The Privatdozent Podcast The History of Mathematics

This episode of The Privatdozent Podcast is based on the July 3rd 2021 newsletter 'Einstein and Hilbert's Relativity Race'. Read by Steve King, the episode is about events from November 1915 when Einstein and Hilbert were engaged in a race to find the correct mathematical foundation for the theory of general relativity.
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Chapters: Welcome (00:00), Introduction (00:20), Timeline of Relativity Theory (02:37), November 2015 (08:45), The Dispute (16:12), What is Indisputable (21:16).
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This episode of The Privatdozent Podcast is based on the October 2nd 2021 newsletter 'The Martians of Budapest'. Read by Steve King, the episode is about nine Hungarian men who all made significant contributions to mathematics, physics and economics in the 20th century.
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This episode of The Privatdozent Podcast is based on the June 7th 2021 newsletter 'The Einstein-Szilárd Letter'. Read by Steve King, the episode is about the period from the discovery of the nuclear fission in January of 1939 to the writing of the so-called Einstein-Szilárd letter for Frankling D. Roosevelt in July.
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Chapters: Welcome (00:00), Leo Szilárd’s Role (01:11), Einstein’s Role (12:26), The Letter (12:40), The Einstein-Szilárd Letter (17:59)


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This episode of The Privatdozent Podcast is based on the July 23rd 2021 newsletter 'The Eccentricities of J. Robert Oppenheimer'. Read by Steve King, the episode is an introduction to the life of Julius Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.
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Chapters: Welcome (00:00), Introduction (00:37), Early Life (03:28), At Harvard (11:09), At Cambridge (13:35), At Göttingen (20:17), Research (25:33), The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation (26:18), The Oppenheimer-Phillips Process (30:58), The Manhattan Project (33:58), The Trinity Test (40:24), The Institute for Advanced Study (46:06), FBI Investigation (47:37), Personality (49:36), Death (59:38), Clip from Interview with Edward R. Murrow (01:00:34).


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This episode of The Privatdozent Podcast is based on the May 25th 2021 newsletter ‘The Bohr-Einstein Debate'. Read by Steve King, the episode is about Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein's public debate about quantum mechanics, which began during the Solvay Conference in 1927.
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Chapters: Welcome (00:00), Where it Started (02:27), The Copenhagen Interpretation (03:31), History (06:46), Einstein’s First Criticism (10:58), Bohr’s Response (12:55), Einstein’s Second Criticism (14:11), Bohr’s Triumph (16:12), Einstein’s Fourth Criticism (21:29), Bohr’s Response (26:23), Epilogue (27:30).


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This episode of The Privatdozent Podcast is based on the March 22nd 2021 newsletter 'On Norbert Wiener's Relationship with Bertrand Russell'. Read by Steve King, the episode is about the period 1911-14 when Ludwig Wittgenstein and Norbert Wiener were students of Bertrand Russell at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Chapters: Welcome (00:00), Introduction (00:19), Young Norbert Wiener (00:45), Russell’s View in 1913 (05:22), The Other Boy Genius (07:29), Norbert’s Relationship with Leo (10:19), Wiener Arrives in Cambridge (13:06), Russell’s View (16:55), Wiener and Hardy (19:31).


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