The Numbers behind a Fields Medalist's Math
Inside the p-adic numbers that make Peter Scholze's work tick
Stories by Evelyn Lamb
How Math Helped Me Learn Early Music
Abstract algebra class gave me the kick in the rear I needed to focus on the relationships between notes
Holly Krieger's Favorite Theorem
The Cambridge mathematician expounds on the delightful irony of Brouwer's fixed-point theorem
Vidit Nanda's Favorite Theorem
Fixed points and pizza
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Bouquet of n Circles
A rose by any other name would be as mathematically useful...
Math and the Beaches of Rio
Stephen Smale and the history of the Fields medal
Ingrid Daubechies's Favorite Theorem
Ingrid Daubechies shares the Tutte embedding theorem and how it can help biologists understand the evolution of teeth
Ken Ribet's Favorite Theorem
The Berkeley math professor shares his favorite prime proofs
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: Antoine's Necklace
Because sometimes a Cantor set just wants to feel pretty
Stepping into a Three-Torus
How artist Yayoi Kusama showed me the beauty of a favorite mathematical space
Jana Rodriguez Hertz's Favorite Theorem
From noodles to chaos
Francis Su's Favorite Theorem
The Harvey Mudd College mathematician tells us why he loves playing with Brouwer's fixed-point theorem
A Finite Trip with Kakeya
Following Kakeya’s needle to new mathematics
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Witch of Agnesi
What is the meaning of this unassuming, mistranslated curve?
Emily Riehl's Favorite Theorem
The Johns Hopkins University mathematician tells us why doing category theory is like playing the viola
John Urschel's Favorite Theorem
In which we are honored to be the second-favorite podcast appearance of the only MIT applied math graduate student who has played in the NFL
The Metonymy of Matrices
A matrix is an array of numbers, but it represents so much more
Nalini Joshi's Favorite Theorem
Talking time travel, complex analysis and Burmese food with a mathematician from the University of Sydney
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Moser Spindle
A recent breakthrough in a decades-old graph theory problem relies on this little assembly of seven points and eleven edges
Jayadev Athreya's Favorite Theorem
The University of Washington mathematician talks trees, lattices and a plucky constant that seems to show up everywhere
