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The Quanta Podcast

Every Tuesday, editor in chief Samir Patel sits down with writers and editors to discuss our most thought-provoking stories in science and math. Audio editions of Quanta’s stories with Susan Valot will appear biweekly on Thursdays.

All Episodes about mathematics

Man in a blue shirt in front of a blackboard.
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The Quietest Mathematician Has Always Been Worth Listening To

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Graduate Student Proves a Quantum Uncertainty Principle for Fractals

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Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else

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Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle

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The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof

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‘Reverse Mathematics’ Illuminates Why Hard Problems Are Hard

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‘Huge Breakthrough’ in the Math of Imbalance

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A complicated surface that looks like a loofah.
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New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities

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Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?

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What Is the Fourier Transform?

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How Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for AI in Math

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The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived

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What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?

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A fish with numbers on the side floating in a fishtank in the ocean. Other fish swim by.
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New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes the Borders of Disorder

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In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far?

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The Man Who Stole Infinity

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