Podcasts about knot theory

On Episode 175, Eric and Josh breakdown the tangled world of Knot Theory. WE HAVE A PATREON! Subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/RidingTheTorus You can find Eric's research notes for every episode here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1syBwRsJ3b3YnOlUCXXFEEUpgF0NODLL2⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Also! If you enjoy the Riding The Torus theme song, you can now download it for FREE from the Bueno Tornado bandcamp page. Here is the link: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://buenotornado.bandcamp.com/track/riding-the-torus-theme⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Hosts: eric beal - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/ericbealart/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Josh Campbell - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠twitter.com/josh_campbell⁠⁠⁠

Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. Part of the problem may be the way the subject is taught, but it's also true that we all, to a greater or lesser extent, find math difficult and counterintuitive. This counterintuitiveness is actually part of the point, argues Parker: the extraordinary thing about math is that it allows us to access logic and ideas beyond what our brains can instinctively do―through its logical tools, we are able to reach beyond our innate abilities and grasp more and more abstract concepts. In his book, “Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension”, Parker sets out to convince his readers to revisit the very math that put them off the subject as schoolchildren. Starting with the foundations of math familiar from school, he takes us on a grand tour, from four dimensional shapes, knot theory, the mysteries of prime numbers, optimization algorithms, and the math behind barcodes and iPhone screens to the different kinds of infinity―and slightly beyond. Originally published in December of 2014. Visit http://youtube.com/TalksAtGoogle/ to watch the video.

Where does your justice threshold rest? This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about Lana Del Rey, LEGO, the arenas of justice, the TSA, Aaron's personal space, and taking umbrage. They don't talk about the Molecular Lego of Knots. references Lana Del Rey's "Video Games" Father John Misty LEGO Great Pyramid of Giza Corrections Department: Jan (pronounced Yon) Vormann discusses his Dispatch Work Donatello vs Sub Zero | Mortal Kombat 11 vs Injustice LEGO Masters Season 1, Episode 6: Aaron and Christian's Bridge Veritasium on Knot Theory 

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/e8kyvdPP8os A crash course in theoretical physics, using natural units and high school mathematics. This is the lesson I wish I had when I was younger. Sponsors:  -Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/TOE for 20% off  -Algo: https://youtube.com/channel/UC9IfRw1QaTglRoX0sN11AQQ and website https://algo.com  Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch LINKS MENTIONED: Sabine Hossenfelder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP5G20ImveU  Andrew Dotson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5NKHsOzvAc  Pretty Much Physics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cQqRYVA3Ms Nima's Lecture: https://youtu.be/nVO4I3D38O0 Richard Borcherds' YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIyDqfi_cbkp-RU20aBF-MQ Norman Wildberger's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/njwildberger Conversion Chart #1: http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~korytov/phz4390/note_01_NaturalUnits_SMsummary.pdf Conversion Chart #2: http://www.saha.ac.in/theory/palashbaran.pal/conv.html Quantum Gravity podcast (Salvatore Pais): https://youtu.be/5E6QyAhTB3o?t=3057 On Enthymemes (Lue Elizondo): https://youtu.be/wULw64ZL1Bg?t=6971 Carlo Rovelli podcast: https://youtu.be/r_fUPbBNmBw Stephen Wolfram's TOE: https://youtu.be/1sXrRc3Bhrs Eric Weinstein podcast: https://youtu.be/KElq_MLO1kw String Theory podcast (Stephon Alexander): https://youtu.be/VETxb96a3qk QFT and Knot Theory podcast (Dror Bar Natan): https://youtu.be/rJz_Badd43c TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 The Why: A shift in perspective 00:02:07 The What: What to expect to learn in this video 00:04:53 The How: The TOE approach 00:10:53 What are Natural Units? 00:26:09 Conversion equations 00:40:09 Newton's constant / Entropy / Why speed is "dimensionless" 00:47:56 A Neutron star's pressure 00:49:16 Proportionate strengths of forces / "Wave function" is not a function 00:54:41 Knots / Extra dimensions 01:02:41 Inside Microtubules / Consciousness / Penrose's theory 01:07:55 Naïve Vacuum Expectation / Dark Energy 01:14:01 Calculating with the Schwinger Limit / Superforce 01:21:41 Annihilating electron - positron pairs / Quantum gravity / Black holes 01:31:32 *Sponsor and Patreon* 01:34:23 Length of an atom 01:41:12 Cutting a solid / How "special relativity" challenges what it means to "exist" 01:42:25 Laconically deriving the Casimir Pressure falloff / Rigor in math and physics 01:44:35 Analyzing the Sun 01:36:31 The size of Earth (derivation from fundamental constants) 01:46:16 Intuiting the radius of an electron / Classical Mechanics break down 01:31:51 On why we use X Rays to probe solid matter 01:51:33 Scales of the LHC / God particle 01:53:18 Summary 01:54:21 What's next? * * * Just wrapped (April 2021) a documentary called Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to watch it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Are you familiar with Knot Theory? Apparently former NASA Physicist Thad Roberts derived charge of the electron from the hyperbolic figure 8 knot. He recommended using Mathematica to verify. - Why does computer code involve math? Why isn't it just a set of linear instructions that sometimes hop around, like a choose your own adventure book? - What type of computer logic is most efficient (binary, ternary,...)? - I hear that all Boolean functions can be constructed from only NAND. Is this true of any other simple Boolean function? - Why does NAND realize NAND? -why are we only considering first order derivatives of position (velocity) and 2nd order (acceleration)? Why are higher order derivatives not relative apparently? - ​what is derivative of acceleration called? - Do you think emotions will emerge out of intelligence... if computer scientists continue to make general AI...do you think the more 'general' or 'intelligent' it gets the more 'emotional' it will get?

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/rJz_Badd43c Dror Bar-Natan is a Professor of mathematic who's interests include knot theory, QFT, and Khovanov homology Sponsors: https://brilliant.org/TOE for 20% off. http://algo.com for supply chain AI. Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything LINKS MENTIONED: PDF link of notes: https://tinyurl.com/4u4ru2yh TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:29 Quantum Field Theory and Knot Theory 00:10:19 Another QFT / Knot Theory connection or analogy 00:20:46 Knot Theory and Gravity + Bar-Natan's PhD on Chern-Simons 00:24:08 Homology and Cohomology 00:32:54 Dror's average day / routines / laziness 00:35:23 What is "work" for a Professor? How much of it is thinking vs. reading etc.? 00:36:50 All the research is to support teaching 00:41:34 Motivated examples are what's missing in math teaching  00:47:35 Are you more creative when younger or older? 00:48:43 Being "systematic" with learning and research 00:50:37 Rant against theorems and proofs (emphasis) 00:54:51 What understanding a mathematical concept looks like 01:03:35 On laziness, strengths, and weaknesses in mathematics 01:07:47 Advice for the struggling mathematician 01:09:30 What did Dror learn from studying with Ed Witten 01:12:12 On Eric Weinstein 01:19:32 Knot Theory and Physics (again) 01:20:10 Why can't physics of 2 or 3 dimensions be extended to 4 easily? 01:34:21 Hard Problem of Consciousness 01:35:54 The problems Dror thinks about daily 01:37:49 What direction would he like mathematics research to head in? 01:40:26 Philosophy of math (ultra-finitism) 01:44:45 Pure mathematics in service to applied mathematics 01:47:14 How to learn a new field of mathematics 01:47:15 [the scientific mystical philosopher] Unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics 01:48:28 [Romain Gicquad] On IQ 01:51:06 [Tori Ko] ​What do you think about biology / psychology / philosophy 01:54:03 [Phill Thomas] What led him into the field of mathematics? Can anyone can learn advanced math? 02:03:52 [Tyler Goldstein] Do we need to make new research institutions not linked to academia? 02:06:04 Bias in academia 02:10:15 What's a mathematician? Who's a mathematician and who's not? 02:14:31 [Ashley Shipp] Does he think there is a connection between knot theory and protein folding? 02:19:49 [Jack Dysart] Is math a human construct? 02:22:50 [cx777o] Does he believe in a concept of god? 05:19:49 [Bill McGonigle] Ramanujan and his Goddess 02:23:47 Revealed story that Dror has about Curt and the Prisoner's Dilemma 02:30:27 [Harinivas P] Bible Code and applying advanced math in one's life 02:37:26 [Roy Dopson] Why does it take 360 pages to "prove" that 1+1=2? * * * Just wrapped (April 2021) a documentary called Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to watch it.

OverviewHave you ever heard the saying, “If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life?” Well, I can tell you from personal experience that this is often NOT the case. This idea sent me down a 6-year path of feeling burnt out, but unable to admit it. I loved what I did, but I also felt tired, angry and worn down all the time. I spent years looking for what was wrong in my life rather than examining the needs of my mind, body and soul. Then, I started hearing the word “burnout” pop up everywhere. At first, I didn’t even know what it meant. And after extensive research, what I learned was disheartening – that burnout belonged in hospitals to doctors and nurses and in corporations to high-level managers. Burnout didn’t apply to me, the female entrepreneur. That’s when I started doing some more internal digging. And what I discovered was that burnout is ultimately caused by feelings of unworthiness. I didn’t feel deserving of true fulfillment, and so I never achieved it. This started me on a journey of making small, manageable changes in my life to rediscover my self-love and self-worth. Four of the things that helped most me along the way were:• Practicing small boundaries (like allowing myself to pee when I needed to!)• Getting out of other people’s knots (Listen to the episode to learn about Knot Theory, and how it has radically changed my life.)• Yoga nidra• Regularly reviewing my values My burnout journey taught me that recovery should be slow, gentle and kind. By acknowledging my basic needs and taking care of myself before always tending to others, my feelings of worthiness slowly started to build. When you start to care for yourself in a more authentic way, you AND everyone around you will benefit. Lastly, I want to remind you that it is never too late to start the process of burnout recovery. No matter how burnt out you are, there is always an opportunity to re-establish your sense of worthiness. It’s all about taking small steps to remind your body, your mind and your spirit what true fulfillment feels like. Quotes• “In my own life, I felt like I had been sold a dream that sounded like this: ‘Work really hard, do your best, follow your heart, let your passions guide you and you’ll never feel like you’re working a day in your life.’ Have you ever heard that? The idea that if you love what you do, it’ll never feel like work? That idea sent me down a 6-year path of being burnt out and unable to admit it.” (2:06-2:32) • “Burnout, when it’s not caused by workplace bullying, or poor company culture, is related to one underlying element: a feeling of unworthiness. It is impossible to allow fulfilling work to fulfill you if you don’t feel worthy of feeling full.” (4:49-5:15) • “Small boundaries have nothing to do with another person. They are grace and generosity that I grant myself.” (6:19-6:28) • “Self-care is necessary for the care of the whole and not selfish at all, as I previously viewed it….When you abandon yourself, you’re harming the people around you, too. You deserve to be cared for, you deserve your own attention, but other people also deserve you to have your own attention.” (10:37-11:01) • “I thought I knew what my values were, but when I did an exercise to unveil MY core values, what I came up with was different than what I expected. I was living according to values that I had inherited, from both my family and my community. The rules and expectations I was following had nothing (or very little) to do with how I actually wanted to live my life. Getting reacquainted with my OWN values was eye-opening and now something I revisit to check in with regularly because they change, because I change, because the world changes!” (13:00-13:35) • “My feelings of worthiness started to naturally build as a result of simply acknowledging my needs and allowing myself to meet them.” (15:02-15:15) • “Recovering from burnout should be slow, gentle and kind. It is built of pebbles and stones instead of bricks and cement blocks. It is built of tiny moments of self-love and care and attention in between hours and days and weeks of self-doubt and questioning your value and your worthiness. It is constantly reminding yourself what IS your knot and what isn’t. It is checking in with your values over and over again and allowing yourself to make aligned decisions. It is saying more YES to yourself, so much so that you don’t automatically say yes to everyone else around you when they have a need that pops up. It is allowing space and time for your nervous system and brain to rest, to heal and to reset at a lower level of functioning, to allow yourself to go at your own internal speed limit instead of putting the pedal to the metal at all times.” (16:20-17:23) LinksFree Breakthrough Burnout Call with Cait Podcast production and show notes provided by FIRESIDE Marketing

Join us as we go through four more facts. First we talk about one of Scotland's three loves unfortunately for Chris it's the one he knows nothing about, Chris then decides we should talk about stonks and when not to invest in the stock market, but mainly to get to a side fact. David goes all science in knot theory, which isn't related to tying shoes. We wrap it up with a lovely discussion about a childhood treat in popsicles. Enjoy!

Dillon Mayhew, Associate Professor from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Te Heranga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington joins us once again. Tonight he'll be helping us untangle knot theory.

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This week on The Enginerdy Show: Mr. Pold and Master Z discuss their favorite meals to cook. St. Jimmy gets tied up with Knot Theory. D'Viddy visits the International Space Station aboard Crew Dragon Demo-2. Consumption: Mr. Pold - The Last Airbender, Gemini Man, Self/less, Rocketman St. Jimmy - The Twilight Zone season 5, The Expanse season 3 D'Viddy - The Flash, The Aeronauts, The Boondock Saints, Ip Man 3, Kingsman: The Golden Circle , Shadow season 1, Hotel Artemis, Promare Master Z - Minute Physics, Everyday Astronaut, I Am Legend, Dublin Murders Music Provided By: Greg Gibbs / Most Guitars Are Made of Trees Alec's Band / Well Water Karina Buhr / Nassiria e Najaf The Clientele / Impossible The Gays / Out of Love The Golden Hours / My Feet Beneath the Water Winston / Valse Catastrophe

Learn about the life and work of Estratia Kalfagianni as described by a group of high schoolers attending the camp Girls Talk Math at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. By Erin Gottschalk, Simon Johnson, Meghan, and Elizabeth Nguyen. Check out the corresponding blog post about the Knot Theory problem set these campers solved at https://girlstalkmath.com/2019/07/12/knot-theory-3/ Many thanks to Girls Rock NC’s Teen AXN League for the amazing intro/outro song!

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The boys get as spooky as they can with cellular automata, have a maths conversation about maths conversations and can't get past the fact that Brunnian and Borromean sound too similar. Odds and Evenings Twitter - https://twitter.com/OddsAndEvenings Website - http://www.oddsandevenings.com Topics discussed Zombies and Vampires The Maths of Conversations Brunnian Pumpkin Carving Show Notes Follow Up Maths Jam Annual Gathering Page (https://www.solipsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/MJ_Wiki.py?FrontPage) The Shade (Alex's New Podcast) (https://hacking.finance/read/?c=the-shade) Maths From the Show SIR Model Introduction by Alaric (http://www.alaricstephen.com/main-featured/2016/9/24/modelling-a-pandemic) SIR Model You Can Play With (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HxS1GttDPT8eDOhTIfOYckueArSJjGb5VfOr1hgqLno/edit?usp=sharing) Borromean Rings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromean_rings) Brunnian Links (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunnian_link)(more generalised) Pochhammer's Countour (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pochhammer_contour) A Classic Video on Brunnian Links (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heKK95DAKms&ab_channel=Vihart) (in the form of snakes), by Vi Hart Credits Hosted By Alaric - http://alaricstephen.com Alex - http://twitter.com/speakmouthwords Editing by Alex Following of the brief: bring halloween problems by Alaric Theme music by David Russell - https://youtube.com/DavidRussell323

Learn about the life and work of Erica Flapan as described by a group of high school girls attending the camp Girls Talk Math at the University of Maryland at College Park. By Dinah Aguilar, Meklit Amare, Jordan Dorsey, Nandi Edwards, and Lauren Witter. Check out the corresponding blog post about the Knot Theory problem set these campers solved at gtm.math.umd.edu/knottheory.html Many thanks to Girls Rock NC’s Teen AXN League for the amazing intro/outro song! This podcast was produced by UMD graduate student Sarah Burnett.

Learn about the life and work of Ruth Lawrence as described by a group of high school girls attending the camp Girls Talk Math at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. By Jillian Byrnes, Monique Dacanay, Kaycee DeArmey, Alana Drumgold, Ariyana Smith, and Wisdom Talley. Check out the corresponding blog post about the Knot Theory problem set these campers solved at girlstalkmath.com/2018/07/02/knot-theory-2/ ****Factual corrections (thank you to Dr. Ruth Lawrence for providing these corrections)**** 1:12 Then when she was 19 she moved to America, to become a Junior Fellow at Harvard - Dr. Lawrence moved to America a few months after her doctorate in October 1989 when she was 18 for a postdoc at Harvard. A year later she became a Junior Fellow (a very prestigious 3 yr postdoc at Harvard). 6:15-6:27 In 1987 she fell in love with Ari Naimark, an Israeli mathematician and followed him to Israel she became an observant Jew and learned Hebrew ... - While an assistant professor at University of Michigan, Dr. Lawrence became an observant Jew in 1996. She was promoted to a tenured Associate Professor at Michigan in 1997 and was also awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. She chose to use the fellowship to do research for a year in Israel at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1997-98). There she fell in love with Ari Naimark, an Israeli mathematician and then moved permanently to Israel in 1999. Many thanks to Girls Rock NC’s Teen AXN League for the amazing intro/outro song!

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