Popular Math
I contribute to the radio show”Engines of our Ingenuity” on KUHF. Here is a selection of episodes:
- Episode No. 2487: “VON NEUMAN, COMPUTERS & BRAINS”
- Episode No. 2502: “COMPUTER PROOFS”
- Episode No. 2514: “LINEAR ALGEBRA AND NETFLIX”
- Episode No. 2544: “FACE RECOGNITION”
- Episode No. 2553: “COMPLEXITY AND EMERGENCE”
- Episode No. 2557: “THE GOOGLE RANKING ALGORITHM”
- Episode No. 2579: “MUSIC AND MATHEMATICS”
- Episode No. 2597: “HISTORY AND MATH”
- Episode No. 2613: “CAN WE HEAR SHAPES?”
- Episode No. 2658: “MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER MATHEMATICS”
- Episode No. 2666: “ALAN TURING”
- Episode No. 2684: “WILL COMPUTERS REPLACE SCIENTISTS”
- Episode No. 2707: “MATHEMATICAL MODELING”
- Episode No. 2719: “THE MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE”
- Episode No. 2740: “THE MATHEMATICS OF SLOT MACHINES”
- Episode No. 2754: “CULTUROMICS”
- Episode No. 2765: “THE MECHANICAL TURK”
- Episode No. 2782: “GROUP DECISION MAKING”
- Episode No. 2790: “VACCINE SCARES”
- Episode No. 2815: “HOW IDEAS SPREAD”
- Episode No. 2817: “CREATIVITY”
- Episode No. 2862: “RANDOMNESS”
- Episode No. 2864: “BAYES’ THEOREM”
- Episode No. 2885: “BIG NUMBERS”
- Episode No. 2901: “NORBERT WIENER AND CYBERNETICS”
- Episode No. 2927: “DUAL INHERITANCE THEORY”
- Episode No. 2955: “THE FRIENDSHIP PARADOX”
- Episode No. 2957: “THE POWER OF CITIES”
- Episode No. 2998: “EVOLUTION IN A TEST TUBE”
- Episode No. 3016: “SIMPSON’S PARADOX”
- Episode No. 3018: “COMPRESSED SENSING”
- Episode No. 3044: “RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS”
- Episode No. 3050: “SPACE TRAVEL”
- Episode No. 3071: “THE UNREASONABLE EFFECTIVENESS OF MATHEMATICS”
- Episode No. 3072: “WILLIAM GOSSET”
- Episode No. 3107: “EXPECTATIONS OF BRILLIANCE”
- Episode No. 3109: “AUMANN’S THEOREM”
- Episode No. 3139: “MARYAM MIRZAKHANI”
- Episode No. 3203: “SHAPE OF PROTEIN”
- Episode No. 3229: “THE MATHEMATICS OF HIV INFECTIONS”
- Episode No. 3234: “THE MOVING SOFA PROBLEM”
- Episode No. 3273: “THE P VS NP PROBLEM”
- Episode No. 3274: “THE NEWCOMB PARADOX”
- Episode No. 3297: “MODELING THE WORLD”
- Episode No. 3299: “VERNOR VINGE SEES THE FUTURE”
- Episode No. 3301: “GUSTAV FECHNER AND THE DAWN OF PSYCHOPHYSICS”
- Episode No. 3308: “BOARD GAMES”
- Episode No. 3341: “THE MCCULLOCH-PITTS MODEL”
- Episode No. 3343: “FRANK ROSENBLATT’S PERCEPTRON”