MAA Podcast Center
Lectures
Chaos Games and Fractal Images - Robert L. Devaney, Boston University - June 28, 2012
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The Remarkable Interaction between Mathematics and the Computer: Examples Old and New - Jill Pipher, Brown University - April 30, 2012
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Data Mining: Fool's Gold? Or the Mother Lode? - Richard De Veaux, Williams College - April 12, 2012
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March Mathness - Tim Chartier, Davidson College - February 28, 2012
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Aspects of Chaos - James A. Yorke - November 17, 2011
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The Many Names of (7,3,1) and the Unity of Discrete Mathematics - Ezra "Bud" Brown - September 21, 2011
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Escher and the Droste Effect - Bart de Smit - April 4, 2011
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Cryptography: How to Keep a Secret - Alice Silverberg - December 8, 2010
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The Idea of Holonomy - Robert Bryant - October 14, 2010
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Math and Art: The Good, the Bad, and the Pretty - Annalisa Crannell - September 23, 2010
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Primes and Zeros: A Million Dollar Mystery -Brian Conrey - July 28, 2010
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Mathematics and Music - James Stewart - April 27, 2010
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Is Tiger Woods a Winner?- Scott Berry - April 1, 2010
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Mathematics and Robotics - Florian Potra - March 4, 2010
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Modeling Similarity in the Age of Data - Kevin McCurley - November 19, 2009
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Hyperbolic Wallpaper - Frank A. Farris - September 9, 2009
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Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples? - Keith Devlin - July 1, 2009
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From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes - Robert Lang - June 25, 2009
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The Mathematics Behind Tom Stoppard's Arcadia - Michele Osherow, Manil Suri, and Erin Weaver - May 18, 2009
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Mathematical Poetry - JoAnne Growney and Karren Alenier - April 28, 2009
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Low Energy Pathways in Space, Chaos and Random Walk - Edward Belbruno, Princeton University - April 2, 2009
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The Fourth Dimension - Michael Starbird, University of Texas at Austin - March 19, 2009
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Provincial Polynomia: Uncommon Excursions for the Seasoned Visitor - Dan Kalman, American University - March 12, 2009
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Patterns in the Primes - Andrew Granville, University of Montreal - November 13, 2008
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Spinning Heads and Spinning News: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Media - Rebecca Goldin, George Mason University - October 28, 2008
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Modeling with Cubes - Ruth Charney, Brandeis University - October 14, 2008
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The Politics of Writing Histories of Non-Western Mathematics - George Gheverghese Joseph, University of Manchester - September 23, 2008
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Patterns Patterns Everywhere - Martin Golubitsky, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University - August 21, 2008
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"When Mathematics Changed the World" - Keith Devlin, Stanford University - July 2, 2008
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"Right Triangles and Elliptic Curves" - Karl Rubin, University of California, Irvine - May 16, 2008
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"What Can We Say After We Say We're Sorry? or, Adventures in Optimization" - Margaret Wright, New York University - March 5, 2008
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"Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture" - David Bressoud, Macalester College - September 19, 2007
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"The Joy of Solving Equations" - Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley - May 17, 2007
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Invited Speaker Previews
2011
Sea battles, Benjamin Franklin's Oil Lamp, and Jellybellies - Katherine Socha, Saint Mary's College of Maryland
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Lessons from the Netflix Prize - Robert Bell, AT&T
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2010
Reasonable Effectiveness: Trigonometry, Ancient Astronomy, and the Birth of Applied Mathematics - Glenn Van Brummelen, Quest University
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Symplectic Embeddings and Continued Fractions - Dusa McDuff, Barnard College, Columbia University
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2009
Mathemagic with a Deck of Cards on the Interval Between 5.700439718 and 806.... - Colm Mulcahy, Spelman College
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Classical structure in modern geometry, or modern structure in classical geometry - Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
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Perfect Graphs-Structure and Recognition - Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University
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Integrable Systems: A Modern View - Percy Deift, Courant Institute-New York University
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Stacking Bricks and Stoning Crows - Peter M. Winkler, Dartmouth College
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Stability, Consistency, and Convergence: Modern Variations on a Classical Theme - Douglas Arnold, University of Minnesota
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2008
4000 Years of Algebra: An Historic Tour From BM 13901 to Moderne Algebra - Karen Parshall, University of Virginia
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The Riemann Hypothesis - J. Brian Conrey, The American Institute of Mathematics
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The Mathematics of PageRank - Fan Chung, University of California San Diego
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Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers - Terence Tao, University of California Los Angeles
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Do Dogs Know Calculus? Bifurcations at the Beach - Tim Pennings, Hope College
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