Let's talk about "Women in math"! with Olga Paris-Romaskevich
This episode is about women in math, from the perspective of sociology! Many thanks to Olga Paris-Romaskevich for the conversation. Olga's w...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & Podcasts
Science & Medicine
Math-Life Balance
The official podcast version of Mura Yakerson's YouTube channel Math-Life Balance. What Mura has to say about the content: "In this [podcast] I post my non-professional interviews with profe...
Episodes
20 of 33 episodes
Interview with Richard Schwartz
Richard is a math professor at Brown University as well as an author of very funny books about math for kids! Enjoy learning about Richard a...
Interview with Jordan Ellenberg
Jordan is a mathematician as well as an author of popular books about mathematics, with great sense of humour. And this interview goes as wi...
Interview with Steven Strogatz
Steven Strogatz, who works at Cornell University, is a well-known math popularizer and the first applied mathematician on Mura's channel. En...
Interview with Dennis Gaitsgory
Enjoy the interview with Dennis Gaitsgory, who thinks about questions deeply yet answers lightly! Jokes included :) Dennis webpage: https://...
Dennis Gaitsgory and Mura interview David Kazhdan
David Kazhdan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kazhdan http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~kazhdan/ Dennis Gaitsgory: https://people.mpim-bonn.mpg...
Interview with Simon Singh
Simon Singh is, according to himself, "an author, journalist and TV producer, specialising in science and mathematics, the only two subjects...
Interview with @3blue1brown
Grant Sanderson is the creator of the coolest math youtube channel, "3blue1brown". In this interview, Grant and Mura chat about a bunch of d...
Interview with Jeremiah Heller and Vesna Stojanoska
In this interview, Jeremiah Heller and Vesna Stojanoska share their experience of combining math and family life, discuss their ways to get...
Interview with Dhruv Ranganathan
Dhruv Ranganathan is a lecturer at Cambridge University, working in algebraic geometry. In this video, Dhruv talks about doing research with...
Interview with Kevin Buzzard
Kevin Buzzard is a professor in Imperial College London working in number theory and formal proof verification. In this interview, Kevin sha...
Interview with Maria Chudnovsky
Maria Chudnovsky is a professor at Princeton University, working in graph theory and combinatorics. In this interview, Maria shares her pers...
Interview with Tomer Schlank
Tomer Schlank is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working in homotopy theory and arithmetic geometry. In this interview, T...
Interview with Saul Glasman
Saul Glasman worked in homotopy theory and K-theory, and now works as a software engineer. In this interview, we discuss the hardships of ac...
Interview with Giulia Saccà
Giulia Saccà is an assistant professor at Columbia University, working in algebraic geometry. In this interview, Giulia gives jobmarket advi...
William Thurston "On proof and progress in mathematics"
In this [episode], I read a piece from Thurston's essay "On proof and progress in mathematics", where he reflects on the importance of seein...
How to become the worst researcher in the world
This sarcastic [episode] is dedicated to my family and all my friends of the last 10 years. They will see why. A special thanks to Nicole R....
Interview with Irakli Patchkoria
Irakli Patchkoria is a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, working in homotopy theory. In this interview, he speaks about math-tennis ba...
Interview with Peter Scholze
Peter Scholze is a professor in Bonn University, working in number theory and arithmetic geometry. In this interview, we chat about the pres...
Interview with Ravi Vakil
Ravi Vakil is a professor at Stanford University, working in algebraic geometry. In this interview, Ravi talks about the importance of a com...