Episodes List
David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
24 Aug, 2020Satyan Devadoss, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries" (MIT Press, 2020)
13 Aug, 2020Cailin O’Connor, "Games in the Philosophy of Biology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
10 Jul, 2020B. Fong and D. I. Spivak, "An Invitation to Applied Category Theory: Seven Sketches in Compositionality" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
08 Jul, 2020Ben Cohen, "The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks" (Custom House, 2020)
25 Jun, 2020Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
02 Jun, 2020Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
28 Apr, 2020Alex Berke, "Beautiful Symmetry: A Coloring Book about Math" (MIT Press, 2020)
22 Apr, 2020Paul Nahin, "Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons" (Princeton UP, 2020)
03 Apr, 2020Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
30 Mar, 2020Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
25 Feb, 2020K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
30 Jan, 2020Christopher J. Phillips, "Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know About Baseball" (Princeton UP, 2019)
29 Jan, 2020Brian Clegg, "Conundrum: Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge" (Icon Books, 2019)
28 Jan, 2020David Spiegelhalter, "The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data" (Basic, 2019)
13 Dec, 2019Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
03 Dec, 2019Gary Meisner, "The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics" (Race Point Press, 2018)
22 Nov, 2019Julian Havil, "Curves for the Mathematically Curious" (Princeton UP, 2019)
15 Nov, 2019Margaret E. Schotte, "Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
14 Nov, 2019Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
03 Nov, 2019David S. Richeson, "Tales of Impossibility" (Princeton UP, 2019)
30 Oct, 2019J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
24 Oct, 2019David Lindsay Roberts, "Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
17 Oct, 2019Alfred S. Posamentier, "Tools to Help Your Children Learn Math" (WSPC, 2019)
16 Sep, 2019Davide Crippa, The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century" (Birkhäuser, 2019)
28 Aug, 2019Chris Bernhardt, "Quantum Computing for Everyone" (MIT Press, 2019)
02 May, 2019Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
19 Mar, 2019Kartik Hosanagar, "A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives" (Viking, 2019)
12 Mar, 2019Andrew C. A. Elliott, “Is That a Big Number?” (Oxford UP, 2018)
09 Nov, 2018