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.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]