Strongly Connected Components

On today’s episode Samuel Hansen has a conversation with CEO and Co-Founder of the surprisingly mathematical dating website OK Cupid. They discuss how OK Cupid mathematically translates real world dating to the online realm, the perfect length of a message, and why your online grammar is the equivalent of brushing your teeth in the real world. Sam …

On today’s episode Samuel Hansen has a conversation with noted mathematical journalist, Director of Publications and Communications for the Mathematical Association of America, and, most importantly, the Mathematical Tourist Ivars Peterson. You can find out more about Ivars Peterson on his website and can find his columns at the MAA. Download this Episode [wpaudio url=”http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/190991787-acmescience-scc-13-ivars-peterson.mp3″]

For today’s episode of Strongly Connected Components Samuel Hansen called up director of the American Institute of Mathematics Brian Conrey. Together they talked about the AIM library, whymath circles and square mathematicians are a good thing, and just what the math castle is. To find out more about Brian Conrey visit his website and to find out more about AIM just …

Joseph Gallian is a Mathematics Professor at the university of Minnesota-Duluth. Samuel Hanse spoke with him at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Francisco about his text book Contemporary Abstract Algebra, the mathematics movie Hard Problems he executive produced, how he cracked the Driver’s License code, and more about the Beatles than you could think would be on a …

Samuel Hansen caught up with professor Richard Stanley at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco, where they talked about the colloquium lectures he was to give, over 100 different definitions of the Catalan Numbers, and just what the path is from wanting to be a ventriloquist to becoming a mathematician. You can find Professors Stanly’s foundational …

Samuel Hansen spoke with Steven Strogatz from Cornell University at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Francisco where Professor Strogatz presented a talk about his fantastic(review soon to come) new book The Calculus of Friendship. They spoke about: Breadth versus Depth, what a friendship based on mathematics can be, and Samuel even gets Steven to retell a Radio …

Olga Holtz is a professor at University of California Berkley and Technischen Universität Berlin. Samuel Hansen spoke with Professor Holtz at the 2010 Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Francisco, California where she was an invited speaker. They discussed: her talk in Zonotopal Algebra, the difference between working in the USA and Germany, and the bottleneck of communication. …

The guest on today’s program is Professor Joshua Cooper from the University of South Carolina. He and your host Samuel Hansen discuss: the private sector vs. the academic, just how proofs are important in child rearing, how roto-routers and liars are connected. To find out more about Joshua Cooper please visit his website. Download this …

On today’s episode of Strongly Connected Components I speak with Lance Fortnow, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University and founder/co-author of the Computational Complexity Blog. We discuss just what computational Complexity is, P vs. NP, economics and computational     complexity, as well as how the internet is helping to build better scientific …

My guest on the fifth episode of Strongly Connected Components is Professor Andrew Granville Canadian Research Chair in Number Theory at the University of Montreal. We discuss what pretentiousness means mathematically, the importance of enjoying doing mathematics, and how to use Zahod Beeblebrox in a proof. To find out more about Professor Granville’s reasearch and to read …