ET. Your Holiday Gift Guide

FromThe Math Factor

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ET. Your Holiday Gift Guide

FromThe Math Factor

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17 minutes

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Dec 1, 2008

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Our favorite new and not-so-new products for 2008! Check out Zome, Puzzellations, DROD, Magic Mirror Coloring Book, The Riddles of the Sphinx, the Nikoli puzzle company, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, How Round is your Circle and many more ideas!

Released:

Dec 1, 2008

Format:

Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

A brief, weekly math conversation and puzzle, airing on KUAF 91.3 FM, Fayetteville Arkansas. Send your answers, comments, questions, puzzles, or cash, to mathfactor@uark.edu!

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AM. Arrow's Theorem: Can A be better than B, B be better than C and C be better than A? No voting system will ever be fair! by The Math Factor
9 min listen
AA. The Way Out of the Forest: Which way leads out of the forest of Liars & Truth-tellers by The Math Factor
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AH. QED: In this "secret track", we show there are vastly more real numbers than rationals! by The Math Factor
5 min listen
AO. Choosing Balls from A Bag: A fifty-fifty chance of drawing four blue balls from a bag: how many balls were blue? by The Math Factor
3 min listen
AD. Bigger and Smaller Infinities: Are there only half as many even numbers as counting numbers? by The Math Factor
8 min listen
AG. The Eagle: How far does the eagle fly as it makes an infinite series of shorter and shorter trips? by The Math Factor
6 min listen
BJ. The Most Powerful Force: Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. He didn't really say that, but the sentiment is valid. If you compound more and more frequently, is there a limit on the interest one can earn? by The Math Factor
9 min listen
AK. Paradoxes and Liars: The mathematics of gossiping! by The Math Factor
4 min listen
AE. The Jalopy: What is "average?" by The Math Factor
5 min listen
AI. Census Taker's Puzzle: More puzzles from the Mathfactor, featuring the mathematical stylings of KUAF's Kyle Kellams and Chaim Goodman-Strauss. by The Math Factor
4 min listen
AC. No Vacancy: A hotel with an infinite number of rooms... by The Math Factor
7 min listen
DA. Cake Conundrum: Dennis Shasha poses a cake conundrum! Should Marie trust her older brother's scheme? by The Math Factor
6 min listen
BG. Bamboopalooza!: Join Chaim and Kyle at Bamboopalooza 3! Octahedral pencil holders, giant 12 pointed bamboo stars, pig lighters and other mathematical oddments were enjoyed by all! (Google for pictures!) by The Math Factor
11 min listen
AR. Quick Game: Two players take turns removing coins from a line; how can the first player always be sure to have at least as much money as the second? by The Math Factor
5 min listen
AB. The Rational Ruler: Finer and finer, a ruler with infinitely many marks... by The Math Factor
7 min listen
AN. More Sucker Bets: Is there always a better choice? by The Math Factor
6 min listen
BD. Magic Numbers: We discuss a neat trick involving powers, mod a pair of primes. by The Math Factor
7 min listen
BF. Catching Errors: Credit card numbers have an error catching code, that uses the tricks of the last few weeks. by The Math Factor
5 min listen
AJ. The Pop Quiz: Why 462 is the least interesting number less than 1000, and the students get a paradoxical pop quiz. by The Math Factor
5 min listen
BO. When did you say?: The solution, and a very easy puzzle. by The Math Factor
6 min listen
AX. Averages are not what they seem!: Is a man of perfectly average height, and perfectly average weight, too heavy for his size? Averages are not what they seem to be. by The Math Factor
7 min listen
AU. Dennis Shasha asks about Polish Multiplication: Dennis Shasha, puzzle columnist for Scientific American, asks about a curious way to multiply numbers on your fingers. by The Math Factor
4 min listen
AL. Rumors and suckers: In which we show gossip is unreliable and how you can always fleece a sucker. by The Math Factor
6 min listen
AF. Counting All: Are the rationals rational? by The Math Factor
8 min listen
AT. Peter Winkler Answers: Peter Winkler answers. Another puzzle next week! by The Math Factor
4 min listen
BV. 9's Strike Again: A beginner's guide to mind-reading. by The Math Factor
4 min listen
BP. The Smuggler's Fee: Dennis Shasha, author of the "Puzzler's Elusion" gives us a new puzzle. by The Math Factor
6 min listen
AW. Will we run out of Social Security Numbers?: When will the crisis come? When will we run out of Social Security Numbers, and other musings. by The Math Factor
5 min listen
CK. The Third Tree: Niclas Hedell asks how to find a third tree in the forest. And the stork nabs the frog. by The Math Factor
9 min listen
BL. Eternally diminishing returns: With enough time and patience and bananas, can we go as far as we please? by The Math Factor
7 min listen

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HR. CardColm: Colm Mulcahy joins us to share some of his card magic! by The Math Factor
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HQ. Newton v Leibnitz: A break from puzzling to discuss the history of the great Newton-Liebnitz dispute over the invention of Calculus, with the playwright Todd Taylor. by The Math Factor
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HP. Happy Root 10 Day: For procrastinators... by The Math Factor
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HO. Crazies On The Plane: Madness in the aisles... by The Math Factor
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HN. Barbette: The great aerialist Barbette makes an wholly gratuitous appearance on the Math Factor, and a few quick puzzles. by The Math Factor
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HM. Five Cards: Big math news, answers and a quick and easy puzzle. by The Math Factor
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HL. Bear Hunt: Kyle stumps Chaim, and we revisit a neat twist on an old chestnut by The Math Factor
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HK. Spiders and Fly: Another pursuit puzzle from the Math Factor by The Math Factor
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HJ. Strange Suitor: An odd marriage proposal... by The Math Factor
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Hi! Getting Closer: How close can we get to exactly one glass of water? by The Math Factor
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HH. Corpuscle Candy: Hot piles of M&M's! by The Math Factor
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HG. Two Love: Numbers, numbers numbers... hadn't noticed there are so many of them. by The Math Factor
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HF. True Love: In which Chaim ponders how much his true love loves him truly. by The Math Factor
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HE. On Cake and Coffee: In which we discuss the mystery of cooling coffee. by The Math Factor
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HD. The Math Factor Returns: And we're back in the studio together again! Lots of great stuff to come! by The Math Factor
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HC. Strongly Connected Components: Check out the Strongly Connected Components podcast at acmescience.com by The Math Factor
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HB. Puzzlers Pegg and Stephens: Back with an interview with two fantastic puzzlers, Ed Pegg (mathpuzzle.com) and James Stephens (puzzlebeast.com) Check out mathfactor.uark.edu for lots of links to the puzzles and people they talk about. by The Math Factor
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HA! Conway on Gardner: John H. Conway on his friendship with Martin Gardner. by The Math Factor
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The Math Factor Takes a Bow: We are taking the summer off (at a minimum) but check back in a while for new segments. And don't forget to drop us a line! by The Math Factor
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GY. Conversation with Greg Chaitin: A conversation with Greg Chaitin, creator of Chaitin's Omega and author, most recently, of MetaMath!! These ideas are well worth a close listen. by The Math Factor
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GW. Wolfram's Principle of Computational Equivalence: Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and author of A New Kind of Science describes a fundamental principle, showing how irreducible complexity arises even in simple systems. by The Math Factor
8 min listen
G4G9 Report From the Gathering: Quick interviews at the Gathering, with Stephen Wolfram, Will Shortz, Dale Seymore, John Conway and many others! by The Math Factor
22 min listen
GV. Three Quick G4G9 Puzzles From Ed Pegg: We catch up with Ed Pegg, of mathpuzzle.com who gives us three great puzzles! Now Tweeting from G4G9! by The Math Factor
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GW. Math Factor Hits The Road: The Math Factor hits the road, with live updates from the Gathering For Gardner! And the premier of James Greeson's Canon and Chorale on Pi. by The Math Factor
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GV. Mix Up At The Five And Dime: A vintage segment from July 11, 2004. by The Math Factor
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GU. Number Freak: Derrick Niederman tells us what is so un-22 about Catch 22, and other marvels from his new book, Number Freak. by The Math Factor
12 min listen
GT. The Largest Escher Exhibit Ever: The largest Escher exhibit ever is on display in Boca Raton. A must see event! by The Math Factor
20 min listen
GS. I Met A Man: In which we discuss the yillion and a strange encounter with an aged man. by The Math Factor
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GR. VIth Anniversary of the Math Factor!: That's right, we return with our sixth anniversary "special". Can a clip show be far behind? by The Math Factor
10 min listen
GQ. Durned Ants: Keep those durned outs offa me! by The Math Factor
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