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Math Mutation
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 253: Making Jewelry With Fermat
We discuss Fermat's Little Theorem, along with an elegant visual proof.
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Math Mutation 252: A Mathematician Translating Pushkin?
Why did a famous math author translate a classic Russian epic poem?
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Math Mutation 251: Paradoxes, Mathematical Oddities, and Formal Verification
Audio of a recent conference talk relating Math Mutation topics to the verification of processor designs.
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Math Mutation 250: Life on the Long Tail
How the Long Tail theory enables Math Mutation to exist.
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Math Mutation 249: The Other Half of the Battle
How poor communication of accurate math destroyed a space shuttle.
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Math Mutation 248: A Safe Bet
How the Base Rate Fallacy can help us find out if the sun has exploded.
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Math Mutation 247: Wombat Geometry
Exploring the secrets of the only animals with cubic dung.
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Math Mutation 246: Election Solutions Revisited
Can we use mathemtical insights to reduce the partisan conflicts surrounding ballot counting after every election?
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Math Mutation 245: How Far Apart Are Numbers?
What is the "right" way to draw a number line?
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Math Mutation 244: Is Music Just Numbers?
Do digital methods truly represent the original music, or are we missing something?
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Math Mutation 243: The Consciousness Continuum
Are being asleep and awake distinct states, or part of a continuous spectrum?
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Math Mutation 242: Effort and Impact
The pitfalls of planning using impact-effort analysis.
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Math Mutation 241: A Strange Fixation
The surprising properties of the number 6174, known as Kaprekar's Constant.
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Math Mutation 240: R.I.P. Little Twelvetoes
Discussing the late Bob Dorough's oddest song, "Little Twelvetoes".
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Math Mutation 239: The Shape of our Knowledge
What would a diagram of all human knowledge look like?
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Math Mutation 238: Programming Your Donkey
Does the "Buridan's Ass" paradox prove the existence of free will?
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Math Mutation 237: A Skewed Perspective
The strange relativistic phenomenon of Terrell Rotation.
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Math Mutation 236: A Stubborn Tortoise
Why do we believe basic logical arguments?
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Math Mutation 235: Syntax Wars
Do human languages really need rules of syntax?
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Math Mutation 234: Le Grand K
The suprisingly primitive method used for standardizing the kilogram.
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Math Mutation 233: A Totalitarian Theorem
How the Pythagorean Theorem influenced Hobbes' Leviathan.
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Math Mutation 232: Overcooked Bacon
Is there merit to the "Six Degrees of Separation" concept?
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Math Mutation 231: A New Dimension in Housing
Buckminster Fuller's first four-dimensional house.
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Math Mutation 230: Just Say The Dog Ate It
Should professors assign famous unsolved problems as homework?
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Math Mutation 229: When Numbers Change
If you test a conjecture with values up to 60 digits, can you assume it will be true forever?
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Math Mutation 228: So Easy It's Hard
Exploring the "Collatz Conjecture", which is simple enough to explain to a child, but has yet to be proven.
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Math Mutation 227: Heads In The Clouds
Gulliver's lesser known voyage to Laputa, which satirized out-of-touch mathematicians.
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Math Mutation 226: See You Next Year
If a friend wants to meet "a year from Monday", when exactly is that?
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Math Mutation 225: A Crazy Kind of Computer
How stochastic computing cleverly utilizes the laws of probability.
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Math Mutation 224: Did America Fail a Math Test?
Did the Third Pound Burger fail because people thought it was too small?
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Math Mutation 223: Think With Both Your Brains
Harness the power of your "R-mode" for problem solving.
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Math Mutation 222: Fractal Expressionism
Are abstract expressionist paintings really fractals?
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Math Mutation 221: The Trouble With Glass Beads
Are modern physicists just playing a "glass bead game"?
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Math Mutation 220: Cognitive BSes
Are the "Cognitive Biases" reallly flaws in the human mind?
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Math Mutation 218: Itching for the I Ching
John Cage's music and the mathematics of the I Ching.
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Math Mutation 219: A Portal to the Past
Can you travel in time using the International Dateline?
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Math Mutation 217: The Oxford Calculators
Discussing a lesser-known group of 14th-century philosophers who laid the foundations for Galileo.
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Math Mutation 216: Bowie Meets Escher
David Bowie was once in a live Escher lithograph.
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Math Mutation 215: It's Not A Conspiracy
Could someone invent a device that alters the laws of probability?
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Math Mutation 214: In Search of the Ultimate Math Game
Are there any good educational math games out for smartphones/tablets?
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