Engines Podcast
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.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3183: Mary Golda Ross
Posted on · Episode: 3183 Mary Golda Ross Rises. Today, reaching for the sky.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3182: Magical Shapes
Posted on · Episode: 3182 Looking at Magical Shapes. Today, it’s all in how you look at it.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1555: Hypatia Revisited
Posted on · Episode: 1555 Looking behind the stories for the real Hypatia. Today, looking for the person behind the story.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1549: Comptes Rendus, 1836
Posted on · Episode: 1549 Compte Rendus, 1836: a snapshot of science at high tide. Today, we read modern science when it was first being made.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3172: Dozenels
Posted on · Episode: 3172 F. Emerson Andrews and the Duodecimal Number System. Today, a call to action.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1484: Georg Cantor
Posted on · Episode: 1484 Georg Cantor, the man who counted beyond infinity. Today, we wonder about counting to infinity.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1475: Evariste Galois
Posted on · Episode: 1475 The tragic tale of Evariste Galois. Today, let’s tell the remarkable tale of Evariste Galois.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1472: Big Numbers
Posted on · Episode: 1472 New uses for huge numbers. Today, big numbers find new meaning.
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UH Conference Focuses On Drawing More Hispanic Students Into STEM Fields
Posted on · Despite growing population numbers, Hispanics are under-represented in STEM education programs. Why?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1465: The Cancer Cluster Problem
Posted on · Episode: 1465 In which random statistical clusters look significant. Today, we flip six heads in a row.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1459: Teaching and Ambiguity
Posted on · Episode: 1459 A tongue-tied attempt to say what teaching is. Today, teaching and ambiguity.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1406: Medieval Age of Reasoning
Posted on · Episode: 1406 The end of the medieval age of reason. Today, a brief bright era in medieval Europe.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3139: Maryam Mirzakhani
Posted on · Episode: 3139 Maryam Mirzakhani: A life in Mathematics. Today, let’s talk about the Iranian-American mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1379: Frank and Peter Griffin
Posted on · Episode: 1379 Frank and Peter Griffin: teaching calculus. Today, an obituary brings back memories.