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My Favorite Theorem

Kevin Knudson

Join us as we spend each episode talking with a mathematical professional about their favorite result. And since the best things in life come in pairs, find out what our guest thinks pairs b...

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Listen to My Favorite Theorem, a Science & Medicine podcast by Kevin Knudson. Stream 96 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episode 95 - Kyne Santos

Kyne Santos, a drag queen and mathematics educator living in Canada, is a big fan of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Also hiking.

00:35:37May 21, 2025

Episode 94 - Jeremy Alm

Jeremy Alm likes the Rado graph, a weird object that captures all sorts of interesting properties of finite graphs. Also cheese.

00:40:45Feb 6, 2025

Episode 92 - Kate Stange

Kate Stange is a number theorist who loves quadratic forms (and who doesn't, really). Her favorite theorem is the bijection between them and...

00:29:37Jun 10, 2024

Episode 91 - Karen Saxe

Karen Saxe is an analyst who spends her days representing mathematics on Capitol Hill. She really likes the isoperimetric inequality and its...

00:34:17Apr 3, 2024

Episode 90 - Corrine Yap

Corrine Yap loves math, graph theory in particular, and also loves to perform her one-person play about Sonya Kovalevskaya. Also, tofu.

00:33:46Jan 23, 2024

Episode 89 - Allison Henrich

Allison Henrich studies knots and her favorite theorem is about how one might unknot a knot. Also, music.

00:35:04Nov 12, 2023

Episode 88 - Tom Edgar

We all know the (probably apocryphal) story of Gauss adding up the first 100 positive integers as a child. Well, Tom Edgar really likes this...

00:26:15Oct 9, 2023

Episode 87 - Tatiana Toro

Tatiana Toro is a geometer and therefore loves the ur-theorem of geometry, "due" to Pythagoras. She also likes to walk.

00:23:42Sep 7, 2023

Episode 86 - Sarah Hart

Gresham Professor of Geometry Sarah Hart likes cycloids and we talk at length about all their fascinating properties. Also, Moby Dick (or Th...

00:41:14Jul 20, 2023

Episode 85 - Matthew Kahle

Euler's polyhedral formula continues to amaze Matthew Kahle as he finds it showing up in different places in mathematics. Also, Bach.

00:30:49Jun 2, 2023

Episode 84 - The Students of TCU

Kevin visited Texas Christian University in March and recorded this episode with some math students. Excellent theorems and pairings.

00:50:21May 2, 2023

Episode 83 - Cihan Bahran

Cihan Bahran has a popular twitter feed in which he shares surprising theorems. His favorite? Matrix mortality is undecidable.

00:26:52Feb 16, 2023

Episode 82 - Juliette Bruce

Juliette Bruce is an algebraic geometer who loves to think about embedding curves in projective space. Also mountaineering.

00:29:20Dec 30, 2022

Episode 81 - Christopher Danielson

Technically this is a theorem, but it seems so obvious that it's unclear that it needs a proof. In this episode Christopher Danielson points...

00:33:13Nov 26, 2022

Episode 80 - Kimberly Ayers

Kimberly Ayers likes dynamics and so obvs her fave theorem is Sharkovskii's result that "period 3 implies chaos." Also taffy.

00:33:56Oct 21, 2022

Episode 79 - Philip Ording

Philip Ording wrote a cool book (you should check it out) and he likes the Erlangen Program. Not really a theorem, but we're not purists aro...

00:34:32Sep 15, 2022

Episode 78 - Daina Taimina

Daina Taimina is famous for her adventures in mathematical crocheting, but her favorite theorem comes from Desargues. She also likes to trav...

00:27:40Aug 11, 2022

Episode 77 - Tien Chih

Tien Chih loves combinatorics, which means he really loves proving things by induction. In this episode we have a good time learning about t...

00:25:53Jul 13, 2022

Episode 76 - Math Students of CSULA

We are joined by a group of math students at Cal State University in Los Angeles for a diverse collection of theorems and pairings.

00:58:35Jun 9, 2022

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