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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 108 Where Am I?
09/08/2009 Duración: 05minBefore GPS, how could you know your longitude? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 107 A Twisted Take on Turing
23/07/2009 Duración: 04minChanging a test of artificiall intelligence into one of natural nonintelligence. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 106 Pre-Newton Nonsense
12/07/2009 Duración: 05minThe struggle for a theory of physics that would enable cats to jump onto chandeliers. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 105 A Universe Made of Math
30/06/2009 Duración: 03minAre we all simply mathematical objects? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 104 Fortunes, Debts, Ursa Major, and Cow Urine
13/06/2009 Duración: 03minLooking at the contributions of the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 103 Missed It By That Much
31/05/2009 Duración: 04minElections and the Law of Large Numbers. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 102 A Brush With Evil
10/05/2009 Duración: 04minExploring the pentagram. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 101 Don't Panic
19/04/2009 Duración: 02minIf you test positive for a rare disease, should you be worried? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 100 100th Episode Spectacular
05/04/2009 Duración: 04minWhy Math Mutation exists, winners of the Math Day Madness contest, and a correction. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 99 The Uninihibited Brain
22/03/2009 Duración: 05minDaniel Tammet's view of the root cause of his savant abilities. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 98 Math Day Madness
08/03/2009 Duración: 03minAfter E Day and Pi Day, how many other math-related holidays are there? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 97 Savants Are People Too
01/03/2009 Duración: 04minCan Rain Men really instantly count 100 fallen matches? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 96 Tally Folly
17/02/2009 Duración: 03minEnglish tally sticks, and how they destroyed Parliament. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 95 Happy e Day!
08/02/2009 Duración: 03minCelebrating the constant 'e'. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 94 Yes, You Can Cross The Road
25/01/2009 Duración: 04minWhy Zeno didn't prove that motion is impossible. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 93 A Math Teacher To Remember
11/01/2009 Duración: 03minMathermatics and the life of Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 92 Hollow Days
04/01/2009 Duración: 03minThe ill-omened days at the end of the year. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 91 Fractals in the Hat
28/12/2008 Duración: 04minHow Dr. Seuss's 'The Cat In The Hat Comes Back' introduces fractals. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 90 The Long Now
14/12/2008 Duración: 04minWhat are we leaving behind for our descendants in the year 12000? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 89 Improbable Probabilities
07/12/2008 Duración: 05minDo a few statistically significant studies prove a strange phenomenon is true? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)