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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 1 hour 51 minutes
episode 62: Dave Auckly, et al., "Inspiring Mathematics: Lessons from the Navajo Nation Math Circles" (AMS, 2019)
An interview with Dave Auckly, Amanda Serenevy, and Henry Fowler
episode 61: Jonas Peters and Nicolai Meinshausen, "The Raven's Hat: Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games" (MIT Press, 2021)
An interview with Jonas Peters
episode 24: Eugenia Cheng, "x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender" (Basic Book, 2020)
An interview with Eugenia Cheng
episode 59: J. Rosenhouse, "Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles" (Princeton UP, 2020)
An interview with Jennifer Beineke and Jason Rosenhouse
episode 58: Snezana Lawrence, "A New Year's Present from a Mathematician" (CRC Press, 2019)
An interview with Snezana Lawrence
episode 57: James D. Stein, "The Fate of Schrodinger's Cat: Using Math and Computers to Explore the Counterintuitive" (World Scientific, 2020)
Stein shows how high-school algebra and basic probability theory, with the invaluable assistance of computer simulations, can be used to investigate both the intuitive and the counterintuitive....
episode 65: Anna Weltman, "Supermath: The Power of Numbers for Good and Evil" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Weltman surveys a number of ways this conception of mathematics has informed scientific undertakings and public policies, not to mention our everyday behaviors, and makes a powerful case for reevaluating its assumptions...
episode 55: Alfred S. Posamentier, "The Joy of Geometry" (Prometheus, 2020)
Alfred S. Posamentier's The Joy of Geometry (Prometheus, 2020) is a book for someone who has taken geometry but wants to go further...
episode 54: Susan D'Agostino, "How to Free Your Inner Mathematician: Notes on Mathematics and Life" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Doing mathematics can be stimulating, deep, and sometimes fantastic. It can also be frustrating, impenetrable, and at times dispiriting. In her new collection of essays, writer and mathematician Susan D'Agostino shows how math itself can be a useful guide through these experiences...
episode 53: Alfred Posamentier, "Mathematics Entertainment for the Millions" (World Scientific Publishing, 2020)
In reading this book, it occurred to me that it might equally well have been entitled Millions of Mathematical Entertainments...