Math-Life Balance

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The official podcast version of Mura Yakerson's YouTube channel Math-Life Balance. What Mura has to say about the content: "In this [podcast] I post my non-professional interviews with professional mathematicians. I ask my colleagues about their personal experience in math, their struggles and lifehacks. I hope that this shared experience would be helpful for other people in the math community, especially for young mathematicians!"

23 feb

Let's talk about "Women in math"! with Olga Paris-Romaskevich

This episode is about women in math, from the perspective of sociology! Many thanks to Olga Paris-Romaskevich for the conversation. Olga's webpage: https://olga.pa-ro.net/ The book "Matheuses": https://www.insmi.cnrs.fr/fr/matheuses Here is a link for Olga's talk on gender and mathematics: https://amubox.univ-amu.fr/s/SBRqbTLHSG5PFMF Here is a list of references Olga used when spoke about social psychology: 1) Definition of social stereotype : (Leyens, Yzerbut, Schadron, 1994), slide 7 2) Stereotype threat result : Spencer, Steele, & Quinn (1999). Stereotype Threat and Women’s Math Performance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 35 Social psychology : stereotype threat, slides 9 and 10 3) Aronson, J., Lustina, M. J., Good, C., Keough, K., Steele, C. M., & Brown, J. (1999). When White men can't do math: Necessary and sufficient factors in stereotype threat. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 35(1), 29–46. 4) pp.12-13 : John VS Jennifer study Moss-Racusin, Dovidio, Brescoll, Graham, & Handelsman (2012). PNAS, 109, 16474-16479 5) Begeny, C. T., Ryan, M. K., Moss-Racusin, C. A., & Ravetz, G. (2020). In some professions, women have become well represented, yet gender bias persists- Perpetuated by those who think it is not happening. Science advances, 6(26), eaba781 0:00 teaser 1:03 Olya's book about "math girls" 5:38 why there are so few women in math 9:01 brilliance as social construct 14:11 russian tease of women in math 18:05 math in the sociology book 22:35 why to make women only math events 30:33 and why we definitely need them 34:19 how to make a good outreach event 38:33 cool gender equity initiatives 41:12 Mura's experience in math as a girl 46:55 female role models in math 51:18 homage to Sophia Kovalevskaya 53:34 fun facts everyone should know! 58:56 moral support for women in math
16 feb

Interview with Richard Schwartz

Richard is a math professor at Brown University as well as an author of very funny books about math for kids! Enjoy learning about Richard and his adventures in the world of math and art :) Richard's webpage: https://www.math.brown.edu/reschwar/ Chapters: 0:00 teaser 0:33 why math books for kids 5:22 crazy cool visualizations vs obsessions 8:50 most of math is failure 13:23 accessibility vs precision in papers 17:55 what about abstract more math 23:25 being Thurston's student 29:32 advice for those who feel not good enough at math 32:42 how Richard almost quit math 34:41 story from Mura about Berkeley woods 35:45 Richard's famous April 1st prank 43:16 and other pranks 44:43 and the mask! oh my god the mask
9 feb

Interview with Jordan Ellenberg

Jordan is a mathematician as well as an author of popular books about mathematics, with great sense of humour. And this interview goes as wild as the picture of the interviewee on his webpage! Jordan's webpage: https://people.math.wisc.edu/~ellenberg/ Chapters: 0:00 intro 0:28 a year of writing fiction 4:12 what's hard about writing 11:31 finding math everywhere 15:19 cool thoughts on writing 22:58 teaching writing to math folks 24:55 pain & joy of bad writing 29:15 Jordan's workshop where we met 34:30 how to know when the article is ready 38:34 how to make interviews? 45:51 Mura complaining about interviewees :) 51:26 how people really feel about math 54:55 how to survive the lack of feedback 1:03:32 bringing standup tricks into writing 1:09:08 sentimental approach to finishing books 1:12:00 Jordan's book recommendation for us
2 feb

Interview with Steven Strogatz

Steven Strogatz, who works at Cornell University, is a well-known math popularizer and the first applied mathematician on Mura's channel. Enjoy their chat about unexpected applications of math, befogged communication amongst mathematicians and what not :) Steven's homepage: https://www.stevenstrogatz.com/ Chapters: 0:00 teaser 0:37 when catholic priests become useful 6:35 math, philosophy & couples therapy 13:23 Steven's studies on sleep 21:27 Steven's insecurities in math 24:21 what's wrong with math talks 34:13 no carrot, no stick... 38:24 opinion on strong opinions 41:34 advice about giving up 49:24 different approaches to graduate advising 52:27 chat about Mura's advisor 57:11 Steven Strogatz Prize for Math Communication 1:01:40 how to write friendly math outreach
26 gen

Interview with Dennis Gaitsgory

Enjoy the interview with Dennis Gaitsgory, who thinks about questions deeply yet answers lightly! Jokes included :) Dennis webpage: https://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/gaitsgde/ 0:00 teaser 0:30 attending a class by Witten 5:15 math vs physics: difference? 9:20 doing math: happiness and frustration 13:10 what changes with age 17:10 non-math problems: oh no! ;) 23:23 advice for getting back into math 26:45 how to prove Langlands correspondence... 31:49 when math doesn't work 33:25 raising kids: thoughts 36:00 book recommendation from Dennis 37:38 stories about India 40:36 beautiful non-math hobby 42:40 hot take on grant system 45:06 guess Dennis' favourite animal! 47:12 advice to young mathematicians
23 gen

Dennis Gaitsgory and Mura interview David Kazhdan

David Kazhdan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kazhdanhttp://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~kazhdan/ Dennis Gaitsgory: https://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/gaitsgde/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Gaitsgory Quanta article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/monumental-proof-settles-geometric-langlands-conjecture-20240719/ Israel Gelfand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Gelfand George Luszting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lusztig Vladimir Voevodsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Voevodsky 0:00 intro 0:25 why math 5:35 student of Gelfand 11:04 Langlands program & motives & physics 14:35 math heroes 16:37 main interest in math 21:01 how about math puzzles 24:34 approaches to hard problems 27:30 negative emotions? introspection? 31:41 collaboration with Lusztig 36:20 thoughts on Voevodsky 41:02 impressions from conferences 45:23 Harvard in the good old days 48:25 family connections
27/10/2025

Interview with Simon Singh

Simon Singh is, according to himself, "an author, journalist and TV producer, specialising in science and mathematics, the only two subjects I have the faintest clue about". In this interview we chat about various projects of Simon, from theatre festivals to math education in schools, and argue about math outreach. Have fun listening! Simon's webpage: simonsingh.net Parallel project: parallel.org.uk Math-Life Balance on YouTube: youtube.com/@math-life-balance Chapters: 0:00 teaser 0:41 math & magic at Fringe 9:15 cool math for teenagers 16:16 why kids really need it 18:52 confidence for various projects 20:41 Shakespeare in math class? 28:51 what could go wrong 30:48 outreach and effectivity 34:56 Simon gets annoyed :) 37:03 too much outreach? 39:50 math in Simpsons and writing 44:38 sweet book selling story 46:45 how I learned about Simon
10/10/2025

Interview with @3blue1brown‬

Grant Sanderson is the creator of the coolest math youtube channel, "3blue1brown". In this interview, Grant and Mura chat about a bunch of different topics, such as feelings towards abstract math, and even hear Grant read a piece from his poem. Enjoy Grant's beautiful thoughts and exquisite English!Grant's channel: youtube.com/ 3blue1brownGrant's homepage: 3blue1brown.com/aboutGrant's poetry: 3blue1brown.com/blog/poemsThe Math-life balance YouTube channel: youtube.com/@math-life-balanceChapters: 0:00 teaser 0:45 introducing Grant and his job 2:52 struggles of having a popular YouTube channel 6:03 sociology of math outreach 10:36 why people love 3blue1brown 13:22 how to popularize abstract math 17:40 making algebraic K-theory popular 21:17 how to measure success 27:16 did god hand you the definition of a topological space? 32:27 who writes wiki pages and and why 36:13 which feelings cause abstraction 44:39 what if you don't understand math 46:49 unpacking genius 51:48 how Grant deals with the frustration of not understanding math 55:16 Grant's poetry 1:01:47 Grant's question to mathematicians 1:03:38 advice from Grant

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The official podcast version of Mura Yakerson's YouTube channel Math-Life Balance. What Mura has to say about the content: "In this [podcast] I post my non-professional interviews with professional mathematicians. I ask my colleagues about their personal experience in math, their struggles and lifehacks. I hope that this shared experience would be helpful for other people in the math community, especially for young mathematicians!"

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Mura Yakerson
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2021 - 2026
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33
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21/05/2025