Shows
Episode 13: Ivars Peterson
Mar 11th
(via etsu.edu)
On today’s episode Samuel Hansen has a conversation with noted mathematical journalist, Director of Publications and Communications for the Mathematical Association of America, and, most importantly, the Mathematical Tourist Ivars Peterson. You can find out more about Ivars Peterson on his website and can find his columns at the MAA.
Episode 38: Plastics and Constants
Mar 10th
Samuel Hansen is still the host, and well over his ennui of last week, and has Nathan Rowe and Christopher Bates on to talk constants in honor of Pi Day
Episode 37: Is This the End?
Mar 7th
Samuel Hansen hosts, with regrets, yet another episode of Combinations and Permutations, this time about Polyhedra.
Episode 12: Brian Conrey
Mar 2nd
(via aimmath.org)
For today’s episode of Strongly Connected Components Samuel Hansen called up director of the American Institute of Mathematics Brian Conrey. Together they talked about the AIM library, whymath circles and square mathematicians are a good thing, and just what the math castle is. To find out more about Brian Conrey visit his website and to find out more about AIM just click here.
Video of the Castle
Combinations and Permutations Episode 36: Master of Us All
Feb 25th
On this weeks podcast Samuel Hansen, Juan Mariscal, Anthony Sellari, and Nathan Rowe get together to discuss their master: Euler.
Combinations and Permutations Episode 35: Despotisms BAD
Feb 11th
Samuel Hansen finally managed to get three other people, Brandon Metz, Cody Palmer, and Juan Mariscal, together in a room to talk about mathematics. In another episode that takes place in thought experiment world, they talk about mathematics and despotisms.
Strongly Connected Components Episode 11: Joseph Gallian
Feb 9th
Joseph Gallian is a Mathematics Professor at the university of Minnesota-Duluth. Samuel Hanse spoke with him at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Francisco about his text book Contemporary Abstract Algebra, the mathematics movie Hard Problems he executive produced, how he cracked the Driver’s License code, and more about the Beatles than you could think would be on a math podcast. You can find out more about Professor Gallian at his website.
Strongly Connected Components Episode 10: Richard Stanley
Feb 3rd
Samuel Hansen caught up with professor Richard Stanley at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco, where they talked about the colloquium lectures he was to give, over 100 different definitions of the Catalan Numbers, and just what the path is from wanting to be a ventriloquist to becoming a mathematician. You can find Professors Stanly’s foundational book on Enumerative Combinatorics here and find out more about him at his website.
Strongly Connected Components Episode 9: Steve Strogatz
Jan 26th
Samuel Hansen spoke with Steven Strogatz from Cornell University at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Francisco where Professor Strogatz presented a talk about his fantastic(review soon to come) new book The Calculus of Friendship. They spoke about: Breadth versus Depth, what a friendship based on mathematics can be, and Samuel even gets Steven to retell a Radio Lab story. To find out more about Steven Strogatz please visit his website.
Strongly Connected Components Episode 8: Olga Holtz
Jan 18th
Olga Holtz is a professor at University of California Berkley and Technischen Universität Berlin. Samuel Hansen spoke with Professor Holtz at the 2010 Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Francisco, California where she was an invited speaker. They discussed: her talk in Zonotopal Algebra, the difference between working in the USA and Germany, and the bottleneck of communication. You can find out more about Professor Holtz by visiting her webpage.
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