Category Archives: Geometry & Topology Today

Scott Baldridge’s and I interview world-class mathematicians to discuss their latest research. We’ll be keeping the discussion at the general interest level and will have content accessible to students, teachers and researchers alike.

Meet Mathematician Moshe Cohen

Intended Audience: Everyone, and especially teachers who want to show to their students a mathematician explaining research mathematics

In this episode we meet Moshe Cohen, a mathematician who studies ways to arrange planes in 4-dimensional space. The interview starts with an easier question that can be answered by any student in any grade. Enjoy! Continue reading

Meet Mathematician Thomas Lam

Intended Audience: Everyone, and especially teachers who want to show to their students a mathematician explaining the motivation behind their own research.

In this episode we meet Thomas Lam, professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan, who studies electrical networks (among other topics).  Thomas gives a great introduction to one of the main problem in electrical networks as well as an application of electrical networks to medicine. Continue reading

Meet Mathematician Aaron Lauda

Intended Audience: Everyone, and especially teachers who want to show to their students a mathematician explaining the motivation behind their own research.

In this episode we meet Aaron Lauda, a mathematician from the University of Southern California, who shows us how to represent complicated expressions and equations using pictures. Enjoy! Continue reading