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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 48 Computers On The Brain
09/12/2007 Duración: 03minSome engineers have their brains cross-wired to see circuit schematic AND, OR, and NOT gates as particular colors. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 47 An Unusual Lottery
02/12/2007 Duración: 04minA strange lottery run by Douglas Hofstadter in the early 1980s, with interesting implications for human society. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 46 The World's Simplest Computer
25/11/2007 Duración: 04minA new theorem by a British undergraduate has just established the simplest possible computer. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 45 The Aliens Among Us
18/11/2007 Duración: 03minCan we calcuate the number of intelligent life forms in our galaxy with one simple equation? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 44 Friends in Mathematical Places
11/11/2007 Duración: 03minStory of a 19th-century Frenchwoman who pretended to be male for her career in mathematics, and how she revealed her identity to save Gauss. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 43 A Theorem Made Real
04/11/2007 Duración: 03minStrangely enough, pure math can tell us interesting things about global weather patterns. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 42 Solving Burma's Problems
28/10/2007 Duración: 04minThe Burmese military junta's numerological failures. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 41: Action, Drama, and Geometry Lessons
21/10/2007 Duración: 04minReview of Flatland The Movie (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 40 Death By Theorem
14/10/2007 Duración: 03minHow do we know that irrational numbers exist? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 39 A Statistical Legend
07/10/2007 Duración: 03minThe surprising story of how George Dantzig, the father of linear programming, earned his Ph.D. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 38 11-Dimensional Spaghetti Monsters
30/09/2007 Duración: 03minWhere are the missing dimensions of string theory? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 37 Baby Math
23/09/2007 Duración: 03minCan 6-month old babies do basic subtraction? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 36 Christmas in August
16/09/2007 Duración: 04minHow the Romans coped with the odd ratios of the day, the lunar cycle, and the solar cycle. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 35 One Messed-Up Triangle
09/09/2007 Duración: 04minHow non-Euclidean geometry lets you draw a triangle with three right angles. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 34 Not Over Till It's Over
02/09/2007 Duración: 04minHas the riddle of Fermat's Last Theorem truly been solved? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 33 Watch Zeno Make Russia Disappear
26/08/2007 Duración: 03minInfinite series and sub-replacement fertility. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 32 How Polish Math Saved Europe
19/08/2007 Duración: 06minToday we talk about an early Polish success in cracking the Enigma coding machine. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 31 Putting The Multiverse To Work
11/08/2007 Duración: 04minDoes quantum computing prove the existence of parallel universes? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 30 Will The Real Fourth Dimension Please Stand Up
05/08/2007 Duración: 05minIs Time really a dimension? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 29 What A Planet Sounds Like
28/07/2007 Duración: 03minThe Music of the Spheres, taken literally. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)