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My Favorite Theorem

by Kevin Knudson & Evelyn Lamb
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About the show

Join us as we spend each episode talking with a mathematical professional about their favorite result. And since the best things in life come in pairs, find out what our guest thinks pairs best with their theorem.

Latest episodes

  • Episode 95 - Kyne Santos

    May 21, 2025 · 36 min

    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

    February 6, 2025 · 41 min

    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

    December 2, 2024 · 22 min

    Robin Wilson likes the Hopf Index Theorem and we agree. Also, hot fudge.

  • Episode 92 - Kate Stange

    June 10, 2024 · 30 min

    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

    April 3, 2024 · 34 min

    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

    January 23, 2024 · 34 min

    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

    November 12, 2023 · 35 min

    Allison Henrich studies knots and her favorite theorem is about how one might unknot a knot. Also, music.

  • Episode 88 - Tom Edgar

    October 9, 2023 · 26 min

    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…