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About Cory Brunson
Cory Brunson is an Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida. His research focuses on geometric and topological approaches to the analysis of medical and healthcare data. He welcomes book suggestions, listener feedback, and transparent supply chains.Cory Brunson is an Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida. His research focuses on geometric and topological approaches to the analysis of medical and healthcare data.
NBN Episodes hosted by Cory:
May 10, 2024
All the Math You Missed
Graduate students in many programs besides mathematics will need to be familiar with the methods and results of a variety of mathematical topics. Just…
April 15, 2024
Symbols and Things
The stereotype of the solitary mathematician is widespread, but practicing users and producers of mathematics know well that our work depends heavily …
April 16, 2023
Women Who Count
African-Americans and women are increasingly visible in professional mathematical institutions, organizations, and literature, expanding our mental mo…
August 23, 2022
Mathematical Puzzles
Peter Winkler has been collecting mathematical puzzles since childhood. He has had published two previous collections, and recently he compiled his la…
May 10, 2022
Teaching Mathematics Through Games
Games are an established aide in pre-college mathematics education. Meanwhile, innumerable popular books have investigated the mathematics of games. I…
March 4, 2022
Predict and Surveil
Police use of advanced data collection and analysis technologies—or, "big data policing"—continues to receive both positive and negative attention thr…
February 1, 2022
Breaking Barriers
Students' success in mathematics at community colleges has been the subject of thorough quantitative research, which has reported poor overall results…
January 17, 2022
Bits and Bugs
A true understanding of the pervasive role of software in the world demands an awareness of the volume and variety of real-world software failures and…
December 7, 2021
Arguing with Numbers
One pervasive stereotype about mathematics is that it is objective, unbiased, or otherwise exempt from the influence of human passions. James Wynn and…
November 5, 2021
Why Study Mathematics?
Students and their families face a consequential choice in whether to pursue a degree, and in what area. For those considering mathematics programs, t…
September 27, 2021
Poems That Solve Puzzles
As algorithms become ever more significant to and embedded in our everyday lives, ever more accessible introductions to them are needed. While several…
August 26, 2021
Math Renaissance
Math Renaissance: Growing Math Circles, Changing Classrooms, and Creating Sustainable Math Education (Natural Math, 2018) couples two educational memo…
July 30, 2021
What Is a Complex System?
While i find it pretty easy to recognize when i'm reading articles in complexity science, i've never been satisfied by definitions of complexity and r…
May 31, 2021
Innumeracy in the Wild
To many mathematicians and math enthusiasts, the word "innumeracy" brings to mind popular writing like that of John Allen Paulos. But inequities in ou…
April 27, 2021
Inspiring Mathematics
Math circles defy simple narratives. The model was introduced a century ago, and is taking off in the present day thanks in part to its congruence wit…
January 8, 2021
A New Year's Present from a Mathematician
It would be simple enough to say that mathematics is being done, and that those who do it are mathematicians. Yet, the history and culture of the math…
December 7, 2020
The Fate of Schrodinger's Cat
Math has a complicated relationship with the counterintuitive: Rigorous logic, calculation, and simulation can both help us wrap our minds around phen…
December 1, 2020
Supermath
Mathematics as a subject is distinctive in its symbolic abstraction and its potential for logical and computational rigor. But mathematicians tend to …
September 29, 2020
How to Free Your Inner Mathematician
Doing mathematics can be stimulating, deep, and sometimes fantastic. It can also be frustrating, impenetrable, and at times dispiriting. In her new co…
September 4, 2020
Dark Data
There is no shortage of books on the growing impact of data collection and analysis on our societies, our cultures, and our everyday lives. David Hand…
July 8, 2020
An Invitation to Applied Category Theory
Category theory is well-known for abstraction—concepts and tools from diverse fields being recognized as specific cases of more foundational structure…
May 29, 2020
Discrete Mathematics with Ducks (Second Edition)
Introductory courses in discrete mathematics cover a variety of distinctive but interconnected topics, from the underpinnings of logic and set theory …
February 26, 2020
Geometry
From an undergraduate perspective, coming from the rigid proofs and concrete constructions of middle- or high-school courses, the broad discipline of …
October 17, 2019
Republic of Numbers
The institutional history of mathematics in the United States comprises several entangled traditions—military, civil, academic, industrial—each of whi…