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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 28 Someone Knocked My 8 Over]()
Math Mutation 28 Someone Knocked My 8 Over
22/07/2007 Duración: 03minWhere does that weird infinity symbol come from? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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![Math Mutation 27 How Many Crayons Do You Need?]()
Math Mutation 27 How Many Crayons Do You Need?
04/07/2007 Duración: 04minSurprisingly, any map can be filled in with just four colors. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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![Math Mutation 26 That Krazy Kepler]()
Math Mutation 26 That Krazy Kepler
30/06/2007 Duración: 04minDiscussing one of Johannes Kepler's lesser known, and sillier, theories. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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![Math Mutation 25 Everything Is a Number]()
Math Mutation 25 Everything Is a Number
23/06/2007 Duración: 04minHow Godel twisted statements about numbers into statements about statements. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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![Math Mutation 24 A Mathematical Nuclear Bomb]()
Math Mutation 24 A Mathematical Nuclear Bomb
16/06/2007 Duración: 03minHow Godel's Incompleteness Theorem blew away hopes of a complete system of mathematics. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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![Math Mutation 23 Stupid Number Tricks]()
Math Mutation 23 Stupid Number Tricks
09/06/2007 Duración: 03minHow to look like a math genius, even if you're not. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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![Math Mutation 22 Between The Dimensions]()
Math Mutation 22 Between The Dimensions
02/06/2007 Duración: 03minMore on fractals, and why they are considered to have fractional dimensions. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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![Math Mutation 21 Infinite Perimeter, Finite Area]()
Math Mutation 21 Infinite Perimeter, Finite Area
27/05/2007 Duración: 03minDescribing the Koch Snowflake, a classic example of a fractal curve. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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![Math Mutation 20 The Round Road To Damnation]()
Math Mutation 20 The Round Road To Damnation
19/05/2007 Duración: 03minDo religious Jews and Christians really believe pi=3? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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![Math Mutation 19 Throwing Darts At Your Problems]()
Math Mutation 19 Throwing Darts At Your Problems
12/05/2007 Duración: 03minThe power of randomized algorithms. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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![Math Mutation 18 Squash Those Dice]()
Math Mutation 18 Squash Those Dice
05/05/2007 Duración: 03minWhy are there exactly five platonic solids? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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![Math Mutation 17 Visitors From The Next Dimension]()
Math Mutation 17 Visitors From The Next Dimension
28/04/2007 Duración: 03minWhat would it look like if a four-dimensional creature dropped by for a visit? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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![Math Mutation 16 Doodling]()
Math Mutation 16 Doodling
21/04/2007 Duración: 02minWhat kind of pictures do you draw when your attention wanders? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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![Math Mutation 15 A Pretty Big Library]()
Math Mutation 15 A Pretty Big Library
14/04/2007 Duración: 03minWe discuss Borges' Library of Babel, which contains every possible book. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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![Math Mutation 14 Exponentials for Easter]()
Math Mutation 14 Exponentials for Easter
07/04/2007 Duración: 03minBunny math. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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![Math Mutation 13 Another Problem for the Millenium]()
Math Mutation 13 Another Problem for the Millenium
31/03/2007 Duración: 05minWhat is the P=NP problem? (Send feeback to erik@erikseligman.com)
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![Math Mutation 12 Refusing the Nobel Prize]()
Math Mutation 12 Refusing the Nobel Prize
24/03/2007 Duración: 03minThe bizarre human drama surrounding the proof of the Poincare Conjecture. (Send feeback to erik@erikseligman.com)
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![Math Mutation 11 A Movie You Should See]()
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![Math Mutation 10 The Rain Mans Secret]()
Math Mutation 10 The Rain Man's Secret
10/03/2007 Duración: 03minHow autistic savants perform their miracles. (Send feeback to erik@erikseligman.com)
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![Math Mutation 9 The World As A Computer]()
Math Mutation 9 The World As A Computer
03/03/2007 Duración: 04minCellular Automata and the Game of Life
