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Breaking Math Podcast

Hosted by Gabriel Hesch and Autumn Phaneuf, who have advanced degrees in electrical engineering and

Episodes

Total: 162

A numerical base is a system of representing numbers using a sequence of symbols. However, like any

50: Episode "101" (Bases)

2020/8/31

Numbering was originally done with tally marks: the number of tally marks indicated the number of it

Machines have been used to simplify labor since time immemorial, and simplify thought in the last fe

Machines, during the lifetime of anyone who is listening to this, have advanced and revolutionized t

Join Gabriel and Sofía as they delve into some introductory calculus concepts.[Featuring: Sofía Baca

Time is something that everyone has an idea of, but is hard to describe. Roughly, the arrow of time

Learn more about radiative forcing, the environment, and how global temperature changes with atmosph

Since time immemorial, blacksmiths have known that the hotter metal gets, the more it glows: it star

Climate change is an issue that has become frighteningly more relevant in recent years, and because

Mathematics, like any intellectual pursuit, is a constantly-evolving field; and, like any evolving f

Learn more about calculus, derivatives, and the chain rule with this Problem Episode about you walki

Ben Orlin has been a guest on the show before. He got famous with a blog called 'Math With Bad Drawi

P1: Peano Addition

2019/9/29

On this problem episode, join Sofía and guest Diane Baca to learn about what an early attempt to for

Statistics is a field that is considered boring by a lot of people, including a huge amount of mathe

Children who are being taught mathematics often balk at the idea of negative numbers, thinking them

We communicate every day through languages; not only human languages, but other things that could be

Game theory is all about decision-making and how it is impacted by choice of strategy, and a strateg

Hello listeners. You don't know me, but I know you. I want to play a game. In your ears are two earb

Math is a gravely serious topic which has been traditionally been done by stodgy people behind close

Centuries ago, there began something of a curiosity between mathematicians that didn't really amount