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- Season 2020 Scarlett Howard on the Lessons of Teaching Bees Math
- Season 2020 Nobel Laureate James P. Allison on the Origins of His Cancer Immunotherapy Research
- Season 2020 Omololu Akin-Ojo: Doing Cutting-Edge Physics in Africa
- Season 2020 Ronald Rivest on Building Better Elections
- Season 2020 Pincelli Hull Explains What Killed Off the Dinosaurs
- Season 2020 Epidemiologist Tara Smith Answers Your Coronavirus Questions
- Season 2020 Epidemiologist Tara Smith Answers Your Coronavirus Questions [Highlights]
- Season 2020 Katie Mack Knows How It’s All Going to End
- Season 2020 James Maynard Solves the Hardest Easy Math Problems
- Season 2020 Liz MacDonald on Strange Auroras
- Season 2020 Impossible Life Under the Ice—on Earth and Beyond
- Season 2020 'Gravity Is the Law That Makes Everything Happen'
- Season 2020 Emily Riehl: Mathematician, Musician, Educator
- Season 2020 The Woman Who's Rewriting Higher Category Theory
- Season 2020 Urban Traffic and Complex Systems
- Season 2020 Cracking the Puzzle of Biodiversity
- Season 2020 The Bold Quest to Launch the Internet in Space
- Season 2020 The Extraordinary Math Hidden in Everyday Life
- Season 2020 The Cosmologist Who Dreams of Dark Matter
- Season 2020 Inside Dynamical Systems and the Mathematics of Change
- Season 2020 How to Shrink Big Data
- Season 2020 The 'Male' and 'Female' Brain: New Clues in an Age-Old Question
- Season 2020 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
- Season 2020 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science
- Season 2020 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology
Quanta Magazine - Season 2020 Episode 18 The Extraordinary Math Hidden in Everyday Life
0.00 48 minutes L. Mahadevan is a professor of applied mathematics, physics, and organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He uses mathematics and physics to explore commonplace phenomena, showing that many of the objects and behaviors we take for granted, and consequently give little thought to, are quite extraordinary upon closer examination.
