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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 228: So Easy It's Hard
19/02/2017 Duración: 05minExploring the "Collatz Conjecture", which is simple enough to explain to a child, but has yet to be proven. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 227: Heads In The Clouds
29/01/2017 Duración: 06minGulliver's lesser known voyage to Laputa, which satirized out-of-touch mathematicians. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 226: See You Next Year
29/12/2016 Duración: 04minIf a friend wants to meet "a year from Monday", when exactly is that? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 225: A Crazy Kind of Computer
29/11/2016 Duración: 06minHow stochastic computing cleverly utilizes the laws of probability. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 224: Did America Fail a Math Test?
31/10/2016 Duración: 04minDid the Third Pound Burger fail because people thought it was too small? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 223: Think With Both Your Brains
26/09/2016 Duración: 06minHarness the power of your "R-mode" for problem solving. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 222: Fractal Expressionism
22/08/2016 Duración: 05minAre abstract expressionist paintings really fractals? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 221: The Trouble With Glass Beads
30/06/2016 Duración: 07minAre modern physicists just playing a "glass bead game"? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 220: Cognitive BSes
04/06/2016 Duración: 05minAre the "Cognitive Biases" reallly flaws in the human mind? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 218: Itching for the I Ching
27/03/2016 Duración: 06minJohn Cage's music and the mathematics of the I Ching. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 219: A Portal to the Past
27/03/2016 Duración: 06minCan you travel in time using the International Dateline? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 217: The Oxford Calculators
24/02/2016 Duración: 05minDiscussing a lesser-known group of 14th-century philosophers who laid the foundations for Galileo. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 216: Bowie Meets Escher
03/02/2016 Duración: 05minDavid Bowie was once in a live Escher lithograph. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 215: It's Not A Conspiracy
23/12/2015 Duración: 05minCould someone invent a device that alters the laws of probability? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 214: In Search of the Ultimate Math Game
29/11/2015 Duración: 05minAre there any good educational math games out for smartphones/tablets? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 213 Proof of the Fourth Dimension
25/10/2015 Duración: 05minDid Rudolf Steiner prove our minds are four-dimensional 100 years ago? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 212 De-Abstracting Your Life
27/09/2015 Duración: 05minHow to fight stereotypes and prejudice using indexing and dating (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 211 Saving A Few Million Years
30/08/2015 Duración: 06minI shamelessly plug my new Formal Verification book. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 210 Two Plus Two Equals Five
26/07/2015 Duración: 05minIs it ever valid to claim that 2+2=5? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 209 Wheels That Aren't Round
21/06/2015 Duración: 04minThe surprising properties of non-circular curves of constant width. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)