A collection of links to radio and podcast episodes (in English) with a mathematics bent — to inspire teachers to inspire, to feed the minds of our young mathematicians in the making, or, simply, to entertain. Programmes have been (loosely) categorised as shown below, and arranged alphabetically within each category by programme title or subject. The collection is updated regularly, but if you discover an interesting programme that is not included here, please do let me know in the comments.
Themes
For a list of links to the programmes from which episodes have been included in this selection, click here. I also provide a list of links to a selection of other, solely maths-focused podcasts at the bottom of this page (click here). Because their sole focus is on mathematics, I have not collated respective episodes of the podcasts in the thematic lists below.
Themes
- The History of Mathematics
- The People of Mathematics
- The Mathematics Itself
- Making Sense of things with Mathematics
- Making Sense of things with Statistics
- The Teaching of Mathematics, and the Mathematical Mind
- Other Mathematical Curios
For a list of links to the programmes from which episodes have been included in this selection, click here. I also provide a list of links to a selection of other, solely maths-focused podcasts at the bottom of this page (click here). Because their sole focus is on mathematics, I have not collated respective episodes of the podcasts in the thematic lists below.
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The History of Mathematics
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- A Very Brief History of Mathematics (34)
- Descarte's Meditations (17)
- Euclid’s Elements (1)
- From zero to infinity: a brief history of counting (24)
- History of the Infinite: 1 Horror of the infinite (8)
- History of the Infinite: 2 Aristotle's Rapprochment (8)
- History of the Infinite: 3 The Infinite and the Divine (8)
- History of the Infinite: 4 The Infinite and Human Experience (8)
- History of the Infinite: 5 The mathematics of the infinitely small (8)
- History of the Infinite: 6 The mathematics of the infinitely big (8)
- History of the Infinite: 7 Crisis and Uncertainty (8)
- History of the Infinite: 8 The Cosmos (8)
- History of the Infinite: 9 Death and Immortality (8)
- History of the Infinite: 10 Where Does this Leave Us? (8)
- Indian Mathematics (1)
- Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the maths Tablet (25)
- The Invention of Numbers (16)
- Leibniz's Monadology (17)
- Mathematics and Platonism (1)
- Maths in the Early Islamic World (1)
- Nirvana by Numbers (15)
- Origin of Numbers (7)
- Renaissance maths (1)
- Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (16)
The People of Mathematics
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The Mathematics Itself
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- Archimedes (1)
- Aryabhata: The Boat of Intellect (13)
- The Fields Medal 2014: Artur Avila (23)
- Roger Bacon (1)
- June Barrow-Green (23)
- Women of Mathematics: Natalia Berloff (23)
- The Fields Medal 2014: Manjul Bhargava (23)
- Nikolas Bourbaki (2)
- On the mathematical frontline: Ellen Brooks Pollock and Leon Danon (23)
- Georg Cantor (2)
- Eugenia Cheng (on the mathematics of mathematics) (15)
- Women of Mathematics: Nilanjana Datta (23)
- Women of Mathematics: Anne-Christine Davis (23)
- Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician: Aubrey de Grey (35)
- Emilie du Châtelet (1)
- Marcus du Sautoy (15)
- John Horton Conway: A Life in Games (35)
- (Inside the mind of renowned mathematician) John Conway (24)
- Maths on the red carpet – Fields Medallist Hugo Duminil-Copin (23)
- Albrecht Dürer (1)
- The Mathematicians who helped Einstein (2)
- Paul Erdős (1)
- Paul Erdős: The Mozart of Mathematics (18)
- Maria Esteban (23)
- Leonard Euler (2)
- Leonard Euler and Maths Communication (23)
- Richard Feynman (10)
- Alessio Figalli (23)
- Joseph Fourier (2)
- Galileo (10)
- Evariste Galois (2)
- Gödel (17)
- Gödel on Maths (17)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (2)
- Women of Mathematics: Julia Gog (23)
- The Fields Medal 2014: Martin Hairer (23)
- Hardy and Ramanujan (2)
- John Harrison and the Problem of Longitude (18)
- On the mathematical frontline: Ed Hill (23)
- Maths on the red carpet - Fields Medallist June Huh (23)
- Nalini Joshi (23)
- On the mathematical frontline: Matt Keeling (23)
- Omar Khayyam: Mathematics of the Sky (36)
- Johannes Kepler (1)
- Women of Mathematics: Holly Krieger (23)
- Ada Lovelace (1)
- Ada Lovelace (10)
- Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace, part 1 (34)
- Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace, part 2 (34)
- Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace, part 3 (34)
- Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace, part 4 (34)
- (James Clerk) Maxwell (1)
- Maths on the red carpet - Fields Medallist James Maynard (23)
- John Milnor: A conversation with a mathematical legend (23)
- Maryam Mirzakhani: A Genius of Maths (11)
- Clément Mouhout (23)
- Newton and Leibniz (2)
- Newton: A Matter of some Gravity (36)
- Florence Nightingale (10)
- Emmy Noether (1)
- Pascal (1)
- Roger Penrose (25)
- Cheryl Praeger (23)
- Pythagoras (1)
- Henri Poincaré (2)
- Ramanujan (18)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (10)
- Ramanujan, dream of the possible (23)
- Ramanujan: The Elbow of Genius (13)
- Frank Ramsey (10)
- Matteo Ricci: Jesuit and Geometrist (16)
- Bertrand Russel on Math and Logic (17)
- Peter Scholze: The Oracle of Arithmetic (35)
- Women of Mathematics: Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (23)
- Stas Smirnov (23)
- Ivan Smith (23)
- Mary Somerville (16)
- David Spiegelhalter (15)
- Ian Stewart (25)
- Steven Strogatz Says You Can Understand Math (32)
- Francis Su: To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics (35)
- Max Tegmark: It's All Maths (23)
- Jack Thorne (23)
- On the mathematical frontline: Mike Tildesley (23)
- Alan Turing (1)
- Akshay Venkatesh (23)
- Maths on the red carpet – Fields Medallist Maryna Viazovska (23)
- Cédric Villani (23)
- Cédric Villani: When Worlds Collide (23)
- Math Quartet Joins Forces on Unified Theory: Wei Zhang, Xinwen Zhu, Zhiwei Yun and Xinyi Yuan (35)
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- 3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems (35)
- The Bagel (3)
- The Blob (3)
- Calculus (1)
- Chaos Theory (1)
- The Cube (3)
- Desperately Seeking Symmetry (20)
- A Disappearing Number (23)
- Does Infinity Exist? (23)
- e (1)
- e (28)
- Everything you need to know about nothing (24)
- Feigenbaum's constant (28)
- Fermat’s Last Theorem (1)
- The Fibonacci Sequence (1)
- Game Theory (1)
- Game Theory (5)
- In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium (35)
- Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems (1)
- Golden Ratio (28)
- The Golden Ratio (4)
- How many dimensions are there? (23)
- The Hunt for Nothing (Zero) pt 1 (16)
- The Hunt for Noting (Zero) pt 2 (16)
- Imaginary numbers (1)
- The Imaginary number (4)
- Infinity (1)
- Infinity (4)
- Kepler's Conjecture (5)
- The Largest Prime (5)
- Logic (1)
- Mathematical Modelling with Lisa Jardine (14)
- Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (35)
- Mathematics (1)
- The mathematics of mathematics (with Eugina Cheng) (15)
- Negative Numbers (1)
- New Number Systems Seek Their Lost Primes (35)
- The Number Four (5)
- Numbers (20)
- The Number Seven (5)
- Numbers, Numbers Everywhere (7)
- One: The most popular number (6)
- P v NP (1)
- Packing spheres (23)
- Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem (35)
- Pi (1)
- Pi (4)
- Pi (28)
- 2 Pi (28)
- Pi (David Baddiel Tries to Understand) (16)
- The Poincaré Conjecture (1)
- (What's so exciting about a) Prime Number (9)
- Prime Numbers (1)
- Probability (1)
- The Problem of Infinite Pi(e) (16)
- A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End (35)
- The Pyramid (3)
- Rolling out the red carpet for the Travelling Salesman (23)
- Root 2 (28)
- The Science of Symmetry (7)
- Simple Set Game Proof Stuns Mathematicians (35)
- The Sphere (3)
- Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions (35)
- Symmetry (1)
- 1729: The First Taxicab number (6)
- To Infinity and Beyond (7)
- Two: At the Double (6)
- Two Infinities and Beyond Part 1 (16)
- Two Infinities and Beyond Part 2 (16)
- Zeno’s Paradoxes (1)
- Zero (1)
- Zero (4)
- 0 (28)
- 1 (28)
- 2 (28)
- 3 (28)
- 4 (28)
- 5 (28)
- 6 (28)
- 7 (28)
- 8 (28)
- 9 (28)
- 10 (28)
- 11 (28)
- 12 (28)
- 13 (28)
- 14 (28)
- 15 (28)
- 16 (28)
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- A tour through maths and music (23)
- Calculating the multiverse (23)
- Can Math Help You Fall in Love? (37)
- Codes and Code-breaking: The Enigma Machine (23)
- Cracking the Nazi Code (18)
- Einstein's evolving Universe (23)
- Emergence and the dynamics of crowds (23)
- Equations that changed the World (24)
- Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks (35)
- G: The Number that defines the Universe (6)
- The Geometry of Viruses (23)
- How do you calculate herd immunity? (23)
- How Maths underpins Science (16)
- How to predict our changing climate (23)
- How to Quantify (and Fight) Gerrymandering (35)
- In love with the art of mathematics (24)
- It's All Maths! (23)
- Laws of Nature (1)
- Logic (1)
- The Lucky Number: How Do I Win the Lottery? (16)
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence (23)
- Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos (35)
- The Magic of Maths (11)
- Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution’s Speed (35)
- A Math Theory for Why People Hallucinate (35)
- Our Mathematical Universe (24)
- The Mathematical Universe (23)
- Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations (35)
- Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs (35)
- Mathematics and Markets (16)
- Mathematics and Music (1)
- Mathematics in Nature (38)
- Mathematics for the Stock Market (38)
- The mathematics hidden behind Zaha Hadid's architecture (16)
- The Mathematics of Beauty (16)
- The Mathematics of Elections (16)
- The Mathematics of Fever (11)
- The Mathematics of Sport (24)
- Mathematics’ Unintended Consequences (1)
- Maths and Chess (11)
- The maths and magic of shuffling (23)
- Maths and Magic (16)
- Maths and Storytelling (1)
- Maths is more of an art than a science (16)
- Maths of Love and Sex (7)
- Maths Paths (33)
- The Maths of Dating (11)
- The Maths of Infidelity (11)
- The Maths of Mozart and Birds (11)
- The Maths of Spies and Terrorists (9)
- The Math that tells cells what they are (35)
- The Maths that inspires the work of visual artists (16)
- The Maths that inspires the work of writers (16)
- The Maths that inspires the work of musicians (16)
- The Measurement Of Time (1)
- The Measurement Problem in Physics (1)
- The Multiverse (1)
- The New Laws of Explosive Networks (35)
- Numbers by Nature (12)
- The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature (35)
- The Physics Of Time (1)
- Liv Boeree on Poker, Aliens, and Thinking in Probabilities (31)
- The power of ants (23)
- Relativity (1)
- Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics (35)
- Six Degrees (7)
- Six Degrees of Separation (6)
- Speed (7)
- Speed (20)
- Spirit of Bach (16)
- Stadium Maths (The maths of football stadiums) (23)
- A Study in Spheres (16)
- Steven Strogatz on Synchronization, Networks, and the Emergence of Complex Behavior (31)
- The Speed of Light (1)
- The Universe’s Origins (1)
- The Universe’s Shape (1)
- Weights and Measures (20)
- What Are The Mathematics of Jazz? (37)
- What happened before the Big Bang? (23)
- What is a Black Hole, Mathematically? (23)
- What is Infinity? (16)
- What is time? (23)
- Why Are Monster Prime Numbers Important? (37)
- Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data (35)
- Big data and shorter queues (23)
- Biostatistics - From cradle to grave (23)
- Chance (38)
- David McCandless. Transforming Data into Stories through Infographics (27)
- Debunking Guide - on a Postcard (11)
- Evaluating a Medical Treatment (23)
- The everyday mathematics of danger (24)
- The Folly of Prediction (19)
- Golden Ticket (11)
- Good Luck Professor Spiegelhalter (16)
- Hans Rosling (16)
- How to Beat the House and Win at Games (7)
- How to be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future (19)
- How to Make a Bad Decision (19)
- How to Win at Games and Beat People (19)
- Just How Rare is a Hole-In-One? (11)
- Living Standards and Kate Bush Maths (9)
- The Longest Long Shot (19)
- A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost (35)
- Luck, Fortune and Chance (37)
- Random and Pseudorandom (1)
- Randomness (7)
- The Random Request (16)
- Risk (7)
- Statistical vigilantes: the war on scientific fraud (24)
- Statistics of the Year 2017 (11)
- The Tour De France and the Statistics of Cheating (9)
- Using Statistics in Court (9)
- Weapons of math destruction: how big data and algorithms affect our lives (24)
- What are Sigma levels? (23)
- Why Don’t Patients Get Sick in Sync? Modelers Find Statistical Clues (35)
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- The Art of Teaching Math and Science (35)
- Books that Help Maths Teaching (26)
- Does 'Early Education' Come Way Too Late? (19)
- Don't Fear Maths (47)
- How Can Play Help Us Understand Math? (37)
- How Can We Encourage Girls To Keep Pursuing Math? (37)
- How to Teach Maths (16)
- How to Teach Maths (7)
- Inspiring Students with Steven Strogatz (21)
- The Mathematical Mind with Cedric Villani (14)
- Mathematical fluency: What does it mean, why is it important? (30)
- Mathematics: How Teachers Demystify Maths (16)
- Mathematics Relevance and Innovation with Denis Sheeran (29)
- Mathematics Teaching, With an Emphasis in the Unexpected (30)
- The power of mathematical play (30)
- Polya's problem solving strategies at work in the classroom (30)
- Rebuilding Mathematics Education with Sunil Singh (29)
- Rethinking Math Class with Conrad Wolfram (22)
- Schopenhauer on Explanations and Knowledge (17)
- Taking mathematical play into the classroom (30)
- Teaching Mathematics (16)
- Teenage Brain (7)
- Think Like a Child (19)
- What Can We Learn From The Russian Approach To Math Education? (37)
- What is the Mind: Turing et al. (17)
- What's It Like Being a Mathematician? (23)
- Why do we teach math, with Sunil Singh (30)
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- A New Map Traces the Limits of Computation (35)
- Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover (35)
- An Academic Impostor (18)
- Can we use maths to beat the robots? (11)
- The Counting Horse (16)
- Favourite Numbers (38)
- GCHQ (7)
- Greedy Guts and Useless Numbers (25)
- How maths can change your life (24)
- How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too (35)
- Land of the Rising Sums (16)
- Lewis Carroll in Numberland (23)
- Mathematics for Life: The Travelling Salesman Problem (38)
- Maths and the Mayflower (11)
- Physicists Hunt for the Big Bang’s Triangles (35)
- Pi: Legislating Pi (18)
- Simon Singh talks maths and The Simpsons (24)
- The Science of The Simpsons (24)
- The Seven Million Dollar maths Mystery (25)
- The story of the Gomboc (23)
- What's it like being a mathematician? (23)
- Why Do We Solve For 'X'? (37)
- Would Aliens understand maths (25)
The collection includes:
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- Select episodes from BBC Radio 4 In Our Time
- All episodes from BBC Radio 4 Marcus du Sautoy's A Brief History of mathematics
- All episodes from BBC Radio 4 Marcus du Sautoy's Five Shapes
- All episodes from BBC Radio 4 Simon Singh's Five Numbers
- All episodes from BBC Radio 4 Simon Singh's Another Five Numbers
- All episodes from BBC Radio 4 Simon Singh's A Further Five Numbers
- Select episodes from BBC Radio 4 The Infinite Monkey Cage
- All episodes from BBC Radio 4 A History of the Infinite
- Select episodes from BBC Radio 4 More Or Less
- Select episodes from BBC Radio 4 Great Lives
- Select episodes from BBC World Service More Or Less
- Select episodes from BBC Radio 4 Seriously
- Select episodes from BBC Radio 4 Incarnations: India in Fifty Lives
- Select episodes from BBC Radio 4 Start the Week
- Select episodes from BBC Radio 4 The Life Scientific
- Other programs from BBC Radio, including: Chinese Characters, David Baddiel Tries to Understand, The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry, Good Luck Professor Spiegelhalter, How to Teach Maths, Maths and Magic, Music Matters, The Essay: The Secret Mathematician
- Select episodes from The Partially Examined Life podcast
- Select episodes from Futility Closet podcast
- Select episodes from Freakonomics podcast
- Select episodes from Radiolab podcast
- Select episodes from Teach Better podcast
- Select episodes from Modern Learners podcast
- Select episodes from Plus Magazine podcasts
- Select episodes from The Guardian's Science Weekly podcast
- Select episodes from The Naked Scientists podcast
- Select episodes from The NCETM Maths podcast
- Select episodes from The James Altucher Show podcast
- Select episodes from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and BBC Radio Oxford Funbers
- Select episodes from Things Fall Apart podcast
- Select episodes from The Zone of Potential Construction podcast
- Select episodes from Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast
- Select episodes from Alan Alda's Clear and Vivid podcast
- Select episodes from the Big Picture Science show produced at the SETI Institute
- Select episodes from The Stephen Wolfram podcast
- Select episodes from Quanta magazine podcasts
- Select episodes from BBC Radio Cosmic Quest
- Select episodes from TED Radio Hour
- Select episodes from BBC Out for the Count
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- Breaking Math, by @breakingmathpod. A podcast that aims to make maths accessible to everyone, and make it enjoyable.
- Funbers, by @tomrocksmaths with BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and BBC Radio Oxford. A podcast looking at numbers closely to reveal some fun facts about them.
- Global Maths Department podcast, a group of math educators sharing what they’ve learned.
- Math Ed, by Samuel Otten University of Missouri. Interviews with mathematics education researchers about recent studies.
- Maths Appeal podcast, from Bobby Seagull and Susan Okereke, featuring discussions about key maths topics, maths puzzles, and interviews with maths champions from the worlds of tech, entertainment, comedy, and education.
- Mathematically Speaking podcast, a podcast that explores mathematics, mathematical philosophy and how that relates to the real world and our lives through the history of maths.
- Mathematical Moments podcast of the American Mathematical Society @amermathsoc, with each episode being accompanied by an explanatory poster.
- Mathematical Objects, a podcast with @stecks and @peterrowlett chatting about some aspect of mathematics using a mathematical object as inspiration.
- More or Less, from BBC Radio 4, with Tim Harford and the More or Less team trying to make sense of the statistics which surround us.
- Mr Barton Maths, a podcast of interviews from @mrbartonmaths with 'fellow teachers, bloggers, thinkers, or people of influence'.
- My Favourite Theorem, from @myfavethm with @niveknosdunk and @evelynjlamb. A podcast dedicated to sharing guests' favourite mathematical results.
- NCETM podcast, a podcast from the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics, exploring areas of interest and debate in the teaching of maths across all school and college phases.
- New Books in Mathematics, from @NewBooksNetwork. A podcast of 'interviews with Mathematicians about their new books.
- Odds and Evenings, a podcast about mathematics, puzzles, numbers and games.
- Opinionated History of Mathematics, a podcast sharing tales of historical mathematics and its interplay with science, philosophy, and culture.
- Plus Magazine podcast, a podcast of the online magazine that aims to introduce listeners to the beauty and the practical applications of mathematics.
- Puzzling Maths, a podcast where @RobEastaway and @AJMagicMessage set puzzles and talk about the quirky ways in which maths crops up in their everyday lives.
- RelPrime, a podcast 'featuring stories from the mathematical domain,' with @Samuel_Hansen.
- Speaking Tangentially, a series of talks and lectures from Oxford Mathematicians exploring the power and beauty of mathematics.
- Taking Maths Further, from @furthermaths with @peterrowlett and @stecks. Each episode 'takes a topic from the A-level Maths or Further Maths syllabus and looks at its applications.'
- The Numberphile podcast, where Brady Haran talks with mathematicians involved in the wonderful Numberphile videos in more depth.
- The Secrets of Mathematics podcast (audio and video), from the University of Oxford. A 'series of talks and lectures from Oxford Mathematicians exploring the power and beauty of their subject.'
- The Joy of x podcast, streamed here via Quanta Magazine, where mathematician and author Steven Strogatz interviews some of the world’s leading scientists about their lives and work.
- Travels in a Mathematical World, by @peterrowlett @IMAmaths. A 64-episode podcast featuring mathematicians talking about their work, features on maths history and news.
- The Universe Speaks in Numbers, a podcast from Faber Books with Graham Farmelo in conversation with some of the great names in modern physics and mathematics.
- Women in Math: The Limit Does Not Exist, by Damien Adams. A podcast to promote the visibility of women in mathematics.
- Wrong but Useful podcast, a podcast from Flying Colours Maths by Colin Beveridge.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteCan you recommend any inspiring maths teachers who would want to do regular Skype lessons for Cambridge A level Maths to a bright home educated boy, I'd be grateful.
Thanks Teena