My Favorite Theorem

Feb 06 2025 95 ep. 28 mins 4.3k

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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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Episode 94 - Jeremy Alm

Feb 06 2025 40 mins

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

Episode 93 - Robin Wilson

Dec 02 2024 22 mins

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

Episode 92 - Kate Stange

Jun 10 2024 29 mins

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.

Episode 91 - Karen Saxe

Apr 03 2024 34 mins

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.

Episode 90 - Corrine Yap

Jan 23 2024 33 mins

Corrine Yap loves math, graph theory in particular, and also loves to perform her one-person play about Sonya Kovalevskaya. Also, tofu.

Episode 89 - Allison Henrich

Nov 12 2023 35 mins

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

Episode 88 - Tom Edgar

Oct 09 2023 26 mins

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.

Episode 87 - Tatiana Toro

Sep 07 2023 23 mins

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

Episode 86 - Sarah Hart

Jul 20 2023 41 mins

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

Episode 85 - Matthew Kahle

Jun 02 2023 30 mins

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