Ep. 440 Ian Deters Studies Free Banking with a Computer Simulation
Mathematician Ian Deters returns to the podcast to summarize the results of his computer simulations of a simple model of “free banking,” as guided by Bob’s instructions. His report has some good news and bad news for Bob. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: The YouTube version of this conversation. This episode’s sponsor, ExPatMoneySummit.com.…
Ep. 287 Ian Deters Defends the Use of Infinity in Higher Mathematics
Back on BMS ep. 229, Bob invited Steve Patterson back to the show to discuss Riemann’s Rearrangement Theorem, which was such a counterintuitive result that Bob changed his mind and agreed with Steve that mathematicians had smuggled nonsense into their field. Math PhD Ian Deters now joins Bob to defend the use of infinity in…