{"podcast":{"title":"Breaking Math Podcast","slug":"breaking-math-podcast-325661","podcast_index_feed_id":325661,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/breaking-math/feed.xml","website_url":"https://breakingmath.io","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/breaking-math/20260128_120149_db52c06c727767171b7ad28e5f6a32af.png","author":"Autumn Phaneuf & Noah Giansiracusa","episode_count":192,"summary":"Breaking Math is a deep-dive science, technology, engineering, AI, and mathematics podcast that explores the world through the lens of logic, patterns, and critical thinking. Hosted by Autumn Phaneuf , an expert in industrial engineering, operations research, and applied mathematics, and Noah Giansiracusa , a mathematician and leading voice in algorithmic literacy and technology ethics, the show is dedicated to uncovering the mathematical structures behind science, technology, and the systems shaping our future. What began as a conversation about math as a pure and elegant discipline has evolved into a platform for bold, interdisciplinary dialogue. Each episode of Breaking Math takes listeners on an intellectual journey—into the strange beauty of chaos theory, the ethical dilemmas of AI and algorithms, the hidden math of biology and evolution, or the physics governing black holes and the cosmos. Along the way, Autumn and Noah speak with working scientists, researchers, and thinkers across fields: computer scientists, physicists, chemists, engineers, economists, philosophers, and more. But this isn’t just a podcast about equations. It’s a show about how mathematics shapes the way w…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-math-podcast-325661"},"episode":{"title":"29: War","slug":"29-war","published_at":"2018-07-14T01:34:24+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-math-podcast-325661/29-war","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-math-podcast-325661","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/breaking-math/2498670","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/369257/2498670/breaking-math/2026_01_27_22_56_13_ecfea723-464e-4a54-a70e-b8d54de4464f.mp3","summary":"In the United States, the fourth of July is celebrated as a national holiday, where the focus of that holiday is the war that had the end effect of ending England’s colonial influence over the American colonies. To that end, we are here to talk about war, and how it has been influenced by mathematics and mathematicians. The brutality of war and the ingenuity of war seem to stand at stark odds to one another, as one begets temporary chaos and the other represents lasting accomplishment in the sciences. Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest western minds, thought war was an illness, but worked on war machines. Feynman and Von Neumann held similar views, as have many over time; part of being human is being intrigued and disgusted by war, which is something we have to be aware of as a species. So what is warfare? What have we learned from refining its practice? And why do we find it necessary?","meta_description":"In the United States, the fourth of July is celebrated as a national holiday, where the focus of that holiday is the war that had the end effect of ending…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2049,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/breaking-math-podcast-325661/episodes/29-war/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-math-podcast-325661/29-war.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}