My Favorite Theorem

Kevin Knudson & Evelyn Lamb
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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.

  1. 21/05/2025

    Episode 95 - Kyne Santos

    Kyne Santos, a drag queen and mathematics educator living in Canada, is a big fan of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Also hiking.

    36 min

  2. 06/02/2025

    Episode 94 - Jeremy Alm

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

    41 min

  3. 02/12/2024

    Episode 93 - Robin Wilson

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

    22 min

  4. 10/06/2024

    Episode 92 - Kate Stange

    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.

    30 min

  5. 03/04/2024

    Episode 91 - Karen Saxe

    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.

    34 min

  6. 23/01/2024

    Episode 90 - Corrine Yap

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

    34 min

  7. 12/11/2023

    Episode 89 - Allison Henrich

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

    35 min

  8. 09/10/2023

    Episode 88 - Tom Edgar

    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.

    26 min
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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.

Information

  • Creator
    Kevin Knudson & Evelyn Lamb
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2025
  • Episodes
    96
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Kevin Knudson & Evelyn Lamb
  • Show Website
    My Favorite Theorem

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