank you so much for listening to Breaking Math! Math is a gravely serious topic which has been traditionally been done by stodgy people behind closed doors, and it cannot ever be taken lightly. Those who have fun with mathematics mock science, medicine, and the foundation of engineering. That is why on today's podcast, we're going to have ...
63: Broken Voting Systems (Voting Systems and Paradoxes)
September 05, 2021 18:10 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBVoting systems are, in modern times, essential to the way that large-scale decisions are made. The concept of voicing an opinion to be, hopefully, considered fairly is as ancient and well-established as the human concept of society in general. But, as time goes on, the recent massive influx of voting systems in the last 150 years have shown us that there are as many ways to vote as there are flaws in the way that the vote is tallied. So what problems exist with voting? Are there any intrinsi...
62: The Atom Bomb of Information Operations (An Interview with John Fuisz of Veriphix)
August 22, 2021 22:04 - 45 minutes - 62.2 MBForecasting is a constantly evolving science, and has been applied to complex systems; everything from the weather, to determining what customers might like to buy, and even what governments might rise and fall. John Fuisz is someone who works with this science, and has experience improving the accuracy of forecasting. So how can forecasting be analyzed? What type of events are predictable? And why might Russia think a Missouri senator's race hinges upon North Korea? All of this and more on ...
RR38: The Great Stratagem Heist (Game Theory: Iterated Elimination of Dominated Strategies)
May 23, 2021 15:09 - 33 minutes - 46.5 MBThis is a rerun of one of our favorite episodes while we change our studio around. 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 the choice of the decision-maker, but one or more similar decision makers. This episode will give an idea of the type of problem-solving that is used in game theory. So what is strict dominance? How can it help us solve some games? And why are The Obnoxious Seven wan...
61: Look at this Graph! (Graph Theory)
April 25, 2021 22:46 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBIn mathematics, nature is a constant driving inspiration; mathematicians are part of nature, so this is natural. A huge part of nature is the idea of things like networks. These are represented by mathematical objects called 'graphs'. Graphs allow us to describe a huge variety of things, such as: the food chain, lineage, plumbing networks, electrical grids, and even friendships. So where did this concept come from? What tools can we use to analyze graphs? And how can you use graph theory to ...
P9: Give or Take (Back-of-the-Envelope Estimates / Fermi Problems)
April 19, 2021 13:15 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBHow many piano tuners are there in New York City? How much cheese is there in Delaware? And how can you find out? All of this and more on this problem-episode of Breaking Math. This episode distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-Noncommercial 4.0 International License. For more information, visit creativecommons.org Featuring theme song and outro by Elliot Smith of Albuquerque. [Featuring: Sofía Baca, Meryl Flaherty]
60: HAMILTON! [But Not the Musical] (Quaternions)
April 03, 2021 19:26 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBi^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk = -1. This deceptively simple formula, discovered by Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1843, led to a revolution in the way 19th century mathematicians and scientists thought about vectors and rotation. This formula, which extends the complex numbers, allows us to talk about certain three-dimensional problems with more ease. So what are quaternions? Where are they still used? And what is inscribed on Broom Bridge? All of this and more on this episode of Brea...
59: A Good Source of Fibers (Fiber Bundles)
March 21, 2021 21:43 - 42 minutes - 57.7 MBMathematics is full of all sorts of objects that can be difficult to comprehend. For example, if we take a slip of paper and glue it to itself, we can get a ring. If we turn it a half turn before gluing it to itself, we get what's called a Möbius strip, which has only one side twice the length of the paper. If we glue the edges of the Möbius strip to each other, and make a tube, you'll run into trouble in three dimensions, because the object that this would make is called a Klein flask, and ...
58: Bringing Curvy Back (Gaussian Curvature)
March 03, 2021 23:34 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MBIn introductory geometry classes, many of the objects dealt with can be considered 'elementary' in nature; things like tetrahedrons, spheres, cylinders, planes, triangles, lines, and other such concepts are common in these classes. However, we often have the need to describe more complex objects. These objects can often be quite organic, or even abstract in shape, and include things like spirals, flowery shapes, and other curved surfaces. These are often described better by differential geom...
P8: Tangent Tango (Morikawa's Recently Solved Problem)
February 25, 2021 00:05 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MBJoin Sofía and Gabriel as they talk about Morikawa's recently solved problem, first proposed in 1821 and not solved until last year! Also, if you haven't yet, check out our sponsor The Great Courses at thegreatcoursesplus.com/breakingmath for a free month! Learn basically anything there. The paper featured in this episode can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00922 This episode is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. For more informat...
P7: Root for Squares (Irrationality of the Square Root of Two)
February 07, 2021 19:54 - 14 minutes - 19.6 MBJoin Sofía and Gabriel as they discuss an old but great proof of the irrationality of the square root of two. [Featuring: Sofía Baca, Gabriel Hesch] Patreon-Become a monthly supporter at patreon.com/breakingmath Merchandise Ad contained music track "Buffering" from Quiet Music for Tiny Robots. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. For more information, visit creativecommons.org.
57: You Said How Much?! (Measure Theory)
February 01, 2021 01:27 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBIf you are there, and I am here, we can measure the distance between us. If we are standing in a room, we can calculate the area of where we're standing; and, if we want, the volume. These are all examples of measures; which, essentially, tell us how much 'stuff' we have. So what is a measure? How are distance, area, and volume related? And how big is the Sierpinski triangle? All of this and more on this episode of Breaking Math. Ways to support the show: Patreon-Become a monthly supporter...
P6: How Many Angles in a Circle? (Curvature; Euclidean Geometry)
January 28, 2021 20:55 - 28 minutes - 39.6 MBSofía and Gabriel discuss the question of "how many angles are there in a circle", and visit theorems from Euclid, as well as differential calculus. This episode is distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. For more information, visit CreativeCommons.org. Ways to support the show: Patreon-Become a monthly supporter at patreon.com/breakingmath The theme for this episode was written by Elliot Smith. Music in the ad was Tiny Robot Armies by Quiet Music for Tiny Robots. [Featuring: Sofía B...
56: More Sheep than You Can Count (Transfinite Cardinal Numbers)
January 24, 2021 20:50 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MBLook at all you phonies out there. You poseurs. All of you sheep. Counting 'til infinity. Counting sheep. *pff* What if I told you there were more there? Like, ... more than you can count? But what would a sheeple like you know about more than infinity that you can count? heh. *pff* So, like, what does it mean to count til infinity? What does it mean to count more? And, like, where do dimensions fall in all of this? Ways to support the show: Patreon-Become a monthly supporter at pat...
55: Order in the Court (Transfinite Ordinal Numbers)
January 14, 2021 17:25 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MBAs a child, did you ever have a conversation that went as follows: "When I grow up, I want to have a million cats" "Well I'm gonna have a billion billion cats" "Oh yeah? I'm gonna have infinity cats" "Then I'm gonna have infinity plus one cats" "That's nothing. I'm gonna have infinity infinity cats" "I'm gonna have infinity infinity infinity infinity *gasp* infinity so many infinities that there are infinity infinities plus one cats" What if I told you that you were dabbling in the tr...
54: Oodles (Large Numbers)
December 21, 2020 20:16 - 27 minutes - 37.2 MBThere are a lot of things in the universe, but no matter how you break them down, you will still have far fewer particles than even some of the smaller of what we're calling the 'very large numbers'. Many people have a fascination with these numbers, and perhaps it is because their sheer scale can boggle the mind. So what numbers can be called 'large'? When are they useful? And what is the Ackermann function? All of this and more on this episode of Breaking Math [Featuring: Sofía Baca; Dian...
53: Big Brain Time (Interview with Peter Zeidman; Interview)
December 11, 2020 20:08 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBNeuroscience is a topic that, in many ways, is in its infancy. The tools that are being used in this field are constantly being honed and reevaluated as our understanding of the brain and mind increase. And it's no surprise: the brain is responsible for the way we interact with the world, and the idea that ideas hone one another is not new to anyone who possesses a mind. But how can the tools that we use to study the brain and the mind be linked? How do the mind and the brain encode one anot...
53: Big Brain Time (An Interview with Peter Zeidman from the UCL Institute of Neurology)
December 11, 2020 20:08 - 43 minutes - 59.6 MBNeuroscience is a topic that, in many ways, is in its infancy. The tools that are being used in this field are constantly being honed and reevaluated as our understanding of the brain and mind increase. And it's no surprise: the brain is responsible for the way we interact with the world, and the idea that ideas hone one another is not new to anyone who possesses a mind. But how can the tools that we use to study the brain and the mind be linked? How do the mind and the brain encode one anot...
52: Round (Circles and Spheres)
December 05, 2020 17:24 - 30 minutes - 42.2 MBSpheres and circles are simple objects. They are objects that are uniformly curved throughout in some way or another. They can also be defined as objects which have a boundary that is uniformly distant from some point, using some definition of distance. Circles and spheres were integral to the study of mathematics at least from the days of Euclid, being the objects generated by tracing the ends of idealized compasses. However, these objects have many wonderful and often surprising mathematic...
P5: All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Fractional Base Proof)
November 26, 2020 03:58 - 13 minutes - 17.9 MBJoin Sofia and Gabriel on this problem episode where we explore "base 3-to-2" — a base system we explored on the last podcast — and how it relates to "base 3/2" from last episode. [Featuring: Sofía Baca; Gabriel Hesch]
51: Episode "-2,0,1" (Bases; Exotic Bases)
November 15, 2020 04:46 - 34 minutes - 47.1 MBA numerical base is a system of representing numbers using a sequence of symbols. However, like any mathematical concept, it can be extended and re-imagined in many different forms. A term used occasionally in mathematics is the term 'exotic', which just means 'different than usual in an odd or quirky way'. In this episode we are covering exotic bases. We will start with something very familiar (viz., decimal points) as a continuation of our previous episode, and then progress to the more od...
50: Episode "101" (Bases)
August 31, 2020 12:27 - 54 minutes - 75.2 MBNumbering was originally done with tally marks: the number of tally marks indicated the number of items being counted, and they were grouped together by fives. A little later, people wrote numbers down by chunking the number in a similar way into larger numbers: there were symbols for ten, ten times that, and so forth, for example, in ancient Egypt; and we are all familiar with the Is, Vs, Xs, Ls, Cs, and Ds, at least, of Roman numerals. However, over time, several peoples, including the Inu...
50: Episode 101 (Bases)
August 31, 2020 12:27 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBNumbering was originally done with tally marks: the number of tally marks indicated the number of items being counted, and they were grouped together by fives. A little later, people wrote numbers down by chunking the number in a similar way into larger numbers: there were symbols for ten, ten times that, and so forth, for example, in ancient Egypt; and we are all familiar with the Is, Vs, Xs, Ls, Cs, and Ds, at least, of Roman numerals. However, over time, several peoples, including the Inu...
War and Peace: Past, Present, Future- A discussion on Alex's Science Fiction Trilogy
August 18, 2020 02:28 - 1 hour - 58.6 MB*Subscribe at youtube.com/turingrabbitholespodcast Alex and Gabe discuss Alex's Science Fiction Trilogy. Starting in a fictional Nazi Youth Science Academy, three young children go on to accomplish great things and become great friends only to discover that one of them has Jewish ancestry. Can their friendship survive this tumultuous time in our worlds history? The three go on to become great scientists contributing to the fates of the major powers of the 20th and 21st centuries. -...
Violence, Poverty, Ignorance and a PhD in Physics
July 31, 2020 12:03 - 50 minutes - 47.1 MB-Subscribe at www.youtube.com/TuringRabbitHolesPodcast -Visit our Patreon at patreon.com/TuringRabbitHoles -Against the odds of experiencing domestic violence, ignorance, and poverty as a child, Alex goes on to earn his PhD in Physics and provides an much better life for his children than the one that he grew up in. This is his story. *The Turing Rabbit Holes Podcast may also be heard on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever podcasts are heard. --- Sup...
Can Science Explain Consciousness? (Ep 2 of Turing Rabbit Holes Youtube Show)
July 23, 2020 01:15 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBEpisode 2 from youtube.com/TuringRabbitHolesPodcast. "Can Science Explain Consciousness?" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/breakingmathpodcast/support
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June 03, 2020 01:00 - 9 minutes - 13.4 MB#BLACKOUTDAY2020 George Perry Floyd was murdered by police on May 25, 2020. Learn more on twitter or your favorite search engine by searching #BLACKOUTDAY2020 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/breakingmathpodcast/support
49: Thinking Machines II (Techniques in Artificial Intelligence)
May 26, 2020 15:40 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MBMachines have been used to simplify labor since time immemorial, and simplify thought in the last few hundred years. We are at a point now where we have the electronic computer to aid us in our endeavor, which allows us to build hypothetical thinking machines by simply writing their blueprints — namely, the code that represents their function — in a general way that can be easily reproduced by others. This has given rise to an astonishing array of techniques used to process data, and in recen...
48: Thinking Machines (Philosophical Basis of Artificial Intelligence)
May 18, 2020 00:48 - 54 minutes - 75.2 MBMachines, during the lifetime of anyone who is listening to this, have advanced and revolutionized the way that we live our lives. Many listening to this, for example, have lived through the rise of smart phones, 3d printing, massive advancements in lithium ion batteries, the Internet, robotics, and some have even lived through the introduction of cable TV, color television, and computers as an appliance. All advances in machinery, however, since the beginning of time have one thing in commo...
48: Thinking Machines (Artificial Intelligence)
May 18, 2020 00:48 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBMachines, during the lifetime of anyone who is listening to this, have advanced and revolutionized the way that we live our lives. Many listening to this, for example, have lived through the rise of smart phones, 3d printing, massive advancements in lithium ion batteries, the Internet, robotics, and some have even lived through the introduction of cable TV, color television, and computers as an appliance. All advances in machinery, however, since the beginning of time have one thing in commo...
P4: Go with the Flow (Conceptual Calculus: Related Rates of Change)
March 10, 2020 00:44 - 36 minutes - 49.4 MBJoin Gabriel and Sofía as they delve into some introductory calculus concepts. [Featuring: Sofía Baca, Gabriel Hesch] Ways to support the show: Patreon Become a monthly supporter at patreon.com/breakingmath
47: Blast to the Past (Retrocausality)
February 29, 2020 22:08 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBTime is something that everyone has an idea of, but is hard to describe. Roughly, the arrow of time is the same as the arrow of causality. However, what happens when that is not the case? It is so often the case in our experience that this possibility brings not only scientific and mathematic, but ontological difficulties. So what is retrocausality? What are closed timelike curves? And how does this all relate to entanglement? This episode is distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. For mo...
RR30: The Abyss (Part One; Black Holes; Rerun)
February 18, 2020 16:54 - 55 minutes - 76.1 MBSofia is still recovering from eye surgery, so this will be a rerun. We'll probably be back next week. The idea of something that is inescapable, at first glance, seems to violate our sense of freedom. This sense of freedom, for many, seems so intrinsic to our way of seeing the universe that it seems as though such an idea would only beget horror in the human mind. And black holes, being objects from which not even light can escape, for many do beget that same existential horror. But these ob...
RR24: Language and Entropy (Information Theory in Language; Rerun)
February 11, 2020 04:02 - 47 minutes - 44.4 MBSofia is still recovering from eye surgery, so this will be a rerun. Information theory was founded in 1948 by Claude Shannon, and is a way of both qualitatively and quantitatively describing the limits and processes involved in communication. Roughly speaking, when two entities communicate, they have a message, a medium, confusion, encoding, and decoding; and when two entities communicate, they transfer information between them. The amount of information that is possible to be transmitted c...
P3: Radiativeforcenado (Radiative Forcing)
February 03, 2020 14:00 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBLearn more about radiative forcing, the environment, and how global temperature changes with atmospheric absorption with this Problem Episode about you walking your (perhaps fictional?) dog around a park. This episode is distributed under a CC BY-SA license. For more information, visit CreativeCommons.org. [Featuring: Sofía Baca, Gabriel Hesch] --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/...
46: Earth Irradiated (the Greenhouse Effect)
January 20, 2020 03:01 - 41 minutes - 57.6 MBSince time immemorial, blacksmiths have known that the hotter metal gets, the more it glows: it starts out red, then gets yellower, and then eventually white. In 1900, Max Planck discovered the relationship between an ideal object's radiation of light and its temperature. A hundred and twenty years later, we're using the consequences of this discovery for many things, including (indirectly) LED TVs, but perhaps one of the most dangerously neglected (or at least ignored) applications of this ...
45: Climate Denialism and Cranky Uncles (Interview with John Cook of Skeptical Science)
December 10, 2019 20:06 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBClimate change is an issue that has become frighteningly more relevant in recent years, and because of special interests, the field has become muddied with climate change deniers who use dishonest tactics to try to get their message across. The website SkepticalScience.com is one line of defense against these messengers, and it was created and maintained by a research assistant professor at the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, and both authored and co-autho...
44: Vestigial Math (Math That Is Not Used like It Used to Be)
November 03, 2019 23:41 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MBMathematics, like any intellectual pursuit, is a constantly-evolving field; and, like any evolving field, there are both new beginnings and sudden unexpected twists, and things take on both new forms and new responsibilities. Today on the show, we're going to cover a few mathematical topics whose nature has changed over the centuries. So what does it mean for math to be extinct? How does this happen? And will it continue forever? This episode is distributed under a CC BY-SA license. For mor...
P2: Walk the Dog (Calculus: Chain Rule)
October 30, 2019 06:56 - 18 minutes - 26.1 MBLearn more about calculus, derivatives, and the chain rule with this Problem Episode about you walking your (perhaps fictional?) dog around a park. This episode is distributed under a CC BY-SA license. For more information, visit CreativeCommons.org. [Featuring: Sofía Baca, Gabriel Hesch] --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/breakingmathpodcast/support
43: Interview II with Author Ben Orlin (Change is the Only Constant: the Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World)
October 23, 2019 17:39 - 42 minutes - 58.7 MBBen 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 teaches mathematics using his humble drawing skills. His last book was a smorgasbord of different mathematical topics, but he recently came out with a new book 'Change is the Only Constant: the Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World', which focuses more on calculus itself. This episode is distributed under a CC BY-SA license. For more info, visit creat...