Solve For X

How To Do Everything

• Episode: Solve For X
• Website: How To Do Everything
• Feed URL: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510303
• Duration: 00:52:19
• Published: 2018-01-05 06:01

Math intimidates a lot of us, but it can deliver surprising answers to life's pressing questions. In this episode, TED speakers discuss the elegant simplicity, and giddy complexity, of solving for X. Guests include comic book author Randall Munroe, polymath Terry Moore, percussionist Clayton Cameron and Mathematician Hannah Fry. (Original broadcast date: March 5, 2015)