192 - What is Math?

On today’s episode: Bruce has no upper beak and complete authority over his circus. I built a deck in the middle of a drought! What is a drought? And why are we having one? All that and more today on All Around Science...RESOURCESMeet Bruce, the "beak-jousting" parrot - Ars Techn ...  Show more

On today’s episode: The second part of our chat about the amazingly successful journey that Integrity just went on with the Artemis 2 mission.CREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwith ...  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 ...