Interested in the connections between art and science? Then come to this free public lecture at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge on March 14, 2012 to hear theoretical physicist David Berman and artist Grenville Davey talk about string theory as an inspiration to art.read more
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Episode 2 of "Inspired by Math" is an interview with William Cook, author of "In Pursuit of the Travelings Salesman." William Cook is the Chandler Family Chair and Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. More information about his book is at the Princeton University Press site. More information about the [...]
Today, on St. Valentine's Day, I'm launching a series of podcasts which I call "Inspired by Math." In these podcasts I explore the two-part burning question - How is that some people are inspired by Math and how can we bottle that? Keith Devlin gave me the gift of 32 minutes of his insights. More [...]