New Books in Mathematics

About New Books in Mathematics

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/mathematics

Publisher

Marshall Poe

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Jul 2012

Latest episode

20 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 175 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   20 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Pablo F. Gomez, "Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

   Host Amisah Bakuri (PhD) interviews Professor Pablo F. Gómez about his book, exploring how the Atlantic slave trade invented modern corporeality through violent measurement and exploitation.

2. 

   2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Xiaochang Li, "Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making of Algorithmic Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

   Dr. Miranda Melcher interviews Dr. Xiaochang Li about how the dream of conversing with machines fueled AI and algorithmic culture.

3. 

   22 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Richard Elwes, "Huge Numbers: A Story of Counting Ambitiously, from 4 1/2 to Fish 7" (Basic Books, 2026)

   Host P.G. Nelson interviews mathematician Richard Elwes about his book "Huge Numbers," exploring the ambitious history of counting and how large numbers reshape human thought and science.

Inside a recent episode

Pablo F. Gomez, "Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Published 20 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So it is not a history of grand revolutions or great ideas as much as a history of accretion and amalgamation of all these different techniques. But what happens throughout the 6th and the 17th century is that we have development both in Europe and in Africa and in the Americas of a large, a vast network of people invested in the slave trade. That speaks both to the scale in terms of distance, geography, complexity of the trade. So the number of people involved in it and the number of different sorts of epistemology that came into the shaping of the trade. makes it a very specific and fruitful space for the development of these specific techniques. […]

Who has been a guest on New Books in Mathematics

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Pablo F Gómez
• Xiaochang Li
• Richard Elwes
• Drew M Dalton
• Luci Pangrazio

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

25 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

17 ratings

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