
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Alon Amit addresses the various facets of mathematics. Is it an art or a science? Both? Neither? Is it invented or discovered? Why is math that's developed for purely aesthetic reasons so often a useful tool for the real world? He likes that there are not simple, one-way answers. He challenges the listeners to post questions to Quora that surprise and delight him.
By Carol Jacoby4.7
2525 ratings
Alon Amit addresses the various facets of mathematics. Is it an art or a science? Both? Neither? Is it invented or discovered? Why is math that's developed for purely aesthetic reasons so often a useful tool for the real world? He likes that there are not simple, one-way answers. He challenges the listeners to post questions to Quora that surprise and delight him.

22,041 Listeners

43,984 Listeners

882 Listeners

521 Listeners

228 Listeners

112,586 Listeners

331 Listeners

56,435 Listeners

19,130 Listeners

2,337 Listeners

449 Listeners

9,913 Listeners

16,076 Listeners

489 Listeners

1,538 Listeners