My Favorite Theorem podcast

Episode 68 - Rekha Thomas

8/7/2021

My Favorite Theorem

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Mathematician Rekha Thomas likes things to have applications, and nothing fits that bill better than linear algebra. In this episode we learn that the singular value decomposition gives us a lot more information than you might have realized. Also, migratory birds.

Altri episodi di "My Favorite Theorem"

Episode 91 - Karen Saxe
3/4/2024
34:17
Karen Saxe is an analyst who spends her days representing mathematics on Capitol Hill. She really likes the isoperimetric inequality and its many uses. Also tennis.
Episode 90 - Corrine Yap
23/1/2024
33:46
Corrine Yap loves math, graph theory in particular, and also loves to perform her one-person play about Sonya Kovalevskaya. Also, tofu.
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Episode 89 - Allison Henrich
12/11/2023
35:04
Allison Henrich studies knots and her favorite theorem is about how one might unknot a knot. Also, music.
Episode 88 - Tom Edgar
9/10/2023
26:15
We all know the (probably apocryphal) story of Gauss adding up the first 100 positive integers as a child. Well, Tom Edgar really likes this result and will be happy to tell you about dozens of different ways to prove it. Also, Groundhog Day.
Episode 87 - Tatiana Toro
7/9/2023
23:42
Tatiana Toro is a geometer and therefore loves the ur-theorem of geometry, "due" to Pythagoras. She also likes to walk.
Episode 86 - Sarah Hart
20/7/2023
41:14
Gresham Professor of Geometry Sarah Hart likes cycloids and we talk at length about all their fascinating properties. Also, Moby Dick (or The Whale).
Episode 85 - Matthew Kahle
2/6/2023
30:49
Euler's polyhedral formula continues to amaze Matthew Kahle as he finds it showing up in different places in mathematics. Also, Bach.
Episode 84 - The Students of TCU
2/5/2023
50:21
Kevin visited Texas Christian University in March and recorded this episode with some math students. Excellent theorems and pairings.
Episode 83 - Cihan Bahran
16/2/2023
26:52
Cihan Bahran has a popular twitter feed in which he shares surprising theorems. His favorite? Matrix mortality is undecidable.
Episode 82 - Juliette Bruce
30/12/2022
29:20
Juliette Bruce is an algebraic geometer who loves to think about embedding curves in projective space. Also mountaineering.

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