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PBS Infinite Series

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Overview[edit]

PBS Infinite Series is a Youtube channel managed by PBS Digital Studios, a network through which PBS distributes educational web content. PBS Infinite Series focuses primarily on educational mathematics content.

Content[edit]

The content presented and discussed on the channel is primarily geared toward students enrolled in undergraduate college mathematics courses.

Content includes: Higher Dimensional Mathematics, Cryptography, Abstract Algebra, Game Theory, Probability, Number Theory, Geometry, and Set Theory.

Challenge questions are presented to viewers at the end of each episode, answers to the challenge questions are presented in following episodes and viewers that send in correct solutions are rewarded and/or recognized for their contributions.

Credits for each episode include links to academic papers and other related content to help further exploration on the part of their target demographic.

Hosts[edit]

Gabe Perez-Giz (writer and co-host) is an astrophysicist from New York City. After receiving his Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University, Gabe was an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU. During his postdoc, he founded and ran STARS, a research program for underrepresented high-school and undergraduate students hosted at NYU and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH).[1]

Kelsey Houston-Edwards (inaugural writer and co-host) is a Ph.D candidate in mathematics at Cornell University. A San Diego native, Houston-Edwards dropped out of high school and ended up at Reed College in Oregon before moving to New York. Houston-Edwards came to her present extracurricular gig as host after a summer spent as a 2016 AAAS Media Fellow with NOVA Next, a digital publication of NOVA, the PBS popular-science television series.[2]

Tai-Danae Bradley (writer and co-host) is a Ph.D candidate in mathematics at CUNY Graduate Center. Originally from Richmond, Virginia with a background in basketball and an interest in sports medicine and exercise physiology Bradley began to focus her interests in college and is currently researching the development of mathematical approaches to address a unified field theory.[3]

Episodes[edit]

  1. A Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
  2. Are Prime Numbers Made Up?
  3. How Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?  
  4. A Hierarchy of Infinities
  5. Can You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
  6. Can We Hear Shapes?
  7. When Pi is Not 3.14
  8. Can a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
  9. Singularities Explained
  10. Kill the Mathematical Hydra
  11. How Infinity Explains the Finite
  12. The Mathematics of Quantum Computers
  13. Splitting Rent with Triangles
  14. Infinite Chess
  15. 5 Unusual Proofs
  16. Proving Pick's Theorem
  17. What is a Random Walk?
  18. Solving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
  19. Why I Love PBS
  20. Can We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
  21. How to Break Cryptography
  22. Hacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
  23. Building an Infinite Bridge
  24. Topology Riddles
  25. The Devil's Staircase
  26. Dissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
  27. Pantographs and the Geometry of Complex Functions
  28. Voting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
  29. Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
  30. Network Mathematics and Rival Factions
  31. Making Probability Mathematical
  32. Why Computers are Bad at Algebra
  33. The Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
  34. Stochastic Supertasks
  35. Your Brain as Math - Part 1
  36. Simplicial Complexes - Your Brain as Math Part 2
  37. Your Mind Is Eight-Dimensional - Your Brain as Math Part 3
  38. How the Axiom of Choice Gives Sizeless Sets
  39. Higher-Dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe
  40. The Cops and Robbers Theorem
  41. How Many Cops to Catch a Robber?
  42. How to Generate Pseudorandom Numbers
  43. Crisis in the Foundation of Mathematics
  44. Hilbert's 15th Problem: Schubert Calculus
  45. The Heat Equation + Special Announcement!
  46. The Multiplication Multiverse
  47. Associahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
  48. (Almost) Unbreakable Crypto
  49. This Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
  50. Topology vs "a" Topology
  51. The Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
  52. Proving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
  53. Beyond the Golden Ratio
  54. How to Divide by "Zero"
  55. Telling Time on a Torus
  56. What Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Perez-Giz, Gabriel. "National Science Foundation Biography" (PDF). National Science Foundation. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  2. O'Hara, Delia (22 December 2016). "Kelsey Houston-Edwards". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  3. "Tai-Danae Bradley". The City College of New York. Retrieved 28 February 2018.


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