Math-Life Balance
Episodes
Let's talk about "Women in math"! with Olga Paris-Romaskevich
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about women in math, from the perspective of sociology! Many thanks to Olga Paris-Romaskevich for the conversation. Olga's webpage...
Interview with Richard Schwartz
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Richard is a math professor at Brown University as well as an author of very funny books about math for kids! Enjoy learning about Richard and his adv...
Interview with Jordan Ellenberg
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jordan is a mathematician as well as an author of popular books about mathematics, with great sense of humour. And this interview goes as wild as the ...
Interview with Steven Strogatz
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Strogatz, who works at Cornell University, is a well-known math popularizer and the first applied mathematician on Mura's channel. Enjoy th...
Interview with Dennis Gaitsgory
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Enjoy the interview with Dennis Gaitsgory, who thinks about questions deeply yet answers lightly! Jokes included :)Dennis webpage: https://people.mpim...
Dennis Gaitsgory and Mura interview David Kazhdan
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
David Kazhdan:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kazhdanhttp://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~kazhdan/Dennis Gaitsgory:https://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/gaitsgde/h...
Interview with Simon Singh
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Singh is, according to himself, "an author, journalist and TV producer, specialising in science and mathematics, the only two subjects I ha...
Interview with @3blue1brown
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Grant Sanderson is the creator of the coolest math youtube channel, "3blue1brown". In this interview, Grant and Mura chat about a bunch of d...
Interview with Jeremiah Heller and Vesna Stojanoska
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Jeremiah Heller and Vesna Stojanoska share their experience of combining math and family life, discuss their ways to get over occas...
Interview with Dhruv Ranganathan
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dhruv Ranganathan is a lecturer at Cambridge University, working in algebraic geometry. In this video, Dhruv talks about doing research with undergrad...
Interview with Kevin Buzzard
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Buzzard is a professor in Imperial College London working in number theory and formal proof verification. In this interview, Kevin shares his vi...
Interview with Maria Chudnovsky
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Chudnovsky is a professor at Princeton University, working in graph theory and combinatorics. In this interview, Maria shares her personal exper...
Interview with Tomer Schlank
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tomer Schlank is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working in homotopy theory and arithmetic geometry. In this interview, Tomer share...
Interview with Saul Glasman
10 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Saul Glasman worked in homotopy theory and K-theory, and now works as a software engineer. In this interview, we discuss the hardships of academic job...
Interview with Giulia Saccà
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Giulia Saccà is an assistant professor at Columbia University, working in algebraic geometry. In this interview, Giulia gives jobmarket advice ...
William Thurston "On proof and progress in mathematics"
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this [episode], I read a piece from Thurston's essay "On proof and progress in mathematics", where he reflects on the importance of seeing mathemat...
How to become the worst researcher in the world
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This sarcastic [episode] is dedicated to my family and all my friends of the last 10 years. They will see why. A special thanks to Nicole R. for the ...
Interview with Irakli Patchkoria
30 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Irakli Patchkoria is a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, working in homotopy theory. In this interview, he speaks about math-tennis balance, sha...
Interview with Peter Scholze
22 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Scholze is a professor in Bonn University, working in number theory and arithmetic geometry. In this interview, we chat about the pressure of th...
Interview with Ravi Vakil
08 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ravi Vakil is a professor at Stanford University, working in algebraic geometry. In this interview, Ravi talks about the importance of a community for...
Interview with Max Karoubi
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Max Karoubi is a Professor Emmeritus at the University of Paris 7, working in K-theory and algebraic topology. In this interview, Max shares warm memo...
Interview with Mariana Smit Vega Garcia
17 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mariana Smit Vega Garcia is an Assistant Professor at Western Washington University, working in geometric analysis and partial differential equations....
Interview with Richard Thomas
10 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Thomas is a professor at Imperial College London, working in algebraic geometry and mirror symmetry. In this interview, Richard speaks about m...
What brought me into math
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This video is dedicated to my teacher of mathematics in the middle school, Andrey Yurjevich Alexeev. Time for stories about my first encounter with "a...
Interview with Marc Levine
21 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Levine is a professor at Duisburg-Essen University, working in algebraic geometry and motivic homotopy theory, and my PhD advisor! In this interv...
Interview with Dustin Clausen
13 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dustin Clausen is an associate professor in Copenhagen university, working in algebraic K-theory, homotopy theory and number theory. In this interview...
Interviews with mathematicians: how & why
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I’m telling about my reasons for making interviews with mathematicians and about the process of doing it. Please leave your feedback...
Interview with Olga Paris-Romaskevich
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Olga Paris-Romaskevich is a CNRS researcher at Marseille Institute of Mathematics, working in dynamical systems. In this interview Olga talks about th...
Interview with Rahul Pandharipande
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rahul Pandharipande is a professor in ETH Zurich, working in algebraic geometry. In this interview, Rahul talks about advising PhD students and mainta...
Interview with Adebisi Agboola
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adebisi Agboola is a professor in UCSB, working in number theory and arithmetic geometry. In this interview you get to hear non-standard opinions &nbs...
Interview with Thomas Nikolaus
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Nikolaus is a professor in the University of Münster, working in algebraic K-theory and homotopy theory. In this interview Thomas talks, among...
Interview with Hélène Esnault
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hélène Esnault is an Einstein Professor in Freie Universitaet Berlin, working in algebraic geometry. In this interview Hélène talks, among other t...
Interview with Inna Zakharevich
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Inna Zakharevich is an assistant professor in Cornell University, working in algebraic topology and K-theory. In this interview Inna talks, among othe...