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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 288: One Stone To Rule Them All
27/12/2023 Duración: 05minEarlier this year, after half a century of searching by many talented mathematicians, an amateur finally discovered an aperiodic monotile. (Send feedback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 287: The Grim State of Modern Pizza
11/09/2023 Duración: 04minThe surprisingly simple GRIM test, and how it helped to debunk the famous Cornell Pizza Studies. (Send feedback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 286: Adventures In Translation
27/08/2023 Duración: 05minI discuss my experiences translating "The Revolution of Promises" by Nelson Rodriguez Chartrand. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 285: Believe My Proofs Or Else
29/06/2023 Duración: 04minHave you used the logical method known as "proof by intimidation"? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 284: Don't Square Numbers, Triangle Them
30/04/2023 Duración: 04minWe discuss Buckminster Fuller's focus on triangles in his Synergetics. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 283: Escape From Infinity
05/03/2023 Duración: 05minIf we deny the existence of infinity, does math still work? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 282: The Man With The Map
20/12/2022 Duración: 05minIn memory of Maurice Karnaugh, we discuss the "K-Map", a nice shortcut for desinging electronic circuits. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 281: Pascal vs Mathematics
30/10/2022 Duración: 04minDiscussing the final decade of Blaise Pascal's life, when he decided math and physics were unworthy of study. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 280: Rubik's Resurgence
26/08/2022 Duración: 05minThanks to social media, Rubik's Cube is popular again. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 279: Improbable Envelopes
01/07/2022 Duración: 05minWe discuss the famous Two Envelopes paradox, along with an unconventional solution. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 278: Bicycle Repair Man
22/05/2022 Duración: 03minAlan Turing's adventures in bicycle repair. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 277: Bad Career Advice
06/04/2022 Duración: 06minShould you aim for a maximally "scalable" profession in order to become rich? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 276: Don't Believe the Math
20/02/2022 Duración: 06minWe discuss Nassim Taleb's "Ludic Fallacy", the incorrect belief that simple mathematical models accurately predict the real world. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 275: Demanding Fair Dice
22/01/2022 Duración: 04minWhat does it take to create fair dice for an online game? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 274: The Gomboc
30/11/2021 Duración: 04minA strange self-righting 3-D shape was only discovered in the 21st century. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 273: A Maze Of Labyrinths
31/10/2021 Duración: 05minWhy are literary and visual labyrinths from ancient and medieval times so different? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 272: The Mathematics of Jackie Mason
20/09/2021 Duración: 05minHow Jackie Mason derived jokes from Talmudic logic. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 271: Too Much Testing
06/08/2021 Duración: 05minThink about the math before getting tested for a rare disease. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 270: Which Way To Turn
15/06/2021 Duración: 02minWhy are screw threads always right-handed? Or are they? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 269: A Good Use of Downtime
25/04/2021 Duración: 04minWe discuss a strange mathematical experiment conducted in a World War II prison camp. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)