192 - What is Math?

On today’s episode: What makes a stable star start to flicker wildly? Electrons are really a lot slower than you think they are. All that and more today on All Around Science...RESOURCESUW astronomers collect rare evidence of two planets colliding CREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenb ...  Show more

On today’s episode: There’s a new ant species that is all queens. We answer listener questions about hair! All that and more today on All Around Science...RESOURCESArtemis III not going to the moonEvery ant is a queen in this parasitic species — and they reproduce by cloning them ...  Show more

In this episode, Robert and Julie take a sweeping look at math, addressing several important questions. For example: What is math? Where does math come from? What mathematical skills are we born with and how much can we understand?

🎙️ Dans son livre « La petite histoire des flocons de neige », le mathématicien Etienne Ghys dépeint le monde merveilleux des flocons de neige. Aujourd'hui, sur Maths en tête, on lève la tête vers le ciel, à quelques jours des fêtes, et on se prend à espérer voir tomber les floc ...  Show more

Whether it's Art Garfunkel's mathematics degree or the structure of the chromatic scale, it's easy to correlate music and math. But why are so many musical minds also well suited for number crunching? Tune in to learn more about music and math.

What’s the importance of zero, and how was it discovered? How do scientists calculate Pi’s infinite digits? Why do so many people find maths difficult – and what’s the most difficult thing in maths?

CrowdScience takes on a whole bunch of questions sent in by high school ...