All Episodes

A.I. and Materials Discovery - an Interview with Taylor Sparks

In Memory of Sofia Baca, Cofounder and cohost of Breaking Math

Correct. Now Try Again (Multiple Approaches to the Same Problem)

Physical Dimension (Dimensional Analysis)

1 2 3 (Counting)

Perpetual Notion (Entropy and Thermodynamics)

An Interview with Christopher Roblesz of MathNMore

Joule Pay for This! (Energy)

Existential Physics with Sabine Hossenfelder (Author Interview)

Lights, Camera, Action! (3D Computer Graphics: Part I)

Materialism: a Material Science Podcast Podcast Episode (Interview with Taylor Sparks)

The Lifestyles of the Mathematical and Famous (an Interview with Author Robert Black)

What's the Matter? An Interview with Chris Cogswell of the Mad Scientist Podcast (Material Science)

Episode 70.1 of Breaking Math Podcast (Self-Reference)

This Episode Intentionally Left Blank

An Interview with Michael Brooks, Author of "The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization"

O My God (Big O Notation)

LOL!!! SO RANDOM (Random Variables)

Wrath of Math (Mathematics Used Unwisely)

Feeling Lucky? (Probability and Intuition)

Hayhoe, Let's Go! (An Interview With Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe)

Chivalry is Dead (Knights and Knaves #1)

An Interview with Author Ian Stewart (Book About Everyday Math)

What Projection Is This? (Map Projections)

RR36: The Most Boring Episode Ever (Rerun: Math Games)

Broken Voting Systems (Voting Systems and Paradoxes)

The Atom Bomb of Information Operations (An Interview with John Fuisz of Veriphix)

Look at this Graph! (Graph Theory)

Give or Take (Back-of-the-Envelope Estimates / Fermi Problems)

HAMILTON! [But Not the Musical] (Quaternions)

A Good Source of Fibers (Fiber Bundles)

Bringing Curvy Back (Gaussian Curvature)

Tangent Tango (Morikawa's Recently Solved Problem)

Root for Squares (Irrationality of the Square Root of Two)

You Said How Much?! (Measure Theory)

How Many Angles in a Circle? (Curvature; Euclidean Geometry)

More Sheep than You Can Count (Transfinite Cardinal Numbers)

55: Order in the Court (Transfinite Ordinal Numbers)

54: Oodles (Large Numbers)

53: Big Brain Time (An Interview with Peter Zeidman from the UCL Institute of Neurology)

52: Round (Circles and Spheres)

P5: All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Fractional Base Proof)

51: Episode "-2,0,1" (Bases; Exotic Bases)

50: Episode "101" (Bases)

49: Thinking Machines II (Techniques in Artificial Intelligence)

48: Thinking Machines (Philosophical Basis of Artificial Intelligence)

P4: Go with the Flow (Conceptual Calculus: Related Rates of Change)

47: Blast to the Past (Retrocausality)

P3: Radiativeforcenado (Radiative Forcing)

46: Earth Irradiated (the Greenhouse Effect)

45: Climate Denialism and Cranky Uncles (Interview with John Cook of Skeptical Science)

44: Vestigial Math (Math That Is Not Used like It Used to Be)

P2: Walk the Dog (Calculus: Chain Rule)

43: Interview II with Author Ben Orlin (Change is the Only Constant: the Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World)

P1: Peano Addition

42: Maybe? (Probability and Statistics)

41: Reality Is More Than Complex (Group Theory and Physics)

39: Syntax Matters: Syntax... Matters? (Formal Grammar)

38: The Great Stratagem Heist (Game Theory: Iterated Elimination of Dominated Strategies)

37: The One Where They Parody Saw [audio fixed again] (Game Theory)

36: The Most Boring Episode Ever. (Math Games)

35: Please Be Discrete (Discrete Math)

34: An Interview with Mathbot.com's JW Weatherman

33: Interview with Math with Bad Drawings (Ben Orlin)

32X: Black Hole Heist (Comedy Sketch)

32: Gaze into the Abyss (Part Three; Black Holes)

31: Into the Abyss (Part Two; Black Holes)

30: The Abyss (Part One; Black Holes)

29: War

28: Bell's Infamous Theorem (Bell's Theorem)

27: Peer Pressure (Cellular Automata)

26: Infinity Shades of Grey (Paradox)

25: Pandemic Panic (Epidemiology)

24: Language and Entropy (Information Theory in Language)

23: Don't Touch My Circles! (Geometry)

22: Incomplet (Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid: Chapter IV Discussion)

21: Einstein's Biggest Idea (General Relativity)

20: Rational (Ratios)

19: Tune of the Hickory Stick (Beginning to Intermediate Math Education)

18: Frequency (Fourier and Related Analyses)

17: Navier Stoked (Vector Calculus and Navier-Stokes Equations)

BFNB2: Thought for Food (Discussion about Learning)

BFNB1: Food for Thought (Discussion about Learning)

Minisode 0.6: Four Problems

15: Consciousness

Minisode 0.5: ___forNon___

14: Artificial Thought (Neural Networks)

13: Math and Prison Riots (Interview with Frank Salas)

12: Math Factory (Algorithms)

11: A Culture of Hacking (Hacker Culture)

10: Cryptomath (Cryptography)

9: Humanity 2.0 (Transhumanism)

Minisode 0.4: Comin' Up Next

Minisode 0.3: Lights, Camera, Action!

8: Evolution and Engineering (Genetic Algorithms)

Minisode 0.2: What's Up, Bangalore?

7: QED? Prove it. (Proofs)

Minisode 0.1: Hypercubes and Other Stranger Things

6: Word (Linguistics)

5: Language of the Universe (Relationship Between Physics and Math)