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Breaking Math Podcast

Breaking Math is a podcast that aims to make math accessible to everyone, and make it enjoyable. Every other week, topics such as chaos theory, forbidden formulas, and more will be covered in detail. ... Read more

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38: The Great Stratagem Heist (Game Theory: Iterated Elimination of Dominated Strategies)

38: The Great Stratagem Heist (Game Theory: Iterated Elimination of Dominated Strategies)

Game theory is all about decision-making and how it is impacted by choice of strategy, and a strategy is a decision that... Read more

23 Apr 2019

33mins

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37: The One Where They Parody Saw [audio fixed again] (Game Theory)

37: The One Where They Parody Saw [audio fixed again] (Game Theory)

Hello listeners. You don't know me, but I know you. I want to play a game. In your ears are two earbuds. Connected to th... Read more

25 Feb 2019

41mins

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3: TMI (Information Theory)

3: TMI (Information Theory)

“ABABABABABABABAB”. How much information was that? You may say “sixteen letters worth”, but is that the true answer? You... Read more

7 Feb 2017

47mins

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44: Vestigial Math (Math That Is Not Used like It Used to Be)

44: Vestigial Math (Math That Is Not Used like It Used to Be)

Mathematics, like any intellectual pursuit, is a constantly-evolving field; and, like any evolving field, there are both... Read more

3 Nov 2019

38mins

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5: Language of the Universe (Relationship Between Physics and Math)

5: Language of the Universe (Relationship Between Physics and Math)

1948. A flash, followed by an explosion. Made possible by months of mathematical computation, the splitting of the atom ... Read more

7 Mar 2017

48mins

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30: The Abyss (Part One; Black Holes)

30: The Abyss (Part One; Black Holes)

The idea of something that is inescapable, at first glance, seems to violate our sense of freedom. This sense of freedom... Read more

2 Aug 2018

52mins

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4: Digital Evolution (Digital Computing)

4: Digital Evolution (Digital Computing)

We live in an era of unprecedented change, and the tip of the spear of this era of change is currently the digital revol... Read more

21 Feb 2017

53mins

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10: Cryptomath (Cryptography)

10: Cryptomath (Cryptography)

Language and communication is a huge part of what it means to be a person, and a large part of this importance is the ab... Read more

16 May 2017

1hr 15mins

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21: Einstein's Biggest Idea (General Relativity)

21: Einstein's Biggest Idea (General Relativity)

Some see the world of thought divided into two types of ideas: evolutionary and revolutionary ideas. However, the truth ... Read more

4 Dec 2017

1hr 4mins

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28: Bell's Infamous Theorem (Bell's Theorem)

28: Bell's Infamous Theorem (Bell's Theorem)

The history of physics as a natural science is filled with examples of when an experiment will demonstrate something or ... Read more

19 Jun 2018

35mins

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18: Frequency (Fourier and Related Analyses)

18: Frequency (Fourier and Related Analyses)

Duration and proximity are, as demonstrated by Fourier and later Einstein and Heisenberg, very closely related propertie... Read more

11 Oct 2017

45mins

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15: Consciousness

15: Consciousness

What does it mean to be a good person? What does it mean to make a mistake? These are questions which we are not going t... Read more

30 Jul 2017

1hr 2mins

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P2: Walk the Dog (Calculus: Chain Rule)

P2: Walk the Dog (Calculus: Chain Rule)

Learn more about calculus, derivatives, and the chain rule with this Problem Episode about you walking your (perhaps fic... Read more

30 Oct 2019

21mins

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24: Language and Entropy (Information Theory in Language)

24: Language and Entropy (Information Theory in Language)

Information theory was founded in 1948 by Claude Shannon, and is a way of both qualitatively and quantitatively describi... Read more

7 Mar 2018

46mins

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17: Navier Stoked (Vector Calculus and Navier-Stokes Equations)

17: Navier Stoked (Vector Calculus and Navier-Stokes Equations)

From our first breath of the day to brushing our teeth to washing our faces to our first sip of coffee, and even in the ... Read more

5 Oct 2017

1hr 1min

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12: Math Factory (Algorithms)

12: Math Factory (Algorithms)

In a universe where everything is representable by information, what does it mean to interact with that world? When you ... Read more

13 Jun 2017

52mins

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36: The Most Boring Episode Ever. (Math Games)

36: The Most Boring Episode Ever. (Math Games)

Math is a gravely serious topic which has been traditionally been done by stodgy people behind closed doors, and it cann... Read more

23 Nov 2018

50mins

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11: A Culture of Hacking (Hacker Culture)

11: A Culture of Hacking (Hacker Culture)

The culture of mathematics is a strange topic. It is almost as important to the history of mathematics as the theorems t... Read more

31 May 2017

1hr 1min

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14: Artificial Thought (Neural Networks)

14: Artificial Thought (Neural Networks)

Go to www.brilliant.org/breakingmathpodcast to learn neural networks, everyday physics, computer science fundamentals, t... Read more

11 Jul 2017

1hr 7mins

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23: Don't Touch My Circles! (Geometry)

23: Don't Touch My Circles! (Geometry)

In the study of mathematics, there are many abstractions that we deal with. For example, we deal with the notion of a re... Read more

15 Jan 2018

54mins

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