Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1899: Kurt Gödel
Posted on · Episode: 1899 Kurt Gödel: A mathematician brings us down to earth. Today, a mathematician brings us down to earth.
Tag: mathematics
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1829: Multiple Authors
Posted on · Episode: 1829 Multiple authors, multiple problems: Whose work is this? Today, whose work is this?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1823: Zero
Posted on · Episode: 1823 Inventing zero. Today, we seek nothing.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1810: The Calculus
Posted on · Episode: 1810 Learning calculus — or maybe we knew it already. Today, let’s do calculus.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3219: Gravitational Transport
Posted on · Episode: 3219 Gravity-Powered Intracity Transport. Today, a wild ride.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1747: Sonya Kovalevsky
Posted on · Episode: 1747 Sonya Corvin-Krukovsky Kovalevsky: mathematician and author. Today, strange wallpaper, and an unexpected mathematician.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1741: The Witch of Agnesi
Posted on · Episode: 1741 The saintly Witch of Agnesi. Today, we meet the Witch of Agnesi.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2940: Polio and Mathematics
Posted on · Episode: 2940 Polio and Mathematics. Today, mathematicians ask, "should we rid the world of polio?"
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1657: Of Nature and Multiplication
Posted on · Episode: 1657 In which nature multiplies outcomes. Today, nature and multiplication.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1645: Pi
Posted on · Episode: 1645 Figuring out the value of Pi. Today, let’s talk about pi — and not the kind you eat.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1631: Borrowing a One
Posted on · Episode: 1631 Learning to subtract 49 from 62: more than meets the eye. Today, what is 49 from 62?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1618: Existence and Uniqueness
Posted on · Episode: 1618 Today we wonder whether something other than one solution exists. Today, the forgotten lecture in your math course.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2832: Claude-Louis Navier
Posted on · Episode: 2832 Math meets engineering: Claude-Louis Navier’s bridge. Today, building bridges.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1575: Fields and Continua
Posted on · Episode: 1575 Fields and continua: A secret art of engineering. Today, a look at a secret abstraction.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3184: The Knots of Peter Guthrie Tait
Posted on · Episode: 3184 The Knots of Peter Guthrie Tait. Today, unweaving a tangled web.