Stories by Evelyn Lamb

They say you can’t be a little bit pregnant, but maybe a number can be a little bit prime
 

Mike Lawler talks about the most influential paper in his career in finance, teaching math to his kids and ultimate

Mathematician Chawne Kimber shares her favorite theorems and quilts that make a statement

Is that a chill in the air? Then it must be time for PSL’s, everyone’s favorite seasonal matrices

“Mathematician-at-large” James Tanton shares playful mathematics and Sperner’s lemma

The Lathisms podcast shares the varied stories of Hispanic and Latinx mathematicians

Erika Camacho discusses how her favorite theorem applies to her research on mathematical modeling of eye diseases and the dynamics of fanaticism

Inside the p-adic numbers that make Peter Scholze's work tick

Abstract algebra class gave me the kick in the rear I needed to focus on the relationships between notes

The Cambridge mathematician expounds on the delightful irony of Brouwer's fixed-point theorem

Fixed points and pizza

A rose by any other name would be as mathematically useful...

Stephen Smale and the history of the Fields medal

Ingrid Daubechies shares the Tutte embedding theorem and how it can help biologists understand the evolution of teeth

The Berkeley math professor shares his favorite prime proofs

Because sometimes a Cantor set just wants to feel pretty

From noodles to chaos

How artist Yayoi Kusama showed me the beauty of a favorite mathematical space

The Harvey Mudd College mathematician tells us why he loves playing with Brouwer's fixed-point theorem

Following Kakeya’s needle to new mathematics

What is the meaning of this unassuming, mistranslated curve?

The Johns Hopkins University mathematician tells us why doing category theory is like playing the viola

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

A matrix is an array of numbers, but it represents so much more