Mathematical Objects

By Katie Steckles and Peter RowlettScience Mathematics

Mathematical Objects episodes

July 28, 2023 Mathematical Objects: Guitar with Sam Hartburn
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a guitar. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Sam Hartburn.
25 min
July 14, 2023 Mathematical Objects: On-Sets
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a 1960s game designed to teach set theory. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.
On-Sets: A Vintage Set Theory Game by Peter Rowlett is free to read in Math Horizons.
19 min
June 30, 2023 Mathematical Objects: A book with Sarah Hart
A conversation about mathematics and literature inspired by a book. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett with special guest Sarah Hart, author of Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature.
30 min
June 16, 2023 Mathematical Objects: Battenberg cake
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a Battenberg cake. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.
19 min
June 02, 2023 Mathematical Objects: Aperiodic monotile with Chaim Goodman-Strauss
A conversation about mathematics inspired by the new aperiodic monotile. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Chaim Goodman-Strauss.
The paper announcing the discovery is An aperiodic monotile by David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss.
Chaim was recording from MoMath in New York, which will be running a creative artwork competition based on the monotile with UKMT. Chaim also mentioned a meeting in Oxford: Hatfest: celebrating the discovery of an Aperiodic Monotile.
Note: This podcast was recorded after the discovery of the ‘hat’ and ‘turtle’ monotiles but before the announcement of the ‘spectre’ monotile. Confused? Don’t worry, we explain in the episode!
38 min
July 15, 2022 Mathematical Objects: Fingers with Ben Orlin
A conversation about mathematics inspired by some fingers. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Ben Orlin. Ben’s new book is Math Games with Bad Drawings.
33 min
July 01, 2022 Mathematical Objects: Quarto
A conversation about mathematics inspired by the game Quarto. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.
25 min
June 17, 2022 Mathematical Objects: Slinky
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a slinky. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.
15 min
June 03, 2022 Mathematical Objects: Nodal cubic with Angela Tabiri
A conversation about mathematics inspired by the nodal cubic. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. We go closer to the cutting edge of research than usual in this chat with Angela Tabiri about her PhD research.
25 min
May 20, 2022 Mathematical Objects: PageRank
A conversation about mathematics inspired by the PageRank algorithm. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.
23 min