Relatively Prime: Stories from the Mathematical Domain
61 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsA mathematics podcast from ACMEScience featuring the best math stories from the world of maths
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#BlackInMathWeek
November 09, 2020 15:41 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBOn this episode of Relatively Prime, Michole Enjoli and Noelle Sawyer take over for Black in Math Week. They talk to Brea Ratliff and José Vilson, two Black…
Black Girl Mathgic
November 01, 2020 02:18 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MBOn this episode of Relatively Prime Samuel is joined by Brittany Rhodes the creator of the amazing monthly mathematics subscription box Black Girl Mathgic. They discuss where the…
The Somervilles
March 31, 2020 21:26 - 26 minutes - 37.1 MBOn this episode of Relatively Prime Samuel is joined by Brigitte Stenhouse of the Open University to talk about the life and times of Mary, and William, Somerville.…
3 Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Banneker
February 29, 2020 13:17 - 10 minutes - 14.4 MBOn this month’s Relatively Prime Samuel shares three scenes from the life of Benjamin Banneker. One about a clock, one about a solar eclipse projectsion, and one about…
Truthiness
February 15, 2020 23:46 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MBIn this live episode recorded at the 2020 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Denver Samuel Hansen talks about the truth behind the stories we all tell in mathematics. In…
2019 Year End Review
December 31, 2019 16:07 - 32 minutes - 46.2 MBTo wrap up the year 2019 Samuel Hansen is joined by Katie Steckles and Christian Lawson-Perfect of Aperiodical.com to discuss some of the big stories from the world…
Authors
November 01, 2019 01:10 - 26 minutes - 12.5 MBOn this episode of Relatively Prime we explore the thoughts of authors of general audience mathematics books. Specifically they share why they started writing, how they choose their…
Citation Aging
October 01, 2019 00:30 - 19 minutes - 8.94 MBFor this episode of Relatively Prime Samuel decided that instead of speaking to a guest they would instead talk about the research they are conducting now that they…
A Beauty Cold and Austere
August 31, 2019 00:49 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBOn this month’s episode of Relatively Prime Samuel Hansen speaks with Professor Mike Spivey from University of Puget Sound about his interactive fiction game A Beauty Cold and…
Robert Schneider
July 31, 2019 20:46 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBThis episode is a bit of a blast from the past. Samuel has recently been going back through some of the old episodes from season 1 and while…
Mathematical Objects
June 29, 2019 09:28 - 46 minutes - 43 MBOn this episode of Relatively Prime Samuel Hansen is joined by fellow podcasters and friends Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett of the Aperiodical to talk about their new…
EDGE
May 01, 2019 01:04 - 16 minutes - 15.8 MBOn this episode of Relatively Prime Samuel speaks with the founders, Sylvia Bozeman of Spellman College and Rhonda Hughes of Bryn Mawr, a current director, Ami Randunskaya of…
Mathematically Gifted & Black
March 31, 2019 22:42 - 31 minutes - 14.7 MBIf a person is going to become a mathematician it is important for them to be able to see examples of people like themselves who have already made…
3 2 1…Action
February 28, 2019 00:20 - 49 minutes - 22.6 MBHere on Relatively Prime we have discussed mathematical novels and poetry and music and even featured mathematics sketches, but we have yet to talk movies. That oversight is…
Jem’s Gems
January 31, 2019 16:37 - 17 minutes - 8.3 MBOn Relatively Prime we talk a lot about mathematicians and their research, but it has been a long time since we have talked about an absolutely integral part…
A Year (1811) In Review
December 31, 2018 18:11 - 17 minutes - 8.12 MBSamuel has been in the middle of a big move this month, more on this in upcoming episodes, but they did not want you to be without a…
All the Math Podcasts-Bonus
December 20, 2018 14:48 - 40 minutes - 18.9 MBThis bonus episode of Relatively Prime features a live podcast recording from 2018’s Annual MathsJam Gathering. This live podcast featured segments from Math/Maths, Wrong But Useful, Talkdust, Strongly…
Cycle of Mathematics: Around 20 Papers
November 30, 2018 12:38 - 14 minutes - 6.67 MBWelcome to the fourth and final episode of the Cycle of Mathematics mini-series from Relatively Prime. In this mini-series we are covering mathematics from its start as an…
Cycle of Mathematics: Orange Volumes on a Shelf (On the Internet)
October 31, 2018 23:23 - 25 minutes - 12.1 MBWelcome to the third episode of the Cycle of Mathematics mini-series from Relatively Prime. In this mini-series we are covering mathematics from its start as an idea to…
Cycle of Mathematics: Verify, Revise, Repeat
October 01, 2018 01:10 - 17 minutes - 8.27 MBWelcome to the second episode of the Cycle of Mathematics mini-series from Relatively Prime. In this mini-series we are covering mathematics from its start as an idea to…
Cycle of Mathematics: The Six Handshakes
August 31, 2018 21:28 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MBWelcome to the new Cycle of Mathematics mini-series from Relatively Prime. In this mini-series we will be covering mathematics from its start as an idea to its publication…
The Big Internet Math Off (Updated)
July 25, 2018 16:08 - 42 minutes - 39.7 MBAs this is being written there is around 18 hours left in the final match of the Aperiodical’s Big Internet Math Off between Matt Parker and Dr. Nira…
Math Off 4: Checkers
July 24, 2018 20:17 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBSadly Samuel did not make it to the final round of The Aperiodical’s Big Internet Math Off, but lucky for y’all in a fit of profound arrogance, as…
Math Off 3: Gerrymandering
July 19, 2018 15:14 - 9 minutes - 9.21 MBSadly Samuel did not make it to the semi-final round of The Aperiodical’s Big Internet Math Off, but lucky for y’all in a fit of profound arrogance, as…
Math Off Round 2: Quaternions
July 12, 2018 12:25 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBSadly Samuel did not make it to the second round of The Aperiodical’s Big Internet Math Off, but lucky for y’all in a fit of profound arrogance, as…
Math Off Round 1: Why Your Friends Have More Friends than You Do
July 02, 2018 09:48 - 8 minutes - 7.67 MBIt is time for you to vote for Samuel in the first round of the 1st ever Aperiodical.com Big Internet Math Off! In the first round Samuel is…
Girls Talk Math
May 31, 2018 23:24 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBOn this month’s episode of Relatively Prime we are excited to bring to you the story of Girls Talk Math. Girls Talk Math is a 2 week mathematics…
The Right Bucket
May 01, 2018 01:52 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBThis month’s Relatively Prime is all about classification. Samuel is joined by Fabian Müller of zbMath for a discussion of the Mathematics Subject Classification, the benefit of using…
Diegetic Plots: Chapter 3
March 31, 2018 23:21 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBIn this chapter of Diegetic Plots on Relatively Prime Larry Lesser shares the poem “The M Word” and there is a very unfortunate customer service call at Kroneckea.…
Tick & Lice & Relapsing & Fevers
February 28, 2018 20:10 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBOn this episode so Relatively Prime Samuel talks with former office mate at UNLV Cody Palmer. When this conversation was recorded Cody was a PhD student at the…
Science Sparring Society
January 31, 2018 23:14 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBSamuel has been feeling a bit nostalgic recently and was thinking about an old show we can almost guarantee you have never heard of, called Science Sparring Society.…
Formulaic Perfection
December 22, 2017 17:37 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBWe are happy to bring to you a special holiday episode of Relatively Prime during this festive period. Samuel is joined by old pals Katie, Peter, and Christian…
Cold and Flu
November 30, 2017 17:09 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBIt is that time of year where you, and everyone else, is coughing and sniffling and sneezing and generally getting gross germs all over the place. That…
Knotty Helix
October 31, 2017 14:17 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBSure DNA is important, some might even claim it is absolutely integral to life itself, but does it contain any interesting math? Samuel is joined by UC-Davis Professor…
Their Favorite Theorem
September 29, 2017 22:15 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBHave you ever wondered what mathematicans’ favorite theorems were? How about what food or music pairs perfectly with those theorems? Well whether your answer to those questions was…
Re District
August 31, 2017 01:38 - 44 minutes - 41 MBMathematics has been showing up in the news a lot more than usual lately. It has shown up in Slate, The New York Times, and The New Yorker…
All The Gerrys Mandered(Encore)
August 31, 2017 01:34 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBGerrymandering – the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting…
Outside the Equation
July 27, 2017 03:16 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBOn this episode of Relatively Prime is the other panel Samuel hosted at the 2017 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta. This panel was called Outside the Equation and…
Talking the Talk – Mathematics Communication
June 29, 2017 22:10 - 35 minutes - 33 MBMathematics is not always the easiest thing to talk or write about, especially when the audience is not other mathematicians. This doesn’t mean talking about math is impossible…
You Have the Right
May 26, 2017 19:29 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBThere are stories all the time about race and policing in the United States. They do not typically focus on search rates of traffic stops, but that is…
Steiner Biopsy
April 29, 2017 19:33 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBCancer is a truly terrible disease. We all know it too, in fact it is very likely not a person reading this right now who has not had their own…
#TryPod – The Other Half
March 24, 2017 21:37 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBSorry for the late episode this month, but your intrepid host and producer Samuel Hansen had to go and get himself concussed at his day job. This…
Origins LIVE!
February 16, 2017 16:58 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBWe live in a culture obsessed with the Origin Story, and not without reason. There is very rarely a story more fascinating than the one which tells…
On the Hill
January 16, 2017 16:37 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBWe are right in the middle of that time every four years when the United States of America focuses very intently on the government, the whole government and not…
Lottery Daze
December 21, 2016 14:16 - 30 minutes - 28 MBLottery Daze Welcome to the new season of Relatively Prime! There will be a few changes for the new season, primarily each episode will feature only a single…
Diegetic Plots: Chapter 2
February 24, 2016 22:41 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBDiegetic Plots: Chapter Two This is the final episode of the 2nd season of Relatively Prime. It is also the second chapter of the ongoing series Diegetic Plots.…
f(θ)=1-sin(θ)
February 17, 2016 18:11 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBf(θ)=1-sin(θ) If you ever want to conduct a quick social experiment on the status of mathematics in the world just get yourself a dating profile and mention on…
Principia Metropolica
February 11, 2016 06:00 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBPrincipia Metropolica Your host Samuel Hansen loves cities. Small Cities, Dense Cities, New Cities, Twin Cities, Reborn Cities, he doesn’t care what type of city cities. He loves…
Other Duties as Assigned
February 04, 2016 00:01 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBDownload the Episode Subscribe: iTunes or RSS Other Duties As Assigned Mathematician is an insanely broad job title It can encompass everyone from professors to government employees to…
Diegetic Plots: Chapter 1
January 28, 2016 06:13 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBDownload the Episode Subscribe: iTunes or RSS Diegetic Plots: Chapter One This episode of Relatively Prime is going to be delving into the humanistic side of mathematics. It…