Rowan Hooper

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1,000 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 11 Sep

Rowan Hooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I'm just going to read some quotes out about this.

So here's one.

This is a deep blue Kasparov moment.

That was mathematician Tristan Buckmaster.

And that's obviously referring to the first time a computer beat a human grandmaster in 1997.

landmark.

Massive landmark.

Another one, this feels like one of those moments when the future arrives all at once.

That's a German computational biologist called Fabian Thies.

And then Jacob from our office.

It's like imagining that an AI-generated film won an Oscar, but that doesn't really work because solving Navier-Stokes is much, much, much harder.

I'm Dr Rowan Hooper and we are biologists, Penny.

we've got some mathematically minded colleagues with us.

Matt Sparks, Tim Revel, welcome to the pod.

Matt, let's set the stage.

What is the Navier-Stokes problem and why is it a big deal?

equations.

So this is not anything to do with chaos and a small difference leading to some crazy outcome.

This is something different.

there.

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