EP #255 - 04.07.2021 - Mathematics and the Pandemic

Today my guest is historian of science and mathematics Michael Barany.

Michael Barany is a historian of science and mathematics in the Science Technology and Innovation Studies subject group at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He completed his 2016 PhD in the history of science at Princeton University and was a member of the Dartmouth College Society of Fellows. His current research focuses on the globalization of modern mathematics and on the social and material infrastructures (most notably the blackboard) of abstract knowledge.