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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 248: A Safe Bet
07/01/2019 Duración: 06minHow the Base Rate Fallacy can help us find out if the sun has exploded. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 247: Wombat Geometry
28/12/2018 Duración: 04minExploring the secrets of the only animals with cubic dung. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 246: Election Solutions Revisited
02/12/2018 Duración: 05minCan we use mathemtical insights to reduce the partisan conflicts surrounding ballot counting after every election? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 245: How Far Apart Are Numbers?
14/10/2018 Duración: 04minWhat is the "right" way to draw a number line? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 244: Is Music Just Numbers?
08/09/2018 Duración: 06minDo digital methods truly represent the original music, or are we missing something? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 243: The Consciousness Continuum
29/07/2018 Duración: 04minAre being asleep and awake distinct states, or part of a continuous spectrum? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 242: Effort and Impact
24/06/2018 Duración: 06minThe pitfalls of planning using impact-effort analysis. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 241: A Strange Fixation
31/05/2018 Duración: 06minThe surprising properties of the number 6174, known as Kaprekar's Constant. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 240: R.I.P. Little Twelvetoes
05/05/2018 Duración: 05minDiscussing the late Bob Dorough's oddest song, "Little Twelvetoes". (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 239: The Shape of our Knowledge
31/03/2018 Duración: 05minWhat would a diagram of all human knowledge look like? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 238: Programming Your Donkey
18/02/2018 Duración: 06minDoes the "Buridan's Ass" paradox prove the existence of free will? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 237: A Skewed Perspective
15/01/2018 Duración: 03minThe strange relativistic phenomenon of Terrell Rotation. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 236: A Stubborn Tortoise
20/12/2017 Duración: 03minWhy do we believe basic logical arguments? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 235: Syntax Wars
19/11/2017 Duración: 04minDo human languages really need rules of syntax? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 234: Le Grand K
16/10/2017 Duración: 05minThe suprisingly primitive method used for standardizing the kilogram. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 233: A Totalitarian Theorem
28/08/2017 Duración: 05minHow the Pythagorean Theorem influenced Hobbes' Leviathan. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 232: Overcooked Bacon
29/07/2017 Duración: 06minIs there merit to the "Six Degrees of Separation" concept? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 231: A New Dimension in Housing
01/07/2017 Duración: 06minBuckminster Fuller's first four-dimensional house. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 230: Just Say The Dog Ate It
27/05/2017 Duración: 03minShould professors assign famous unsolved problems as homework? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 229: When Numbers Change
26/03/2017 Duración: 05minIf you test a conjecture with values up to 60 digits, can you assume it will be true forever? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)