The Function Room

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Category: Mathematics

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Subscribers: 42
Reviews: 1
Episodes: 51

John
 Oct 5, 2020
super stuff! Well paced funny discussion about sums :)

Description

A podcast about the big numbers, the hard sums, the mathematics that defines, runs, shapes, changes, begins, ends, every things our lives and the world around us. Hosted by Colm O'Regan. An award-winning radio broadcaster, comedian, novelist and it turns out lapsed engineer who is trying to feel useful again. Each episode sheds light on a tiny corner of a giant subject with entertaining guests and accessible talk.

Episode Date
51 Great xPectations with Paul McDonald.
Aug 03, 2024
50 Talking Ballots with Adrian Kavanagh
Jul 14, 2024
49 The Hole Shebang - Black Holes with Dr John Regan
Jun 26, 2024
48 Object Lesson
May 28, 2024
47 Body to Body to Body with Dr Matt Kenzie
May 16, 2024
46 Census Sensibility with Dr Jessica Coyne.
Apr 17, 2024
45 Empire of the Sum a history of the pocket calculator
Mar 15, 2024
44 (Replay) Algorithm and Blues with Cathy O'Neill
Mar 07, 2024
43 Potential Energy - the Mathematics of Energy Modelling
Feb 29, 2024
42 That's So Derivative - Mathematics at the Movies with John Fardy
Feb 22, 2024
41 Re: Volts with David Roberts
Feb 06, 2024
40 H2 Oh! with Catherine Sheridan
Jan 29, 2024
39 There's Been a Breakthrough with TJ Hegarty.
Jan 22, 2024
38 The Auld Sthretch with Éibhear Ó hAnluain
Dec 13, 2023
37 This Goes All The Way to the Top with David Robert Grimes
Nov 29, 2023
36 Murderous Math with Kjartan Poskitt
Nov 22, 2023
35 Riemann Reason with Dr Alex Kontorovich
Nov 09, 2023
34 Sea Change with Joanna Donnelly
Oct 27, 2023
33 Climate Worrier
Oct 19, 2023
32 All the Pieces Matter
Oct 16, 2023
31 It's in Our Nature
Oct 04, 2023
30 Anyone's Guess
Sep 21, 2023
29 The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
Sep 11, 2023
28 Things Fall Apart
Jul 10, 2023
27 A Sense of Ounce
Jul 03, 2023
26 Chums' Pedigree
Jun 28, 2023
#25 Crime Numbers
Jun 19, 2023
24 Carbon of Contention
Jun 09, 2023
23 What the Butler Saw with John Butler
May 24, 2023
#22 Once Upon A Prime with Sarah Hart
May 15, 2023
#21 Drawing by Numbers with Ayliean MacDonald
May 06, 2023
Boyle Points - the story of a gas man
May 01, 2023
The Weather Forecast: The Original Cloud Computing
Apr 22, 2023
Some Idle ChatGPT
Apr 14, 2023
Mental Arithmetic: It's All In Your Head
Apr 06, 2023
All We Hear Is: Radio Pulsar
Mar 30, 2023
Back Once Again For The Renegade Masters Student
Mar 23, 2023
Where Is There a Will?
Sep 22, 2021
Miracle Grow
Sep 08, 2021
The Ps of Queues
Aug 23, 2021
A Chip Off The New Block
Jun 28, 2021
Welcome to the Fold
May 14, 2021
The Matrix Revised
Mar 15, 2021
Algorithm and Blues
Feb 09, 2021
The Solace of Quantum
Jan 18, 2021
A Sum of Funny.
Dec 29, 2020
The Math(s) Doesn't Care About Your Feelings
Nov 21, 2020
Galaxy Brain
Nov 06, 2020
Model Behaviour
Oct 23, 2020
Spilling the T.
Oct 09, 2020
1 They Grow Up So Fast with Kit Yates
Sep 10, 2020