popular math

 

 

Popular Math

I have a blog which I update every now and then. You can also follow me on Twitter (@kjosic).

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"

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Current Address: Department of Mathematics, PGH Building, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-3008
Phone: (713) 743-3500 - Fax: (713) 743-3505


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