Talkdust
4 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago -Talkdust is a podcast for the mathematically curious, brought to you by the team behind Chalkdust, a magazine for the mathematically curious.
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Talkdust 4: Talking issue 09
April 04, 2019 00:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBThe presenters of this episode of Talkdust are Sean Jamshidi and Eleanor Doman. Music and editing by Matthew Scroggs, and announcements by Tom Rivlin. In this episode: Eleanor and Sean talk about the launch of issue 09. Stephen Muirhead tells us about his article in issue 09. Eleanor and Sean talk some more about the launch of issue 09. Eleanor and Sean play a game in which they try to describe mathematical words to each other and take the second place position on the leaderboard. ...
Talkdust 3: Talky Saturday
February 27, 2019 00:00 - 21 minutes - 29.1 MBThe presenters of this episode of Talkdust are TD Dang and Alex Bolton. Music and editing by Matthew Scroggs, and announcements by Tom Rivlin. In this episode: TD and Alex talk about Royal Institution masterclasses and Maths Fest, and encourage you use Google to find this video. TD interviews members of the Chalkdust team during Chalky Saturday. Alex tells TD about the chessboard puzzles that his Royal Institution masterclass is based on. TD and Alex play a game in which they try to...
Talkdust 2: Jason Lotalk
January 31, 2019 00:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBThe presenters of this episode of Talkdust are Belgin Seymenoğlu and Emily Maw. Music and editing by Matthew Scroggs, and announcements by Tom Rivlin. In this episode: Belgin and Emily talk about going to two very different conferences. Belgin and Emily talk to Jason Lotay, who is now Professor of Pure Maths at the University of Oxford but was a Professor at UCL at the time of recording. Belgin and Emily discuss a fact about angles in 3D shapes. Belgin and Emily play a game of No mo...
Talkdust 1: Talk and cheese
November 12, 2018 00:00 - 17 minutes - 21.1 MBThe presenters of this episode of Talkdust are Sean Jamshidi and TD Dang. Music and editing by Matthew Scroggs, and announcements by Tom Rivlin. In this episode: TD and Sean talk about being scooped and taking exams. TD and Sean talk to Tanmay Kulkarni, the author of Somewhere over the critical line from issue 08 of Chalkdust. TD explains a colouring problem she's been thinking about recently, and describes this picture to Sean: TD thinks of a number and Sean tries to guess it. ...