The Cartesian Cafe

By Timothy Nguyen

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Episodes: 18

Description

The Cartesian Cafe is the podcast where an expert guest and Timothy Nguyen map out scientific and mathematical subjects in detail. This collaborative journey with other experts will have us writing down formulas, drawing pictures, and reasoning about them together on a whiteboard. If you’ve been longing for a deeper dive into the intricacies of scientific subjects, then this is the podcast for you. Topics covered include mathematics, physics, computer science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Content also viewable on YouTube: www.youtube.com/timothynguyen and Spotify. Timothy Nguyen is a mathematician and AI researcher working in industry. Homepage: www.timothynguyen.com, Twitter: @IAmTimNguyen Patreon: www.patreon.com/timothynguyen

Episode Date
Richard Borcherds | Monstrous Moonshine: From Group Theory to String Theory
Feb 02, 2024
Announcements for 2024 and a Message to Viewers
Jan 09, 2024
Tim Maudlin | Bell’s Theorem and Beyond: Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics
Dec 01, 2023
Antonio Padilla | Fantastic Numbers, Naturalness, and Anthropics in Physics
Sep 27, 2023
Boaz Barak | Cryptography: The Art of Mathematical Secrecy
Aug 02, 2023
Sean Carroll | The Many Worlds Interpretation & Emergent Spacetime
Jun 14, 2023
Daniel Schroeder | Introduction to Thermal Physics
May 02, 2023
Ethan Siegel | Demystifying Dark Matter
Mar 21, 2023
Alex Kontorovich | Circle Packings and Their Hidden Treasures
Feb 15, 2023
Greg Yang | Large N Limits: Random Matrices & Neural Networks
Jan 04, 2023
Scott Aaronson | Quantum Computing: Dismantling the Hype
Nov 22, 2022
Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) | Unsolvability of the Quintic
Oct 13, 2022
John Baez | The Algebra of Grand Unified Theories
Sep 07, 2022
Tai-Danae Bradley | Category Theory and Language Models
Aug 22, 2022
John Urschel | Tackling Graph Theory
Aug 22, 2022
Richard Easther | The Big Bang, Inflation, and Gravitational Waves
Aug 20, 2022
Po-Shen Loh | The Mathematics of COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Aug 19, 2022
Introduction
Aug 17, 2022