Math Mutation

podcast

Suscribirse

Math Mutation

Por Erik Seligman
En Math Mutation

Math Mutation 233: A Totalitarian Theorem

How the Pythagorean Theorem influenced Hobbes' Leviathan. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 232: Overcooked Bacon

Is there merit to the "Six Degrees of Separation" concept? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 231: A New Dimension in Housing

Buckminster Fuller's first four-dimensional house. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 230: Just Say The Dog Ate It

Should professors assign famous unsolved problems as homework? (Send feeback to...

Añadir a ... 

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?...

Añadir a ... 

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...

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 227: Heads In The Clouds

Gulliver's lesser known voyage to Laputa, which satirized out-of-touch mathematicians. (Send...

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 226: See You Next Year

If a friend wants to meet "a week from Monday", when exactly is that? (Send feeback to...

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 225: A Crazy Kind of Computer

How stochastic computing cleverly utilizes the laws of probability. (Send feeback to...

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 224: Did America Fail a Math Test?

Did the Third Pound Burger fail because people thought it was too small? (Send feeback to...

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 223: Think With Both Your Brains

Harness the power of your "R-mode" for problem solving. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 222: Fractal Expressionism

Are abstract expressionist paintings really fractals? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 221: The Trouble With Glass Beads

Are modern physicists just playing a "glass bead game"? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 220: Cognitive BSes

Are the "Cognitive Biases" reallly flaws in the human mind? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 218: Itching for the I Ching

John Cage's music and the mathematics of the I Ching. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 219: A Portal to the Past

Can you travel in time using the International Dateline? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 217: The Oxford Calculators

Discussing a lesser-known group of 14th-century philosophers who laid the foundations for...

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 216: Bowie Meets Escher

David Bowie was once in a live Escher lithograph. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 215: It's Not A Conspiracy

Could someone invent a device that alters the laws of probability? (Send feeback to...

Añadir a ... 

Math Mutation 214: In Search of the Ultimate Math Game

Are there any good educational math games out for smartphones/tablets? (Send feeback to...

Añadir a ...