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Interviews with Mathematicians about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/mathematics
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Scientists Cooperate while Humanists Ruminate (EF, JP)
Apr 17 • 41m
Grace Lindsay, "Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Mar 20 • 51m
Karenleigh A. Overmann, "The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
Jan 28 • 10m
Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023)
Dec 19, 2024 • 40m
Michael Gavin, "Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Sep 9, 2024 • 54m
Al Posamentier and Christian Speitzer, “The Mathematics of Everyday Life” (Prometheus Books, 2018)
Sep 8, 2024 • 54m
Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 2, 2024 • 52m
David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jul 8, 2024 • 1h 18m
Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, "Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools" (MIT Press, 2024)
Jun 24, 2024 • 1h 1m
Paulina Rowinska, "Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers" (Pan Macmillan, 2024)
Jun 19, 2024 • 56m
David S. Richeson, "Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2019)
May 28, 2024 • 54m
Thomas A. Garrity, "All the Math You Missed (But Need to Know for Graduate School)" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
May 10, 2024 • 50m
Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Apr 15, 2024 • 1h 20m
Ismar Volić, "Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Feb 1, 2024 • 39m
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023 • 32m
Barbara Sattler, "The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought: Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Aug 28, 2023 • 1h 13m
Lawrence Goldman, "Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 25, 2023 • 1h 31m
Milo Beckman, "Math Without Numbers" (Dutton, 2020)
Aug 17, 2023 • 55m
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
Jul 31, 2023 • 16m
Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 7, 2023 • 36m
Justin L. Bergner, "Solving the Price Is Right: How Mathematics Can Improve Your Decisions On and Off the Set of America's Celebrated Game Show" (Prometheus Books, 2023)
Apr 19, 2023 • 54m
Shelly M. Jones, "Women Who Count: Honoring African American Women Mathematicians" (American Mathematical Society, 2019)
Apr 16, 2023 • 56m
Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire and A Prime Number Conspiracy
Apr 15, 2023 • 20m
Jeffrey Carpenter and Andrea Robbett, "Game Theory and Behavior" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jan 14, 2023 • 23m
James D. Stein, "Seduced by Mathematics: The Enduring Fascination of Mathematics" (World Scientific, 2022) Math
Dec 19, 2022 • 1h 26m
John Allen Paulos, "Who's Counting?: Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More" (Prometheus, 2022)
Dec 18, 2022 • 58m
Alfred S. Posamentier, "The Secret Lives of Numbers: Numerals and Their Peculiarities in Mathematics and Beyond" (Prometheus Books, 2022)
Nov 23, 2022 • 54m
Probability
Nov 22, 2022 • 18m
Alexandr Draganov, "Mathematical Tools for Real-World Applications: A Gentle Introduction for Students and Practitioners" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022 • 54m
Andrew Fiss, "Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Nov 9, 2022 • 44m
David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 2, 2022 • 1h 10m
John Stillwell, "The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Oct 31, 2022 • 57m
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Sep 23, 2022 • 57m
Karen Hunger Parshall, "The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Sep 12, 2022 • 1h 10m
Peter Winkler, "Mathematical Puzzles" (A K Peters, 2020)
Aug 23, 2022 • 1h 10m
Brian Cafarella, "Community College Mathematics: Past, Present, and Future" (CRC Press, 2022)
Aug 23, 2022 • 1h 7m
Joseph Mileti, "Modern Mathematical Logic" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 15, 2022 • 47m
Ronald Meester and Klaas Slooten, "Probability and Forensic Evidence: Theory, Philosophy, and Applications" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Aug 9, 2022 • 1h 2m
Andrew Witt, "Formulations: Architecture, Mathematics, Culture" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jul 8, 2022 • 18m
Scott Gehlbach, "Formal Models of Domestic Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jun 30, 2022 • 50m
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, "Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in LIfe" (Dey Street Books, 2022)
Jun 22, 2022 • 1h 0m
Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells, "Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed." (Ubiquity Press, 2022)
Jun 21, 2022 • 1h 2m
Nikita Braguinski, "Mathematical Music: From Antiquity to Music AI" (Focal Press, 2022)
Jun 9, 2022 • 1h 6m
Mindy Capaldi, "Teaching Mathematics Through Games" (American Mathematical Society, 2021)
May 10, 2022 • 51m
Dashun Wang and Albert-László Barabási, "The Science of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Apr 13, 2022 • 1h 1m
Hilary Glasman-Deal, "Science Research Writing For Native and Non-Native Speakers of English" (World Scientific Publishing Europe, 2020)
Mar 31, 2022 • 1h 6m
Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi, "A New History of Modern Computing" (MIT Press, 2021)
Mar 30, 2022 • 49m
Scott Timcke, "Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life" (Bristol UP, 2021)
Mar 28, 2022 • 55m
N. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022)
Mar 23, 2022 • 1h 8m
Kate Crawford, "The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" (Yale UP, 2021)
Mar 21, 2022 • 56m
Stephen B. Heard, "The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career, 2nd ed." (Princeton UP, 2022)
Mar 21, 2022 • 1h 16m
Florian Jaton, "The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating" (MIT Press, 2021)
Mar 16, 2022 • 50m
Sarah Brayne, "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 4, 2022 • 54m
Tony Veale, "Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor" (MIT Press, 2021)
Feb 16, 2022 • 1h 5m
Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Feb 10, 2022 • 1h 9m
Brian Cafarella, "Breaking Barriers: Student Success in Community College Mathematics" (A K Peters, 2021)
Feb 1, 2022 • 1h 8m
Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)
Jan 20, 2022 • 48m
Thomas Huckle and Tobias Neckel, "Bits and Bugs: A Scientific and Historical Review of Software Failures in Computational Science" (SIAM, 2019)
Jan 17, 2022 • 1h 4m
David Sulzer, "Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Dec 30, 2021 • 1h 16m
James Wynn and G. Mitchell Reyes, "Arguing with Numbers: The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
Dec 7, 2021 • 1h 7m
Ian Stewart, “The Joy of Mathematics” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Nov 12, 2021 • 1h 25m
Vicky Neale, "Why Study Mathematics?" (London Publishing Partnership, 2020)
Nov 5, 2021 • 54m
Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021 • 52m
Chris Bleakley, "Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 27, 2021 • 1h 24m
Alfred S. Posamentier, "Math Tricks: The Surprising Wonders of Shapes and Numbers" (Prometheus Books, 2021)
Aug 30, 2021 • 54m
Rachel Steinig and Rodi Steinig, "Math Renaissance: Growing Math Circles, Changing Classrooms, and Creating Sustainable Math Education" (Natural Math, 2018)
Aug 26, 2021 • 1h 1m
Satyan Devadoss and Matt Harvey, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries" (MIT Press, 2020)
Aug 10, 2021 • 1h 8m
Artur Ekert, “Cryptoreality” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 9, 2021 • 2h 56m
Freeman Dyson, “Pushing the Boundaries” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 6, 2021 • 1h 45m
James Ladyman and K. Wiesner, "What Is a Complex System?" (Yale UP, 2020)
Jul 30, 2021 • 1h 14m
James Robert Brown, “Plato’s Heaven: A User’s Guide” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Jul 22, 2021 • 1h 29m
Ellen Peters, "Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers" (Oxford UP, 2020)
May 31, 2021 • 1h 8m
Dave Auckly, et al., "Inspiring Mathematics: Lessons from the Navajo Nation Math Circles" (AMS, 2019)
Apr 27, 2021 • 1h 13m
Jonas Peters and Nicolai Meinshausen, "The Raven's Hat: Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games" (MIT Press, 2021)
Apr 2, 2021 • 57m
Eugenia Cheng, "x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender" (Basic Book, 2020)
Apr 1, 2021 • 42m
J. Rosenhouse, "Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jan 25, 2021 • 56m
Snezana Lawrence, "A New Year's Present from a Mathematician" (CRC Press, 2019)
Jan 8, 2021 • 55m
James D. Stein, "The Fate of Schrodinger's Cat: Using Math and Computers to Explore the Counterintuitive" (World Scientific, 2020)
Dec 7, 2020 • 1h 15m
Anna Weltman, "Supermath: The Power of Numbers for Good and Evil" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Dec 1, 2020 • 1h 47m
Alfred S. Posamentier, "The Joy of Geometry" (Prometheus, 2020)
Nov 11, 2020 • 57m
Susan D'Agostino, "How to Free Your Inner Mathematician: Notes on Mathematics and Life" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 29, 2020 • 1h 4m
Alfred Posamentier, "Mathematics Entertainment for the Millions" (World Scientific Publishing, 2020)
Sep 9, 2020 • 57m
David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Aug 24, 2020 • 1h 27m
Satyan Devadoss, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries" (MIT Press, 2020)
Aug 13, 2020 • 57m
Cailin O’Connor, "Games in the Philosophy of Biology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 10, 2020 • 1h 6m
B. Fong and D. I. Spivak, "An Invitation to Applied Category Theory: Seven Sketches in Compositionality" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jul 8, 2020 • 2h 1m
Ben Cohen, "The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks" (Custom House, 2020)
Jun 25, 2020 • 43m
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 2, 2020 • 2h 0m
sarah-marie belcastro, "Discrete Mathematics with Ducks" (CRC Press, 2018)
May 29, 2020 • 32m
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020 • 59m
Alex Berke, "Beautiful Symmetry: A Coloring Book about Math" (MIT Press, 2020)
Apr 22, 2020 • 53m
Paul Nahin, "Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Apr 3, 2020 • 52m
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020 • 54m
Al Posamentier, "Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians" (Prometheus, 2020)
Mar 10, 2020 • 56m
Maureen T. Carroll and Elyn Rykken, "Geometry: The Line and the Circle" (MAA Press, 2018)
Feb 26, 2020 • 49m
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020 • 42m
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 2020 • 39m
Christopher J. Phillips, "Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know About Baseball" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jan 29, 2020 • 44m
Brian Clegg, "Conundrum: Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge" (Icon Books, 2019)
Jan 28, 2020 • 54m
David Spiegelhalter, "The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data" (Basic, 2019)
Dec 13, 2019 • 1h 2m
Gary Meisner, "The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics" (Race Point Press, 2018)
Nov 22, 2019 • 40m
Julian Havil, "Curves for the Mathematically Curious" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Nov 15, 2019 • 59m
Margaret E. Schotte, "Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Nov 14, 2019 • 56m
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 3, 2019 • 38m
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019 • 32m
David Lindsay Roberts, "Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Oct 17, 2019 • 1h 13m
Alfred S. Posamentier, "Tools to Help Your Children Learn Math" (WSPC, 2019)
Sep 16, 2019 • 57m
Davide Crippa, The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century" (Birkhäuser, 2019)
Aug 28, 2019 • 1h 0m
Chris Bernhardt, "Quantum Computing for Everyone" (MIT Press, 2019)
May 2, 2019 • 56m
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019 • 32m
Kartik Hosanagar, "A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives" (Viking, 2019)
Mar 12, 2019 • 55m
Andrew C. A. Elliott, “Is That a Big Number?” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Nov 9, 2018 • 53m
Eli Maor, “Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Jul 18, 2018 • 56m
Vicky Neale, “Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 12, 2017 • 55m
Alfred Posamentier et. al., “The Joy of Mathematics: Marvels, Novelties, and Neglected Gems That Are Rarely Taught in Math Class” (Prometheus Books, 2017)
Oct 16, 2017 • 57m
Brian Clegg, “Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives” (Icon Books, 2017)
Sep 19, 2017 • 54m
Brian Clegg, “The Reality Frame: Relativity and Our Place in the Universe” (Icon Books, 2017)
Jun 29, 2017 • 52m
Oscar Fernandez, “The Calculus of Happiness” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Jun 11, 2017 • 53m
David Danks, “Unifying the Mind: Cognitive Representations as Graphical Models” (MIT Press, 2014)
May 15, 2017 • 1h 9m
Raffi Grinberg, “The Real Analysis Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Understand Proofs” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Feb 15, 2017 • 53m
Matthew L. Jones, “Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
Jan 23, 2017 • 1h 4m
Brian Clegg, “Are Numbers Real? The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World (St. Martin’s Press, 2016)
Jan 4, 2017 • 52m
Ian Stewart, “Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe” (Basic Books, 2016)
Dec 29, 2016 • 55m
Alfred Posamentier and Stephen Krulik, “Effective Techniques to Motivate Mathematics Instruction” (Routledge, 2016)
Oct 1, 2016 • 55m
Alfred S. Posamentier and Robert Geretschlager, “The Circle: A Mathematical Exploration Beyond the Line” (Prometheus Books, 2016)
Sep 11, 2016 • 55m
Beineke and Rosenhouse, eds., “The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Research in Recreational Math” (Princeton UP, 2015)
May 23, 2016 • 55m
Adam Kucharski, “The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling” (Basic Books, 2016)
Mar 31, 2016 • 52m
James D. Stein, “L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels” (Princeton UP, 2016)
Feb 24, 2016 • 59m
Lynn Gamwell, “Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Jan 5, 2016 • 59m
Brian Clegg, “How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? The Ultimate Science Quiz Book” (Icon Books, 2015)
Dec 7, 2015 • 54m
Dan Bouk, “How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Nov 23, 2015 • 44m
John Allen Paulos, “A Numerate Life” (Prometheus Books, 2015)
Nov 12, 2015 • 53m
Arthur Benjamin, “The Magic of Math” (Basic Book, 2015)
Sep 30, 2015 • 56m
Margaret Morrison, “Reconstructing Reality: Models, Mathematics, and Simulations” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Jul 15, 2015 • 1h 8m
Christopher J. Phillips, “The New Math: A Political History” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Mar 26, 2015 • 1h 7m
Colin Adams, “Zombies and Calculus” (Princeton UP, 2014)
Oct 15, 2014 • 53m
Jordan Ellenberg, “How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking” (Penguin Press, 2014)
Jul 8, 2014 • 55m
Sue VanHattum, “Playing with Math: Stories from Math Circles, Homeschoolers, and Passionate Teachers” (Natural Math, 2015)
Jun 26, 2014 • 1h 2m
Al Cuoco and Joe Rotman, “Learning Modern Algebra: From Early Attempts to Prove Fermat’s Last Theorem” (MAA, 2013)
Jun 20, 2014 • 1h 15m
David Reimer, “Count Like an Egyptian: A Hands-on Introduction to Ancient Mathematics” (Princeton UP, 2014)
Jun 9, 2014 • 1h 17m
Peter Gardenfors, “The Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces” (MIT Press, 2014)
Jun 9, 2014 • 44m
Oscar E. Fernandez, “Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All around Us (Princeton UP, 2014)
Apr 17, 2014 • 53m
Michael Strevens, “Tychomancy: Inferring Probability from Causal Structure” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Apr 15, 2014 • 1h 1m
Tim Chartier, “Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing” (Princeton UP, 2014)
Apr 8, 2014 • 1h 13m
Chuck Adler, “Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction” (Princeton UP, 2014)
Feb 14, 2014 • 1h 35m
Eli Maor and Eugen Jost, “Beautiful Geometry” (Princeton UP, 2014)
Feb 11, 2014 • 51m
Edward Frenkel, “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality” (Basic Books, 2013)
Nov 8, 2013 • 57m
Colm Mulcahy, “Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects” (A K Peters, 2013)
Sep 26, 2013 • 1h 16m
Brian Clegg, “Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe” (Icon Books, 2013)
Jun 4, 2013 • 53m
Leonard Wapner, “Unexpected Expectations: The Curiosities of a Mathematical Crystal Ball” (A.K. Peters, 2012)
May 6, 2013 • 57m
Lance Fortnow, “The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible” (Princeton UP, 2013))
Apr 2, 2013 • 54m
Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez, “Math on Trial” (Basic Books, 2013)
Mar 13, 2013 • 1h 0m
Catherine Jami, “The Emperor’s New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority During the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722)” (Oxford UP, 2012)
Oct 19, 2012 • 1h 10m
Roger Hart, “The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011)
Jul 27, 2012 • 1h 8m
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