Math Mutation

Math Mutation

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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).

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  • Math Mutation 48 Computers On The Brain

    Math Mutation 48 Computers On The Brain

    09/12/2007 Duración: 03min

    Some engineers have their brains cross-wired to see circuit schematic AND, OR, and NOT gates as particular colors. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 47 An Unusual Lottery

    Math Mutation 47 An Unusual Lottery

    02/12/2007 Duración: 04min

    A strange lottery run by Douglas Hofstadter in the early 1980s, with interesting implications for human society. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 46 The Worlds Simplest Computer

    Math Mutation 46 The World's Simplest Computer

    25/11/2007 Duración: 04min

    A new theorem by a British undergraduate has just established the simplest possible computer. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 45 The Aliens Among Us

    Math Mutation 45 The Aliens Among Us

    18/11/2007 Duración: 03min

    Can we calcuate the number of intelligent life forms in our galaxy with one simple equation? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 44 Friends in Mathematical Places

    Math Mutation 44 Friends in Mathematical Places

    11/11/2007 Duración: 03min

    Story 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)

  • Math Mutation 43 A Theorem Made Real

    Math Mutation 43 A Theorem Made Real

    04/11/2007 Duración: 03min

    Strangely enough, pure math can tell us interesting things about global weather patterns. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 42 Solving Burmas Problems

    Math Mutation 42 Solving Burma's Problems

    28/10/2007 Duración: 04min

    The Burmese military junta's numerological failures. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 41: Action, Drama, and Geometry Lessons

    Math Mutation 41: Action, Drama, and Geometry Lessons

    21/10/2007 Duración: 04min

    Review of Flatland The Movie (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 40 Death By Theorem

    Math Mutation 40 Death By Theorem

    14/10/2007 Duración: 03min

    How do we know that irrational numbers exist? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 39 A Statistical Legend

    Math Mutation 39 A Statistical Legend

    07/10/2007 Duración: 03min

    The surprising story of how George Dantzig, the father of linear programming, earned his Ph.D. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 38 11-Dimensional Spaghetti Monsters

    Math Mutation 38 11-Dimensional Spaghetti Monsters

    30/09/2007 Duración: 03min

    Where are the missing dimensions of string theory? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 37 Baby Math

    Math Mutation 37 Baby Math

    23/09/2007 Duración: 03min

    Can 6-month old babies do basic subtraction? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 36 Christmas in August

    Math Mutation 36 Christmas in August

    16/09/2007 Duración: 04min

    How the Romans coped with the odd ratios of the day, the lunar cycle, and the solar cycle. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 35 One Messed-Up Triangle

    Math Mutation 35 One Messed-Up Triangle

    09/09/2007 Duración: 04min

    How non-Euclidean geometry lets you draw a triangle with three right angles. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 34 Not Over Till Its Over

    Math Mutation 34 Not Over Till It's Over

    02/09/2007 Duración: 04min

    Has the riddle of Fermat's Last Theorem truly been solved? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 33 Watch Zeno Make Russia Disappear

    Math Mutation 33 Watch Zeno Make Russia Disappear

    26/08/2007 Duración: 03min

    Infinite series and sub-replacement fertility. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 32 How Polish Math Saved Europe

    Math Mutation 32 How Polish Math Saved Europe

    19/08/2007 Duración: 06min

    Today we talk about an early Polish success in cracking the Enigma coding machine. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 31 Putting The Multiverse To Work

    Math Mutation 31 Putting The Multiverse To Work

    11/08/2007 Duración: 04min

    Does quantum computing prove the existence of parallel universes? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 30 Will The Real Fourth Dimension Please Stand Up

    Math Mutation 30 Will The Real Fourth Dimension Please Stand Up

    05/08/2007 Duración: 05min

    Is Time really a dimension? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

  • Math Mutation 29 What A Planet Sounds Like

    Math Mutation 29 What A Planet Sounds Like

    28/07/2007 Duración: 03min

    The Music of the Spheres, taken literally. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

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