64: What Projection Is This? (Map Projections)
The world is a big place with a lot of wonderful things in it. The world also happens to be spherical, which can make getting to those things a challe...
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RR36: The Most Boring Episode Ever (Rerun: Math Games)
This is a rerun of one of our favorite episodes! We hope that you enjoy it if you haven't listened to it yet. We'll be back next week with new content...
63: Broken Voting Systems (Voting Systems and Paradoxes)
Voting systems are, in modern times, essential to the way that large-scale decisions are made. The concept of voicing an opinion to be, hopefully, con...
62: The Atom Bomb of Information Operations (An Interview with John Fuisz of Veriphix)
Forecasting is a constantly evolving science, and has been applied to complex systems; everything from the weather, to determining what customers migh...
RR38: The Great Stratagem Heist (Game Theory: Iterated Elimination of Dominated Strategies)
This is a rerun of one of our favorite episodes while we change our studio around. Game theory is all about decision-making and how it is impacted by ...
61: Look at this Graph! (Graph Theory)
In mathematics, nature is a constant driving inspiration; mathematicians are part of nature, so this is natural. A huge part of nature is the idea of ...
P9: Give or Take (Back-of-the-Envelope Estimates / Fermi Problems)
How many piano tuners are there in New York City? How much cheese is there in Delaware? And how can you find out? All of this and more on this problem...
60: HAMILTON! [But Not the Musical] (Quaternions)
i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk = -1. This deceptively simple formula, discovered by Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1843, led to a revolution in ...
59: A Good Source of Fibers (Fiber Bundles)
Mathematics is full of all sorts of objects that can be difficult to comprehend. For example, if we take a slip of paper and glue it to itself, we can...
58: Bringing Curvy Back (Gaussian Curvature)
In introductory geometry classes, many of the objects dealt with can be considered 'elementary' in nature; things like tetrahedrons, spheres, cylinder...