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Why do we celebrate math? And what's the big deal about pi day? Can math be beautiful? Calculated is a podcast collection of stories about people at the intersection of math, culture, and art.

Stephen Ornes

  • Apr 29, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
  • infrequent NEW EPISODES
  • 17m AVG DURATION
  • 5 EPISODES


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Episode 4: What’s math got to do with poetry?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2020 19:44


April is National Poetry Month. It’s also National Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month. Which means it should be Math Poetry month! Celebrate with this episode of Calculated, which features Archimedes, […]

Episode 3: Can math be beautiful?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2019 20:16


Mathematics is often described “beautiful,” but what does that mean? In this episode of Calculated, we follow those questions — first to the biological basis of mathematical beauty in the […]

Episode 2: Pi is Dead! Long Live Pi!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2019 20:52


We celebrate pi, the most popular irrational number, on March 14. But not all is peaceful and easy for pi. This episode first revisits a quirky math anecdote about how […]

Episode 1: How to make an American pi quilt

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2019 24:05


In this episode, we meet John Sims, a political and math artist in Sarasota, Florida, and find out how his quilts encode the digits of pi. Scroll down for the […]

Welcome

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2019 2:57


Calculated is a new podcast collection of stories about people at the intersection of math, art, and culture. Hosted and produced by Stephen Ornes, author of Math Art: Truth, Beauty, […]

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