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My Favorite Theorem

Kevin Knudson & Evelyn Lamb

Join us as we spend each episode talking with a mathematical professional about their favorite result. And since the best things in life come in pairs, find out what our guest thinks pairs best with their theorem.

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00:21:49

Episode 35 - Nira Chamberlain

My Favorite Theorem ·

2019/01/24

Nira Chamberlain likes applied mathematical models. In this episode he tells us about the Lorenz attractor and how that pairs nicely with Caribbean food.

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00:23:59

Episode 34 - Skip Garibaldi

My Favorite Theorem ·

2019/01/10

In middle school, mathematician Skip Garibaldi wondered how many real numbers you can actually name. The answer is not as many as you'd like.

en-US

00:29:24

Episode 33 - Michele Audin

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/12/27

Mathematician and writer Michele Audin lets us know why she loves Stokes's Theorem enough to have written a novel about it.

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00:25:13

Episode 32 - Anil Venkatesh

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/12/13

Mathematician Anil Venkatesh likes the Shapley Value, and it turns out to have applications unrelated to politics.

en-US

00:17:53

Episode 31 - Yen Duong

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/11/29

Mathematician-journalist Yen Duong joins us to talk about Ramsey theory and the first "real" theorem she learned--the Ramsey number R(3,3) is 6.

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00:24:34

Episode 30 - Katie Steckles

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/11/08

Join us to learn about the Fold and Cut Theorem, which asserts that it is possible to cut any polygonal shape via a single cut provided you fold the paper correctly.

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00:19:38

Episode 29 - Mike Lawler

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/10/25

Mike Lawler is a mathematician working in finance. Join us to learn an interesting theorem about insurance pricing.

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00:20:25

Episode 28 - Chawne Kimber

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/10/11

Join mathematician Chawne Kimber for a journey into Archimedean groups, lattice-ordered groups, and quilting.

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00:24:22

Episode 27 - James Tanton

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/09/27

James Tanton is the MAA's "Mathematician at Large" and he joins us to talk about Sperner's Lemma.

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00:26:31

Episode 26 - Erika Camacho

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/09/13

Applied mathematician Erika Camacho tells us about modeling diseases of the eye using systems of differential equations. Her favorite theorem allows her to understand the solutions to these types of systems.

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00:23:39

Episode 25 - Holly Krieger

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/08/23

Our first repeat theorem! But our guest has a completely different take on the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem, giving us a ton of facts about Brouwer the mathematician.

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00:19:46

Episode 24 - Vidit Nanda

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/08/09

Contractions on complete metric spaces have unique fixed points. That's a pretty cool theorem, according to our guest Vidit.

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00:31:36

Episode 23 - Ingrid Daubechies

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/07/26

Ingrid Daubechies has lots of favorite theorems, but right now it's all about planar graph embeddings. Find out why in this episode.

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00:29:48

Episode 22 - Ken Ribet

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/07/12

Euclid taught us that there are infinitely many primes. In this episode Ken Ribet tells us why this is his favorite theorem and gives us a couple of interesting proofs.

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00:22:49

Episode 21 - Jana Rodriguez Hertz

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/06/28

Mathematician Jana Rodriguez Hertz tells us about the Smale horseshoe map, symbolic dynamics, noodles, and all kinds of other fun stuff.

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00:21:31

Episode 20 - Francis Su

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/06/14

Join mathematician Francis Su to find out why he thinks the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem is so appealing.

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00:32:05

Episode 19 - Emily Riehl

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/05/24

Category theorist Emily Riehl tells us her second-favorite theorem: right adjoints preserve limits. Since this is category theory we get another theorem for free by dualizing: left adjoints preserve colimits. Listen to find out Emily's favorite theorem, too.

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00:23:44

Episode 18 - John Urschel

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/05/10

Join former NFL lineman/current mathematician John Urschel to learn about how to take a dense graph and find a sparse graph whose Laplacian is very close to that of the original graph. Applied math at its finest.

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00:26:55

Episode 17 - Nalini Joshi

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/04/26

Join applied mathematician Nalini Joshi to learn about Mittag-Leffler's theorem, a fundamental result in complex analysis that tells us how to build meromorphic functions on the plane with any prescribed set of poles.

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00:33:00

Episode 16 - Jayadev Athreya

My Favorite Theorem ·

2018/04/12

If you stand at the origin in a forest whose trees lie at integer lattice points, what proportion of them can you see? Jayadev Athreya guides us to the answer and then goes further.

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