Engines Podcast
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.
Tag: mathematics
Engines Podcast
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?
Engines Podcast
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.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2832: Claude-Louis Navier
Posted on · Episode: 2832 Math meets engineering: Claude-Louis Navier’s bridge. Today, building bridges.
Engines Podcast
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.
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.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3183: Mary Golda Ross
Posted on · Episode: 3183 Mary Golda Ross Rises. Today, reaching for the sky.
Engines Podcast
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.
Engines Podcast
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.
Engines Podcast
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.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3172: Dozenels
Posted on · Episode: 3172 F. Emerson Andrews and the Duodecimal Number System. Today, a call to action.
Engines Podcast
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.
Engines Podcast
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.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1472: Big Numbers
Posted on · Episode: 1472 New uses for huge numbers. Today, big numbers find new meaning.
Houston Matters
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?