Kevin Knudson: Be sure to listen to the end for a very special announcement. Eveyn Lamb: Hello and welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah, and this is your other host. Kevin Knudson: Hi. I'm Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida, where it's hot. It’s still hot. I mean, you guys are, you know, you and our guest are in some place not so hot. And I'm, like, I’m i...
May 21, 2025•36 min
Kevin Knudson: Welcome to my favorite theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm one of your hosts, Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. And here is your other host, fabulous as usual, with a really good zoom background. Evelyn Lamb: Yes, I am Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah, and I'm celebrating fall with a nice zoom background that none of our listeners can see of a lovely bike trail near me with decked out in...
Feb 06, 2025•41 min
Evelyn Lamb: Hello and welcome to my favorite theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah, and I am joined, as always, by our other host. Will you introduce yourself? Kevin Knudson: Hi, I’m Kevin Knudson. Yeah, I will. I'm Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. It's been a while. EL: Yeah. KK: You know, I've actually gotten a few emails from our listeners saying, hey, where, where t...
Dec 02, 2024•22 min
Evelyn Lamb: Hello and welcome to my favorite theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Evelyn Lamb, a freelance writer in Salt Lake City, Utah, where it is gorgeous spring weather, perfect weather to be sitting in my basement talking to people on Zoom. This is your other host. Kevin Knudson: I’m Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. I don't know, Evelyn, I saw the pictures on Instagram over the weekend and it looked cold in Utah. You wrote that you r...
Jun 10, 2024•30 min
Kevin Knudson: Welcome to my favorite theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida, and I am joined, as always, by my fabulous co-host. Evelyn Lamb: Hi, I'm Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah, trying to remember how to do this. It's been a minute since we've recorded one of these. We kind of went dormant for the winter. KK: Yeah, a little bit, a little bit. Yeah. But Punxsutawney ...
Apr 03, 2024•34 min
Evelyn Lamb: Hello and welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm your host Evelyn Lamb. I'm a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City. And this is your other host. Kevin Knudson: Hi, I'm Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. How's it going? EL: All right. Yeah, I was I was trying to think about what to say. And I was like, well, the most exciting thing in my life right now is that our city is starting a pilot program...
Jan 23, 2024•34 min
Kevin Knudson: Welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm one of your hosts, Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida, and I'm joined as always by your other and let's be honest, better, host. Evelyn Lamb: I’m Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City. And tomorrow is my 40th birthday. So everything I do today is the last time I do it in my 30s. So, like, having my last mug of tea in my 30s, taking out the co...
Nov 12, 2023•35 min
Evelyn Lamb: Hello and welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm your host Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah. And this is your other host. Kevin Knudson: Hi, I'm Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. It's Friday. Hooray! EL: Yeah, yeah. KK: Long Weekend. Yeah. EL: It’s the start of a new month. Everything — anything is possible. KK: Right. EL: Including a great conversation with our guest. ...
Oct 09, 2023•26 min
Kevin Knudson: Welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I am one of your hosts, Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida, and your other host is… Evelyn Lamb: Hi, I'm Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah, where we sadly are past our beautiful, not too hot spring and fully into summer. So we enjoyed it while it lasted. I didn't have to turn on any air conditioning until after the start of July. KK: I ...
Sep 07, 2023•24 min
Evelyn Lamb: Hello and welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. Or perhaps today we should say the maths podcast with no quiz at the end. My name is Evelyn Lamb. I'm a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah. And this is your other host. Kevin Knudson: Hi, I’m Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. It's Juneteenth. EL: It is, yeah. KK: And I'm all alone this week. My wife's out of town. And yesterday was Father's D...
Jul 20, 2023•41 min
Kevin Knudson: Welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida, and I am joined today as always by my fabulous co-host. Evelyn Lamb: Well, thank you. I'm Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City. And anyone who's on this Zoom, which is only us and our guest, can see that I am bragging with my Zoom background right now. We just got back from a trip to southern Utah, and I t...
Jun 02, 2023•31 min
Kevin Knudson: Welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Kevin Knutson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. And today I am flying solo while I am at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, where I'm serving as the Green Honors Chair for the week. And I've been given some talks and meeting the fine folks here at TCU. And today, I have the pleasure to talk with some of their students. And they're going to tell us about their favorite theorem...
May 02, 2023•50 min
Evelyn Lamb: Hello, and welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Evelyn Lamb, one of your co-hosts, coming to you from snowy Salt Lake City, Utah, where I feel like I've said that the past few times we've been taping. Which is great, because we really need the water. It is beautiful today, and I am ever so grateful that the life of a freelance writer does not require me to drive in conditions like this, especially as someone who grew up in Texas where conditi...
Feb 16, 2023•27 min
Evelyn Lamb: Hello and welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the math podcasts with no quiz at the end. I'm your host Evelyn Lamb. I'm a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah. And this is your other host. Kevin Knudson: I’m Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. How's it going? EL: All right. I got to take an overnight Amtrak trip last weekend, my first time, so that was pretty fun. Went from Salt Lake to Sacramento and got to see lots of beautiful Ne...
Dec 30, 2022•29 min
Kevin Knudson: Welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida and I am joined as always by my fabulous other host, co-host? I don't know, Evelyn Lamb: Co-host. It’s a host but going in the opposite direction. KK: That’s right. We reverse the arrows. Haha, math joke. EL: Yes, I'm Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah. Actually just got back to Salt Lake from a won...
Nov 26, 2022•33 min
Evelyn Lamb: Hello and welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. My name is Evelyn Lamb. I'm a freelance math and science writer in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah, where fall is just gorgeous and everyone who's on this recording, which means no one listening to it, gets to see this cute zoom background I have from this fall hike I did recently with this mountain goat, like, posing for me in the back. It kind of looks like a bodybuilder, honestly, like really beefy...
Oct 21, 2022•34 min
Kevin Knudson: Welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida, and here is your other host. Evelyn Lamb: Hi, I'm Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah, trying to rehydrate myself after taking a long bike ride yesterday in the Utah desert in July, basically. KK: That’s not cool. Okay, so here's my here's my story. So the last 10 days of June, my wife and I were ou...
Sep 15, 2022•35 min
Evelyn Lamb: Hello and welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I like how we're always besmirching other math podcasts, which as far as I know, also don't have quizzes at the end. I am your host Evelyn lamb. I am a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah. And this is your other host. Kevin Knudson: Hi, I'm Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. Okay, full confession. I don't listen to other podcasts, so I don't kn...
Aug 11, 2022•28 min
Evelyn Lamb: Hello, and welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Evelyn lamb, one of your hosts. I'm a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah, currently enjoying very beautiful spring mountains, which my guest and my cohost can see behind me in my Zoom background. And this is my co host. Kevin Knudson: Hi, I’m Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. My wife and I are off to California this weekend. So, you know...
Jul 13, 2022•26 min
Kevin Knudson: Welcome to my favorite theorem, a math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida, and I am joined by your other co-host person. Evelyn Lamb: Hi, I am Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah. And I was actually thinking we should have a quiz at the end of this one. KK: We really should. EL: It’s just so jam-packed. There's gonna be so many different things floating around. So, like, be ...
Jun 09, 2022•59 min
Kevin Knudson: Welcome to my favorite theorem, a math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Kevin Knudson, a professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. And I'm joined by my other host. Evelyn Lamb: Hi, I’m Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah, where we just got a lovely few inches of snow last night. So I've developed a theory that podcasts cause snow here. Although it could be the other way. Maybe snow causes podcasts. KK: Maybe. EL: It’s hard to t...
Mar 17, 2022•31 min
Evelyn Lamb: Hello, and welcome to My Favorite Theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm your host Evelyn Lamb. I'm a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah. And this is your other host. Kevin Knudson: I’m Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. I almost forgot my name there for a second. EL: It happens. KK: I realized, like, I was hesitating, and I was like, “Who am I again?” Yeah, you know — so our listeners don't know, but it's 5:3...
Feb 11, 2022•43 min
Kevin Knudson: Welcome to My Favorite Theorem, a math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida, and I'm joined today by my fabulous co-host. Evelyn Lamb: Hi, I'm Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City where we are preparing for another snowstorm this week after we had one last week, which is great because we are so low on water right now and we need every bit of precipitation. So even though I'm from Tex...
Jan 13, 2022•42 min
Kevin Knudson: Welcome to My Favorite Theorem, a math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. And here is your other host. Evelyn Lamb: Hi, I'm Evelyn lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah, which is very chilly, and I'm trying to warm up from my bike ride just now that I probably should have worn better gloves on. The downhill! KK: Yeah, yeah, that sweater you're wearing those should help this. Yes. EL...
Dec 10, 2021•23 min
Evelyn Lamb: Hello and welcome to my favorite theorem, a math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer based in Salt Lake City but currently podcasting from my parents’ house in Dallas, which is actually not any warmer than Salt Lake City right now, unfortunately. This is your other host. Kevin Knudson: I’m Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. I'm in my faculty office. I'm usually — I'm the chair of the department. But...
Nov 11, 2021•40 min
Evelyn Lamb: Hello, and welcome to my favorite theorem, a math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Evelyn Lamb, one of your hosts. I'm a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah, and this is your other host. Kevin Knudson: Hi, I'm Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. I like your background, Evelyn. Our listeners can't can't see it. But it looks like you had a nice camping trip somewhere in Utah. EL: Yes, that's actually a couple years ago — we’r...
Sep 22, 2021•40 min
Kevin Knudson: Welcome to My Favorite Theorem, a math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. And here is your other host. Evelyn Lamb: Hi, I'm Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah, where there is a family of quail that live outside my window. And they don't know that I'm here so I can watch them scurrying around in the bushes. There are at least five young ones right now. KK: Cool. EL: They ar...
Aug 14, 2021•36 min
Evelyn Lamb: Hello, and welcome to My Favorite Theorem, a math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Evelyn Lamb, one of your hosts. I'm a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah, and this is your other host. Kevin Knudson: Hi, I'm Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. How are you doing, Evelyn? EL: I’m doing okay. I was trying to think of something interesting to talk to you about at the beginning of this and life isn't very interesting, but in a...
Jul 08, 2021•27 min
Kevin Knudson: Welcome to My Favorite Theorem, a math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Kevin Knutson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. I am joined today by your fabulous and glorious other host. Evelyn Lamb: Hi, I'm Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah. And I assume the “fabulous and glorious” means my new haircut, which I actually got professionally cut for the first time in quite a while recently. KK: Good for you. EL: I had been pl...
Jun 10, 2021•33 min
Evelyn Lamb: Hello and welcome to my favorite theorem, the math podcast with no quiz at the end. I'm Evelyn Lamb. I am a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah. And this is your other host. Kevin Knudson: Hi. I’m Kevin Knudson, professor of mathematics at the University of Florida. How are you, Evelyn? EL: I’m all right. It's been raining a little here, which is very good, because we are in a perhaps somewhat historic drought and every bit of moisture we can get is fantastic. ...
May 15, 2021•37 min
