
Breaking Math Podcast
Autumn Phaneuf & Noah Giansiracusa
Breaking Math is a deep-dive science, technology, engineering, AI, and mathematics podcast that explores the world through the lens of logic, patterns, and critical thinking. Hosted by Autumn Phaneuf, an expert in industrial engineering, operations research, and applied mathematics, and Noah Giansiracusa, a mathematician and leading voice in algorithmic literacy and technology ethics, the show is dedicated to uncovering the mathematical structures behind science, technology, and the systems shap...
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Episodes (189)
69: An Interview with Michael Brooks, Author of "The Art of More: How Mathematic...
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P12: O My God (Big O Notation)
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68: LOL!!! SO RANDOM (Random Variables)
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67: Wrath of Math (Mathematics Used Unwisely)
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P11: Feeling Lucky? (Probability and Intuition)
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66: Hayhoe, Let's Go! (An Interview With Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe)
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P10: Chivalry is Dead (Knights and Knaves #1)
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65: An Interview with Author Ian Stewart (Book About Everyday Math)
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64: What Projection Is This? (Map Projections)
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RR36: The Most Boring Episode Ever (Rerun: Math Games)
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63: Broken Voting Systems (Voting Systems and Paradoxes)
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62: The Atom Bomb of Information Operations (An Interview with John Fuisz of Ver...
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61: Look at this Graph! (Graph Theory)
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P9: Give or Take (Back-of-the-Envelope Estimates / Fermi Problems)
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60: HAMILTON! [But Not the Musical] (Quaternions)
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59: A Good Source of Fibers (Fiber Bundles)
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58: Bringing Curvy Back (Gaussian Curvature)
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P8: Tangent Tango (Morikawa's Recently Solved Problem)
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P7: Root for Squares (Irrationality of the Square Root of Two)
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57: You Said How Much?! (Measure Theory)
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P6: How Many Angles in a Circle? (Curvature; Euclidean Geometry)
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56: More Sheep than You Can Count (Transfinite Cardinal Numbers)
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55: Order in the Court (Transfinite Ordinal Numbers)
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54: Oodles (Large Numbers)
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53: Big Brain Time (An Interview with Peter Zeidman from the UCL Institute of Ne...
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52: Round (Circles and Spheres)
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P5: All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Fractional Base Proof)
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51: Episode "-2,0,1" (Bases; Exotic Bases)
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50: Episode "101" (Bases)
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49: Thinking Machines II (Techniques in Artificial Intelligence)
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48: Thinking Machines (Philosophical Basis of Artificial Intelligence)
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P4: Go with the Flow (Conceptual Calculus: Related Rates of Change)
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47: Blast to the Past (Retrocausality)
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P3: Radiativeforcenado (Radiative Forcing)
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46: Earth Irradiated (the Greenhouse Effect)
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45: Climate Denialism and Cranky Uncles (Interview with John Cook of Skeptical S...
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44: Vestigial Math (Math That Is Not Used like It Used to Be)
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P2: Walk the Dog (Calculus: Chain Rule)
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43: Interview II with Author Ben Orlin (Change is the Only Constant: the Wisdom...
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P1: Peano Addition
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42: Maybe? (Probability and Statistics)
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41: Reality Is More Than Complex (Group Theory and Physics)
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39: Syntax Matters: Syntax... Matters? (Formal Grammar)
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38: The Great Stratagem Heist (Game Theory: Iterated Elimination of Dominated St...
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37: The One Where They Parody Saw [audio fixed again] (Game Theory)
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36: The Most Boring Episode Ever. (Math Games)
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35: Please Be Discrete (Discrete Math)
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34: An Interview with Mathbot.com's JW Weatherman
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33: Interview with Math with Bad Drawings (Ben Orlin)
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32X: Black Hole Heist (Comedy Sketch)
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