Every week in Brain Train, an expert is asked about their specialist subject - then the following week, the expert becomes the novice, asking an expert in a totally different subject what they've always wanted to know. This process repeats in a glorious Brain Train!
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Every week in Brain Train, an expert is asked about their specialist subject - then the following week, the expert becomes the novice, asking an expert in a totally different subject what they've always wanted to know. This process repeats in a glorious Brain Train!
Brain Train Podcast #16 - Charlotte Riley talks voting and fairness with Chris Good
Brain Train Podcast
26 minutes 8 seconds
11 years ago
Brain Train Podcast #16 - Charlotte Riley talks voting and fairness with Chris Good
On the eve of the Scottish Referendum, (thoroughly) modern historian Charlotte Riley ask pure mathematician Chris Good about the fairness of voting systems, host Alice Bell steers them onto sewage, badgers and her aunts, and Chris wonders aloud whether he'll ever see a locally compact first countable Dowker Space in ZFC his lifetime. There is literally something for everyone.
Brain Train Podcast
Every week in Brain Train, an expert is asked about their specialist subject - then the following week, the expert becomes the novice, asking an expert in a totally different subject what they've always wanted to know. This process repeats in a glorious Brain Train!
