{"podcast":{"title":"Magic Internet Math","slug":"magic-internet-math-7652323","podcast_index_feed_id":7652323,"rss_url":"https://serve.podhome.fm/rss/7005772a-c12d-4a3f-b3cc-4c05833946e0","website_url":"https://fountain.fm/show/2gdYQCIV0eZEuYOW3nGJ","image_url":"https://assets.podhome.fm/68bd541f-7118-40ad-47f7-08dd33f04393/639136107548391507d7b8be.jpg","author":"Brian Hirschfield","episode_count":16,"summary":"This podcast exists to liberate Bitcoin holders from second-class citizenship by teaching the mathematics that underlies their convictions. We operate on a simple premise: if you don't understand the math of Bitcoin, you cannot truly know what you know—you're dependent on others' authority, forever vulnerable to doubt and manipulation. Mathematics is the primary pathway to conviction in your own reasoning. Through accessible, conversational exploration of Bitcoin's mathematical foundations—treating math as the liberal art it was always meant to be—we equip listeners with genuine understanding rather than borrowed beliefs. We reject the deliberate demoralization campaign that convinced generations they'r…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-28T20:21:51.807293+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magic-internet-math-7652323"},"episode":{"title":"My Daughter, the Mathematician (Fathers Day Special)","slug":"my-daughter-the-mathematician-fathers-day-special","published_at":"2026-06-24T20:06:11+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magic-internet-math-7652323/my-daughter-the-mathematician-fathers-day-special","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magic-internet-math-7652323","url":"https://serve.podhome.fm/episode/68bd541f-7118-40ad-47f7-08dd33f04393/6391792609247987472a73532c-3e49-4e18-8119-b385f741b448v1.mp3","audio_url":"https://serve.podhome.fm/episode/68bd541f-7118-40ad-47f7-08dd33f04393/6391792609247987472a73532c-3e49-4e18-8119-b385f741b448v1.mp3","summary":"In this Father’s Day episode of Magic Internet Math, I welcomed my daughter Kayla to the mic for her first appearance on the show. We started with her recent work explaining group theory in just three minutes, then used that as a jumping-off point to talk about why ideas like groups, inverses, isomorphisms, elliptic curves, and point addition matter so much in Bitcoin and cryptography. We also got honest about the difference between intuition and rigor: I’ve spent a lot of time building conceptual bridges for this audience, while Kayla is bringing the mathematician’s instinct to stop, verify the ground beneath her feet, and ask what has actually been proved. From there, we traced the path that led her into math in the first place, from early logic puzzles and Waldorf-school mental math to an unusually rich high-school calculus experience, AP Calc BC, Penn State, linear algebra, analysis, and her current summer research in number theory. Along the way, we talked about why good teachers matter, why “math person” does not mean “numbers person,” how linear algebra suddenly makes everything click, and why Gauss keeps showing up everywhere once you start taking mathematics seriously. Magic Internet Math: https://magicinternetmath.com/ BTC Prague: https://btcprague.com/ Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song: https://jimmysong.org/books/programming-bitcoin/ Understanding Cryptography by Christof Paar and Jan Pelzl: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-04101-3 Benedict Gross (Harvard profile): https://people.math.harvard.edu/~gross/ Harvard Math E-222 Abstract Algebra archive: https://legacy-www.math.harvard.edu/archive/122_fall_03/index.html Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler: https://linear.axler.net/index.html Penn State Department of Mathematics: https://sci…","meta_description":"In this Father’s Day episode of Magic Internet Math, I welcomed my daughter Kayla to the mic for her first appearance on the show. We started with her rec…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3498,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/magic-internet-math-7652323/episodes/my-daughter-the-mathematician-fathers-day-special/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magic-internet-math-7652323/my-daughter-the-mathematician-fathers-day-special.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}