For this final episode, Cecelia calls some of her friends and family to talk about what it means to be a "math person." This lineup of special guests includes: "Diameter" Daisy, "Mathematics" Mimi, "Hexagon Hunton, "Median" Meredith, "Macro" Mi

High School: Finishing Up Senior Year Online

May 5th, 2020 24m 58s

On this episode, Cecelia and her a virtual guest, "Jacobian" Jacob, discuss what it is like to learn online during this time, especially at the end of their high school careers. Jacob is currently a senior and taking calculus, but what's really

High School: A Little Bit About the Host

Apr 16th, 2020 12m 1s

On this episode, host Cecelia briefly talks about her history with math and how she got to where she is today with this podcast.

Numbers: Googols and Googolplexes

Apr 8th, 2020 16m 6s

This episode was recorded in February and released now to add more voices in this time of physical isolation. Enjoy this episode on Googols!

PI DAY

Mar 22nd, 2020 18m 28s

Happy (late) pi day! This is a special episode with another appearance of Arccot Anna. Anna and Cecelia try their best to memorize the first 31 digits of pi while eating some pie!

High School: To Math or Not To Math

Feb 23rd, 2020 35m 33s

Cecelia sits down with her friend Will to talk about how math factors into his life. He has opted out of math his senior year of high school to pursue another interest: sewing. What math carries from the classroom onto the sewing machine? Liste

College: Building Blocks

Jan 15th, 2020 18m 31s

Cecelia’s brother Hunton joins her on this episode to talk about math classes in college. He tells of how his prior math education set him up for calc 1, 2, and 3. Attending Colorado College, he takes his classes one at a time, in an intensive

College: Matrices and Water Engineering

Jan 13th, 2020 16m 50s

Host Cecelia sits down with Gaussian Elimination Gareth who is back from college all the way over at the University of Edinburgh. He discusses the ins and outs of civil engineering, what happens when beams bend, and how important matrices are i

College: Calculus and Cosines

Jan 5th, 2020 10m 23s

Cecelia invites her friend Konrad, who is back from his first semester at college, to share about what it is like to take a math class in college. Konrad goes over his math history and experience, and how the transition was from high school cla

The Real World: Mom & Paul Verlaine

Dec 14th, 2019 27m 39s

Cecelia's mom talks about her early misadventures in the world of math and how she now uses math to be a run a business and even make wine! We learn that it is never too late to learn math.

Shapes: Circles and Pi(e)!

Nov 22nd, 2019 31m

On this episode of Speaking Tangentially, Cectheplug and her special guest "Arccot Anna" explore the wonders of pi(e); the one with apples inside and the one with an infinite strand of digits after its decimal point. Tune in to hear the astound

Numbers: The Irrationality of √2

Oct 28th, 2019 12m 8s

For the first episode of Speaking Tangentially, Cecelia teaches her friends about the proof of the irrationality of √2. Listen in to hear about how this proof works and how it con be represented through geometry!

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