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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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00:35:37

Episode 95 - Kyne Santos

My Favorite Theorem ·

2025/05/21

Kyne Santos, a drag queen and mathematics educator living in Canada, is a big fan of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Also hiking.

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00:40:45

Episode 94 - Jeremy Alm

My Favorite Theorem ·

2025/02/06

Jeremy Alm likes the Rado graph, a weird object that captures all sorts of interesting properties of finite graphs. Also cheese.

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00:22:06

Episode 93 - Robin Wilson

My Favorite Theorem ·

2024/12/02

Robin Wilson likes the Hopf Index Theorem and we agree. Also, hot fudge.

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00:29:37

Episode 92 - Kate Stange

My Favorite Theorem ·

2024/06/10

Kate Stange is a number theorist who loves quadratic forms (and who doesn't, really). Her favorite theorem is the bijection between them and ideal classes. Also chocolate.

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00:34:17

Episode 91 - Karen Saxe

My Favorite Theorem ·

2024/04/03

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.

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00:33:46

Episode 90 - Corrine Yap

My Favorite Theorem ·

2024/01/23

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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00:35:04

Episode 89 - Allison Henrich

My Favorite Theorem ·

2023/11/12

Allison Henrich studies knots and her favorite theorem is about how one might unknot a knot. Also, music.

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00:26:15

Episode 88 - Tom Edgar

My Favorite Theorem ·

2023/10/09

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.

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00:23:42

Episode 87 - Tatiana Toro

My Favorite Theorem ·

2023/09/07

Tatiana Toro is a geometer and therefore loves the ur-theorem of geometry, "due" to Pythagoras. She also likes to walk.

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00:41:14

Episode 86 - Sarah Hart

My Favorite Theorem ·

2023/07/20

Gresham Professor of Geometry Sarah Hart likes cycloids and we talk at length about all their fascinating properties. Also, Moby Dick (or The Whale).

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00:30:49

Episode 85 - Matthew Kahle

My Favorite Theorem ·

2023/06/02

Euler's polyhedral formula continues to amaze Matthew Kahle as he finds it showing up in different places in mathematics. Also, Bach.

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00:50:21

Episode 84 - The Students of TCU

My Favorite Theorem ·

2023/05/02

Kevin visited Texas Christian University in March and recorded this episode with some math students. Excellent theorems and pairings.

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00:26:52

Episode 83 - Cihan Bahran

My Favorite Theorem ·

2023/02/16

Cihan Bahran has a popular twitter feed in which he shares surprising theorems. His favorite? Matrix mortality is undecidable.

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00:29:20

Episode 82 - Juliette Bruce

My Favorite Theorem ·

2022/12/30

Juliette Bruce is an algebraic geometer who loves to think about embedding curves in projective space. Also mountaineering.

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00:33:13

Episode 81 - Christopher Danielson

My Favorite Theorem ·

2022/11/26

Technically this is a theorem, but it seems so obvious that it's unclear that it needs a proof. In this episode Christopher Danielson points out that polygons have same number of sides as vertices. Many shapes make an appearance.

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00:33:56

Episode 80 - Kimberly Ayers

My Favorite Theorem ·

2022/10/21

Kimberly Ayers likes dynamics and so obvs her fave theorem is Sharkovskii's result that "period 3 implies chaos." Also taffy.

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00:34:32

Episode 79 - Philip Ording

My Favorite Theorem ·

2022/09/15

Philip Ording wrote a cool book (you should check it out) and he likes the Erlangen Program. Not really a theorem, but we're not purists around here.

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00:27:40

Episode 78 - Daina Taimina

My Favorite Theorem ·

2022/08/11

Daina Taimina is famous for her adventures in mathematical crocheting, but her favorite theorem comes from Desargues. She also likes to travel.

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00:25:53

Episode 77 - Tien Chih

My Favorite Theorem ·

2022/07/13

Tien Chih loves combinatorics, which means he really loves proving things by induction. In this episode we have a good time learning about this incredibly useful technique in mathematics.

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00:58:35

Episode 76 - Math Students of CSULA

My Favorite Theorem ·

2022/06/09

We are joined by a group of math students at Cal State University in Los Angeles for a diverse collection of theorems and pairings.

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