Joseph Fourier, the Heat Equation and the Age of the Earth
Joseph Bennish, Professor Emeritus of California State University, Long Beach, joins us for an excursion into physics and some of the mathematics it inspired. Joseph Fourier straddled mathematics and ...
22 Mar 202317min
The Ten Most Important Theorems in Mathematics, Part II
Jim Stein, Professor Emeritus of CSULS, returns to complete his (admittedly subjective) list of the ten greatest math theorems of all time, with fascinating insights and anecdotes for each. Last time ...
22 Feb 202315min
The Ten Most Important Theorems in Mathematics, Part I
Jim Stein, Professor Emeritus of CSULB, presents his very subjective list of what he believes are the ten most important theorems, with several runners up. These theorems cover a broad range of mathem...
25 Jan 202325min
Surprisingly Better than 50-50
Jim Stein, Professor Emeritus of California State University Long Beach, discusses some bets that appear to be 50-50, but can have better odds with a tiny amount of seemingly useless information. Blac...
28 Des 202218min
Fascinating Fractals
Jeanne Lazzarini joins us again to discuss fractals, a way to investigate the roughness that we see in nature, as opposed to the smoothness of standard mathematics. Fractals are built of iterated patt...
23 Nov 202221min
Approximation by Rationals: A New Focus
Joseph Bennish, Prof. Emeritus of CSULB, describes the field of Diophantine approximation, which started in the 19th Century with questions about how well irrational numbers can be approximated by rat...
26 Okt 202221min
Tessellations
Jeanne Lazzarini, a math education specialist, returns to discuss tessellations and tiling in the works of Escher, Penrose, ancient artists and nature. We go beyond the familiar square or hexagonal ti...
28 Sep 202220min
Rational, Irrational and Transcendental Numbers
Joseph Bennish returns to take us beyond the rational numbers we usually use to numbers that have been given names that indicate they're crazy or other-worldly. The Greeks were shocked to discover irr...
24 Aug 202221min
