Math Mutation 49 What Is Math Anyway?

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Math Mutation 49 What Is Math Anyway?

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Dec 16, 2007

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After 50 episodes, I finally figure out what I'm talking about.

(Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Released:

Dec 16, 2007

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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).

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Math Mutation 67 Chaos: What appears to be random is not always random. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 34 Not Over Till It's Over: Has the riddle of Fermat's Last Theorem truly been solved? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 35 One Messed-Up Triangle: How non-Euclidean geometry lets you draw a triangle with three right angles. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 26 That Krazy Kepler: Discussing one of Johannes Kepler's lesser known, and sillier, theories. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 52 Sparklines: Tiny graphs that look like words of text can be surprisingly useful. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 71 What Goes Around, Comes Around: On a number line, are positive and negative infinity really the same point? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 104 Fortunes, Debts, Ursa Major, and Cow Urine: Looking at the contributions of the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 46 The World's Simplest Computer: A new theorem by a British undergraduate has just established the simplest possible computer. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 36 Christmas in August: How the Romans coped with the odd ratios of the day, the lunar cycle, and the solar cycle. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 44 Friends in Mathematical Places: Story of a 19th-century Frenchwoman who pretended to be male for her career in mathematics, and how she revealed her identity to save Gauss. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 19 Throwing Darts At Your Problems: The power of randomized algorithms. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 69 Interesting Numbers: The unusual story of the Indian mathematician Ramanujan. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 130 Epsilons And Deltas: Those funny Greek letters that torment calculus students. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 92 Hollow Days: The ill-omened days at the end of the year. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 78 And You Thought Those Mice Were Smart: If mice can do probability theory, why can't worms do calculus? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 45 The Aliens Among Us: Can we calcuate the number of intelligent life forms in our galaxy with one simple equation? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 98 Math Day Madness: After E Day and Pi Day, how many other math-related holidays are there? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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Math Mutation 95 Happy e Day!: Celebrating the constant 'e'. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com) by Math Mutation
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