What is your comfort level with abstraction?

This week, Jess and Joey talk about math, the transitive property, cookbooks, slang, strange attractors and chameleons. They don’t talk about cake math.

references

• How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng
• Transitive Property
• The Langlands Program: The Biggest Project in Modern Mathematics
• Look Around You

What can jazz teach us about making stuff together?

This week, Aaron and Jess talk about mistakes, improvisation, leadership, asking questions, saltine crackers, and Tori Amos. They don’t talk about girls that eat pizza but never gain weight.

references

• Amelia Bedelia
• Marc Mommaas and the New York Jazz Workshop
• Corrections Department: Miles Davis, not John Coltrane, was the one who didn't fear mistakes.. (Trane was a perfectionist).
• Corrections Department: Count Basie, not Cab Calloway
• Hidden Brain Podcast: You 2.0: Taking Control of Your Time
• Revisiting Critical Nonsense 211!: Question Asking
• Tori Amos "Silent All These Years"
• Deathloop

How do we do math learning better?

This week, Joey and Jess talk about numeracy, literacy, discrete math, Carl Sagan, Cleopatra, and sushi. They don’t talk about Frank Ocean.

references

• math rock
• Jay-Z "4:44"