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 168 Twistier Than You Thought
14/07/2012 Duración: 05minThe strange properties and applications of the Mobius strip. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 167 Basic Bugs
26/06/2012 Duración: 05minHow hard is it for a simple automaton to act like a real insect? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 166 A New Kind of Decade
28/05/2012 Duración: 05minDid Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science really revolutionize scientific inquiry? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 165 Comparative Disadvantage
13/05/2012 Duración: 05minHow does the Black Swan concept modify the theory of Comparative Advantage? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 164 What Color Is Your Swan?
22/04/2012 Duración: 05minHow improbable Black Swans affect our lives and society. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 163 Why Statisticians Stink At Statistics
01/04/2012 Duración: 04minWhen estimating probabilities, we are biologically wired to give the wrong answer. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 162 The Mathematician Who Wasn't There
14/03/2012 Duración: 05minThe strange tale of Nicholas Bourbaki. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 161 The Numbers Of Love
19/02/2012 Duración: 05minHow love was defined by Pythagoras. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 160 The Boids And Bees Of Leadership
24/01/2012 Duración: 05minWhat algorithms do bees use to fly in swarms? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 159 Booms And Busts
02/01/2012 Duración: 05minIs it always natural to attain an equilibrium? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 158 That's How We Do It In Government
18/12/2011 Duración: 03minWhy government-reported statistics are bogus. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 157 Infinite Infinities
29/11/2011 Duración: 04minHow much more infinite can you get? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 156 The Ultimate Answer
15/11/2011 Duración: 04minReflections upon turning 42. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 155 Crazy Dice
23/10/2011 Duración: 05minCan a die be fair without being a Platonic solid? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 154 A New Perspective On Perspective
09/10/2011 Duración: 05minIs perspective in art just a cultural artifact? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 153 Cracking Pythagoras
25/09/2011 Duración: 04minAre people who give Pythagoras credit for his theorem really cracked? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 152 Why The Hex?
04/09/2011 Duración: 04minAre bees smarter than math professors? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 151 Forgotten Knowledge
14/08/2011 Duración: 04minWill future generations forget basic math? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 150 A Podcast About Nothing
24/07/2011 Duración: 05minA non-zero number of factoids about zero. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 149 Robot Planet
28/06/2011 Duración: 05minWill reproducing robots consume the Earth? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)