Maths Podcasts
Marc West
Monday, 05 November 2007 11:38 UTC
At Plus, we have just started podcasting, so this topic has been started to chat about, advertise, critique and comment upon the maths podcasts on your mp3 player.
To start off, the Plus Podcast brings you the latest news from the world of maths, plus interviews and discussions with leading mathematicians and scientists about the maths that is changing our lives. Each episode is about 15
minutes long.
You can subscribe to the podcast by searching for “Plus” in itunes, by subscribing to our podcast feed, or by downloading the mp3 files from the links below.
Four podcast episodes are now available for download.
Podcast 4, November 2007: Leonard Euler and maths communication
300 years since Leonard Euler’s birth – from the York Science Festival
We talk to Professor Chris Budd about the greatest mathematician of all – Leonard Euler. We also talk about maths communication, maths in the food industry and the best mathematical pickup lines.
Podcast 3, October 2007: Women in mathematics
We visit the European Women in Mathematics conference and talk to two leading mathematicians, Caroline Series and Cheryl Praeger.
Podcast 2, October 2007: The geometry of viruses
Reidun Twarock finds symmetry in viruses and tells us about the maths used to understand them. This podcast comes from the BA Science Festival in York.
Podcast 1, August 2007: Breaking the ice
We talk to Shahn Majid about a whole new geometry of space, find out about how mathematics is combating climate change, as well as all the latest news from the world of maths.
More information about the podcast can be found on the Plus podcast site
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Maths podcasts may be rare, but this does not mean they do not exist. Here are a couple of other ones.
- The Math Factor is one of the most popular maths podcasts and run by University of Arkansas Mathematics Professor Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Radio Journalist Kyle Kellams. Each week the team look at a new mathematical problem in an informative and entertaining way.
- Classic Mistake is a well produced podcast that deals with mistakes often made by mathematics students, such as 370000 = 3.7^5 and that if you finish an exam early, you should sit back and do nothing.
- Math Mutation looks at the weird and wonderful areas of mathematics that you would not hear about at school, such as 11-dimensional spaghetti monsters.
Other sciencey, sometimes mathsy podcasts we like are Bad Science, Mr Science and The Science Show
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