StarTalk Radio · 2026-02-24 · 56 min · 11,167 words

Is the Universe a Math Problem? With Terence Tao

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Paul, we have revisited the universe of math. Yeah, but really drilled down and really applied ourselves. Because that's how we roll. Yeah. Coming up on Star Talk.

Welcome to Star Talk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. Star Talk begins right now. This is Star Talk. Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist, and we're going to have a cosmic queries edition on the subject of mathematics.

Why do you laugh at me like that? Apparently you're gonna scare people with this? Everybody thinks there's a math quiz coming up. That was a Halloween laugh, wasn't it? It was.

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