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About Cory Brunson

Cory Brunson is an Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida. His research focuses on geometric and topological approaches to the analysis of medical and healthcare data. He welcomes book suggestions, listener feedback, and transparent supply chains.

Cory Brunson is an Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida. His research focuses on geometric and topological approaches to the analysis of medical and healthcare data.

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Mathematics April 16, 2023

Women Who Count

Honoring African American Women Mathematicians

Shelly M. Jones

Hosted by Cory Brunson
African-Americans and women are increasingly visible in professional mathematical institutions, organizations, and literature, expanding our mental models of the mathematics community. Yet early representation also matters: We begin building these …
Mathematics August 23, 2022

Mathematical Puzzles

Peter Winkler

Hosted by Cory Brunson
Peter Winkler has been collecting mathematical puzzles since childhood. He has had published two previous collections, and recently he compiled his largest curated collection to date. Mathematical Puzzles (A K …
Mathematics May 10, 2022

Teaching Mathematics Through Games

Mindy Capaldi

Hosted by Cory Brunson
Games are an established aide in pre-college mathematics education. Meanwhile, innumerable popular books have investigated the mathematics of games. In a new edited volume for the AMS/MAA Classroom Resource Materials …
Law March 4, 2022

Predict and Surveil

Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

Sarah Brayne

Hosted by Cory Brunson
Police use of advanced data collection and analysis technologies—or, "big data policing"—continues to receive both positive and negative attention through media, activism, and politics. While some high-profile cases illustrate its …
Mathematics February 1, 2022

Breaking Barriers

Student Success in Community College Mathematics

Brian Cafarella

Hosted by Cory Brunson
Students' success in mathematics at community colleges has been the subject of thorough quantitative research, which has reported poor overall results and described a range of explanations for them. Even …
Mathematics January 17, 2022

Bits and Bugs

A Scientific and Historical Review of Software Failures in Computational Science

Thomas Huckle and Tobias Neckel

Hosted by Cory Brunson
A true understanding of the pervasive role of software in the world demands an awareness of the volume and variety of real-world software failures and their consequences. No more thorough …
Mathematics December 7, 2021

Arguing with Numbers

The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics

James Wynn and G. Mitchell Reyes

Hosted by Cory Brunson
One pervasive stereotype about mathematics is that it is objective, unbiased, or otherwise exempt from the influence of human passions. James Wynn and G. Mitchell Reyes's edited collection will be …
Mathematics November 5, 2021

Why Study Mathematics?

Vicky Neale

Hosted by Cory Brunson
Students and their families face a consequential choice in whether to pursue a degree, and in what area. For those considering mathematics programs, the choice may be particularly fraught: A …
Mathematics September 27, 2021

Poems That Solve Puzzles

The History and Science of Algorithms

Chris Bleakley

Hosted by Cory Brunson
As algorithms become ever more significant to and embedded in our everyday lives, ever more accessible introductions to them are needed. While several excellent technical and critical treatments have emerged …
Mathematics August 26, 2021

Math Renaissance

Growing Math Circles, Changing Classrooms, and Creating Sustainable Math Education

Rachel Steinig and Rodi Steinig

Hosted by Cory Brunson
Math Renaissance: Growing Math Circles, Changing Classrooms, and Creating Sustainable Math Education (Natural Math, 2018) couples two educational memoirs: Student Rachel Steinig brings her experience from diverse schooling models, surveys of …
Mathematics July 30, 2021

What Is a Complex System?

James Ladyman and K. Wiesner

Hosted by Cory Brunson
While i find it pretty easy to recognize when i'm reading articles in complexity science, i've never been satisfied by definitions of complexity and related concepts. I'm not alone! Researchers' …
Mathematics May 31, 2021

Innumeracy in the Wild

Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers

Ellen Peters

Hosted by Cory Brunson
To many mathematicians and math enthusiasts, the word "innumeracy" brings to mind popular writing like that of John Allen Paulos. But inequities in our quantitative reasoning skills have received considerable …
Mathematics April 27, 2021

Inspiring Mathematics

Lessons from the Navajo Nation Math Circles

Dave Auckly, Bob Klein, Amanda Serenevy, Tatiana Shubin

Hosted by Cory Brunson
Math circles defy simple narratives. The model was introduced a century ago, and is taking off in the present day thanks in part to its congruence with cutting-edge research in …
Mathematics January 8, 2021

A New Year's Present from a Mathematician

Snezana Lawrence

Hosted by Cory Brunson
It would be simple enough to say that mathematics is being done, and that those who do it are mathematicians. Yet, the history and culture of the mathematical community immediately …
Mathematics December 7, 2020

The Fate of Schrodinger's Cat

Using Math and Computers to Explore the Counterintuitive

James D. Stein

Hosted by Cory Brunson
Math has a complicated relationship with the counterintuitive: Rigorous logic, calculation, and simulation can both help us wrap our minds around phenomena that defy our intuition, and thrust upon us whole new worlds …
Mathematics December 1, 2020

Supermath

The Power of Numbers for Good and Evil

Anna Weltman

Hosted by Cory Brunson
Mathematics as a subject is distinctive in its symbolic abstraction and its potential for logical and computational rigor. But mathematicians tend to impute other qualities to our subject that set …
Mathematics September 29, 2020

How to Free Your Inner Mathematician

Notes on Mathematics and Life

Susan D'Agostino

Hosted by Cory Brunson
Doing mathematics can be stimulating, deep, and sometimes fantastic. It can also be frustrating, impenetrable, and at times dispiriting. In her new collection of essays, writer and mathematician Susan D'Agostino …
Mathematics September 4, 2020

Dark Data

Why What You Don't Know Matters

David J. Hand

Hosted by Cory Brunson
There is no shortage of books on the growing impact of data collection and analysis on our societies, our cultures, and our everyday lives. David Hand's new book Dark Data …
Mathematics July 8, 2020

An Invitation to Applied Category Theory

Seven Sketches in Compositionality

Brendan Fong and David I. Spivak

Hosted by Cory Brunson
Category theory is well-known for abstraction—concepts and tools from diverse fields being recognized as specific cases of more foundational structures—though the field has always been driven and shaped by the …
Mathematics May 29, 2020

Discrete Mathematics with Ducks (Second Edition)

sarah-marie belcastro

Hosted by Cory Brunson
Introductory courses in discrete mathematics cover a variety of distinctive but interconnected topics, from the underpinnings of logic and set theory through overviews of combinatorics and graph theory, which lend …
Mathematics February 26, 2020

Geometry

The Line and the Circle

Maureen T. Carroll and Elyn Rykken

Hosted by Cory Brunson
From an undergraduate perspective, coming from the rigid proofs and concrete constructions of middle- or high-school courses, the broad discipline of geometry can be at once intimately familiar and menacingly …
Mathematics October 17, 2019

Republic of Numbers

Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History

David Lindsay Roberts

Hosted by Cory Brunson
The institutional history of mathematics in the United States comprises several entangled traditions—military, civil, academic, industrial—each of which merits its own treatment. David Lindsay Roberts, adjunct professor of mathematics at …
Mathematics August 28, 2019

The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century

A Debate Among Gregory, Huygens and Leibniz

Davide Crippa

Hosted by Cory Brunson
From 1667 to 1676, a pivotal controversy played out among several mathematical luminaries of the time, partly in the proceedings of the Royal Society but partly in private correspondence. The …