Lectures tagged "Mathematics"


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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
February 2, 2010
00:49:06
Award-winning novelist and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Newberger Goldstein reads from her new novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God. After Cass Seltzer's book becomes a surprise best seller, he's dubbed "the atheist with a soul" and becomes a celebrity.
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Rebecca Goldstein: The Atheist with a Soul
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
January 30, 2010
Author and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein discusses her latest work, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, which is perhaps best described as a hybrid.
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Christos H. Papadimitriou
October 28, 2009
00:51:45
Author and computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou discusses his new graphic novel-ized biography of the philosopher and logician Bertrand Russell, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth.
Earth Changes and the Procession of the Equinox
Randall Carlson
August 9, 2009
01:52:00
Randall Carlson tries to dispel misunderstandings surrounding the Earth's changes and place the subject on a solid scientific foundation. He uses mythic traditions of the past with scientific research in the fields of geology, astronomy, paleontology, archeology and ancient history.
Richard Goodwin: Two Men of Florence
Richard Goodwin
March 19, 2009
00:57:51
Playwright Richard Goodwin and his wife, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, discuss the Huntington Theatre's production of Richard's Two Men of Florence, a drama about the struggle between Galileo Galilei, a man of science, and Pope Urban VIII, a man of faith.
Sabermetrics: Talking Stats with Two Baseball Insiders
George William James
June 19, 2008
01:17:11
Bill James and Rob Neyer give the statistical inside scoop on everything baseball from what makes the legends great, to who is overrated and why.
Celebrating Leonhard Euler and Sudoku
Ulrich Huhn
April 27, 2007
01:26:55
Mathematicians celebrate the 300th birthday of the great Swiss mathematician and scientist Leonhard Euler (1707-1783).
Pluto: Planetary Peril in Prague
Owen Gingerich
April 4, 2007
01:02:16
Owen Gingerich, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, explains how Pluto was recently put into category different from the other planets.