My Favorite Theorem

Epizode

• Episode 95 - Kyne Santos 21.05.2025 35min

  Kyne Santos, a drag queen and mathematics educator living in Canada, is a big fan of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Also hiking.
• Episode 94 - Jeremy Alm 06.02.2025 40min

  Jeremy Alm likes the Rado graph, a weird object that captures all sorts of interesting properties of finite graphs. Also cheese.
• Episode 93 - Robin Wilson 02.12.2024 22min

  Robin Wilson likes the Hopf Index Theorem and we agree. Also, hot fudge.
• Episode 92 - Kate Stange 10.06.2024 29min

  Kate Stange is a number theorist who loves quadratic forms (and who doesn't, really). Her favorite theorem is the bijection between them and ideal classes. Also chocolate.
• Episode 91 - Karen Saxe 03.04.2024 34min

  Karen Saxe is an analyst who spends her days representing mathematics on Capitol Hill. She really likes the isoperimetric inequality and its many uses. Also tennis.
• Episode 90 - Corrine Yap 23.01.2024 33min

  Corrine Yap loves math, graph theory in particular, and also loves to perform her one-person play about Sonya Kovalevskaya. Also, tofu.
• Episode 89 - Allison Henrich 12.11.2023 35min

  Allison Henrich studies knots and her favorite theorem is about how one might unknot a knot. Also, music.
• Episode 88 - Tom Edgar 09.10.2023 26min

  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 result and will be happy to tell you about dozens of different ways to prove it. Also, Groundhog Day.
• Episode 87 - Tatiana Toro 07.09.2023 23min

  Tatiana Toro is a geometer and therefore loves the ur-theorem of geometry, "due" to Pythagoras. She also likes to walk.
• Episode 86 - Sarah Hart 20.07.2023 41min

  Gresham Professor of Geometry Sarah Hart likes cycloids and we talk at length about all their fascinating properties. Also, Moby Dick (or The Whale).
• Episode 85 - Matthew Kahle 02.06.2023 30min

  Euler's polyhedral formula continues to amaze Matthew Kahle as he finds it showing up in different places in mathematics. Also, Bach.
• Episode 84 - The Students of TCU 02.05.2023 50min

  Kevin visited Texas Christian University in March and recorded this episode with some math students. Excellent theorems and pairings.
• Episode 83 - Cihan Bahran 16.02.2023 26min

  Cihan Bahran has a popular twitter feed in which he shares surprising theorems. His favorite? Matrix mortality is undecidable.
• Episode 82 - Juliette Bruce 30.12.2022 29min

  Juliette Bruce is an algebraic geometer who loves to think about embedding curves in projective space. Also mountaineering.
• Episode 81 - Christopher Danielson 26.11.2022 33min

  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 out that polygons have same number of sides as vertices. Many shapes make an appearance.
• Episode 80 - Kimberly Ayers 21.10.2022 33min

  Kimberly Ayers likes dynamics and so obvs her fave theorem is Sharkovskii's result that "period 3 implies chaos." Also taffy.
• Episode 79 - Philip Ording 15.09.2022 34min

  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 around here.
• Episode 78 - Daina Taimina 11.08.2022 27min

  Daina Taimina is famous for her adventures in mathematical crocheting, but her favorite theorem comes from Desargues. She also likes to travel.
• Episode 77 - Tien Chih 13.07.2022 25min

  Tien Chih loves combinatorics, which means he really loves proving things by induction. In this episode we have a good time learning about this incredibly useful technique in mathematics.
• Episode 76 - Math Students of CSULA 09.06.2022 58min

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