April is National Poetry Month. It’s also National Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month. Which means it should be Math Poetry month! Celebrate with this episode of Calculated, which features Archimedes, […]

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Episode 4: What’s math got to do with poetry?

Mathematics is often described “beautiful,” but what does that mean? In this episode of Calculated, we follow those questions — first to the biological basis of mathematical beauty in the […]

Episode 3: Can math be beautiful?

We celebrate pi, the most popular irrational number, on March 14. But not all is peaceful and easy for pi. This episode first revisits a quirky math anecdote about how […]

Episode 2: Pi is Dead! Long Live Pi!

In this episode, we meet John Sims, a political and math artist in Sarasota, Florida, and find out how his quilts encode the digits of pi. Scroll down for the […]

Episode 1: How to make an American pi quilt

Calculated is a new podcast collection of stories about people at the intersection of math, art, and culture. Hosted and produced by Stephen Ornes, author of Math Art: Truth, Beauty, […]

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