Episode 105 Bonus: Paul Hearding on Creativity and Math

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Episode 105 Bonus: Paul Hearding on Creativity and Math

Christie Aschwanden

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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Feb 15, 2024

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Creative practice and overcoming stumbling blocks is not so different for a mathematician than it is for a poet. In this bonus episode we talk with Paul Hearding about creativity in math. He shares his work in permutation polynomials and uses metaphor to help us understand what THAT means and how it is useful for cryptology, plus he offers wise words on…

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Emerging Form is a podcast about the creative process in which a journalist (Christie Aschwanden) and a poet (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer) discuss creative conundrums over wine. Each episode concludes with a game of two questions in which a guest joins in to help answer questions about the week's topic. Season one guests include poets, novelists, journalists, a song writer, a circus performer, a sketch artist and a winemaker.

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