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Sinopsis
Welcome to Math Mutation, a podcast for people of all ages where we discuss fun, interesting, or just plain weird corners of mathematics that you would not have heard in school.(Feedback email erik@mathmutation.com).
Episodios
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Math Mutation 68 The Bogus Bang?
11/05/2008 Duración: 03minA recent theory may replace the Big Bang with a collision of multidimensional membranes. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 67 Chaos
04/05/2008 Duración: 04minWhat appears to be random is not always random. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 66 Fuzzy Dice
20/04/2008 Duración: 02minWhat is the connection between dice and driving? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 65 Sacrificing a Goat To Calculus
14/04/2008 Duración: 04minIs the line between math and religion always clear-cut? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 64 Exponents Squared
06/04/2008 Duración: 04minWhat comes next in this sequence addition, multiplication, exponentiation, ...? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 63 Turning Around In Time
31/03/2008 Duración: 03minCan you make a U-turn in the 4th dimension? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 62 Names of God
23/03/2008 Duración: 03minIn memory of Arthur C. Clarke. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 61 Observing The Universe
16/03/2008 Duración: 03minCalculating what we can see in the universe isn't as simple as counting light-years. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 60 Drop That Number Or We'll Shoot
09/03/2008 Duración: 04minSometimes, math can be illegal. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 59 Fun With Infinities
02/03/2008 Duración: 04minCan we draw infinity on a number line? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 58 On Average, Things Are Average
24/02/2008 Duración: 04minThe Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx explained. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 57 Really Old Math
17/02/2008 Duración: 04minHow ancient Egyptian math may be the source of an 18th-century poem. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 56 My Brain Hurts
12/02/2008 Duración: 04minIf you separate your brain into indiividual neurons, is it still a brain? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 55 The Painter's Paradox
03/02/2008 Duración: 04minWe describe a figure whose surface can never be painted, though its interior can be filled using a finite volume of paint, (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 54 Mozart Rolls The Dice
27/01/2008 Duración: 03minThe randomly-created-music fad of the late 18th century. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 53 Is Flatland Doomed?
20/01/2008 Duración: 04minHow would chemistry and physics change in a two-dimensional universe? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 52 Sparklines
08/01/2008 Duración: 04minTiny graphs that look like words of text can be surprisingly useful. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 51 Why The Week?
30/12/2007 Duración: 04minWhat's so special about the number 7 in our calendar? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 50 A True Holiday Celebration
23/12/2007 Duración: 02minBreathe in an actual molecule shared with Baby Jesus. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 49 What Is Math Anyway?
16/12/2007 Duración: 03minAfter 50 episodes, I finally figure out what I'm talking about. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)