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Research Funding

The episodes where the show explains Research Funding from the ground up.

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  1. EP 57

    What’s Next in Science? Nobel Prizes, Space Missions & More

    Nobel season, the value of basic research, and the space missions to watch: Roman, Mars’ moons and Mercury. Plus a tour of FFP’s favorite episodes.

    What’s Next in Science? Nobel Prizes, Space Missions & More
  2. EP 53

    What Claude Actually Did to the Riemann Hypothesis

    Claude takes a real run at the Riemann Hypothesis, forcing us to ask what agentic AI can now do in mathematics, before we open the summer transfer window for America’s scientists.

    What Claude Actually Did to the Riemann Hypothesis
Chapters from these episodes27
  1. EP 57 · 10:45Golden Goose Awards: why basic research matters
  2. EP 57 · 42:24Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
  3. EP 57 · 46:20Microlensing, exoplanets and dark matter
  4. EP 57 · 51:25MMX: where did Mars’ moons come from?
  5. EP 57 · 54:40BepiColombo and the mysteries of Mercury
  6. EP 53 · 1:49Has AI reached a mathematical singularity?
  7. EP 53 · 10:28Euler and the Basel problem
  8. EP 53 · 15:50How Euler connected the zeta function to primes
  9. EP 53 · 22:05Gauss and the distribution of prime numbers
  10. EP 53 · 25:55Riemann takes the zeta function into the complex plane
  11. EP 53 · 30:26Analytic continuation
  12. EP 53 · 33:15Why 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + … = -1/12
Show 15 more chapters
  1. EP 53 · 38:34What is the Riemann Hypothesis?
  2. EP 53 · 41:55Why the non-trivial zeros matter
  3. EP 53 · 47:28A century of progress toward the critical line
  4. EP 53 · 55:10Montgomery, Dyson, and the physics connection
  5. EP 53 · 59:02Claude builds a 60-agent research lab
  6. EP 53 · 1:03:44650 approaches and the E2 breakthrough
  7. EP 53 · 1:07:20Claude creates hostile referees
  8. EP 53 · 1:09:04Pushing toward two-thirds
  9. EP 53 · 1:13:49Can the proof be machine-verified?
  10. EP 53 · 1:16:16What this actually tells us about AI
  11. EP 53 · 1:25:24The Summer Transfer Window for Scientists
  12. EP 53 · 1:28:52Omar Yaghi: Berkeley → Tsinghua
  13. EP 53 · 1:33:53Shirley Meng: Chicago → Singapore
  14. EP 53 · 1:37:31John Baker: NASA → France
  15. EP 53 · 1:39:59A neuroscience package deal to Birmingham