Meet the young Davidson Fellowship winners
Ethan Zhao and Edward Yu are the winners in mathematics of the prestigious Davidson Fellow Scholarships, awarded based on projects completed by students under 18. Ethan's project was on learning model...
22 Nov 202314min
Gödel's Incompleteness, Fundamental Truths, and Reasoning in Math and Law
Lawyer Lee Kraftchick discusses the search for truth and basic principles in the legal community and the surprising parallels and similarities with the same search in the math community. Mathematical ...
25 Okt 202322min
Math and the Law
Lee Kraftchick, a lawyer with a math degree, discusses some of the surprising parallels between the fields. Math is used directly to make statistical arguments to rule out random chance as a cause. He...
27 Sep 202320min
Fabulous Fibonacci
Jeanne Lazzarini looks for math in the real world and finds the Fibonacci sequence and the closely related Golden Ratio. These appear as we examine plants, bees, rabbits, flowers, fruit, and the human...
23 Aug 202320min
Vowels and Sounds and a Little Calculus
Brian Katz, from California State University Long Beach, invites us to explore the various layers of ordinary sounds, informed by a little calculus. The limited frequencies that come out of the wave e...
26 Jul 202311min
The Hat: A Newly Discovered "Ein-stein" Tessellation Tile
Jeanne Lazzarini, who has visited us before to talk about tessellations, discusses a new mathematical discovery that even earned a mention on Jimmy Kimmel. It's a shape that can be used to fill the pl...
28 Jun 202313min
Interfacing Music and Mathematics
Lawrence Udeigwe, associate professor of mathematics at Manhattan College and an MLK Visiting Associate Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, is both a mathematician and a musician. We dis...
24 Mai 202321min
Fourier Analysis: It's Not Just for Differential Equations
Joseph Bennish returns to dig into the math behind the Fourier Analysis we discussed last time. Specifically, it allows us to express any function in terms of sines and cosines. Fourier analysis appea...
26 Apr 202318min
