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 Math Mutation
  



Category: Talk - Math
Last Update: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 09:54:46 -0700
Welcome to Math Mutation, a podcast for people of all ages where we discuss fun, interesting, or just plain wierd corners of mathematics that you would not have heard in school.(Feedback email erik@mathmutation.com).


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    Math Mutation 180 Reading The Tea Leaves For Real
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:55:57 -0800 (4.7 Mb)
Discussing Rudy Rucker's idea of using natural processes as a paracomputer. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 179 Bugged By Math
Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:55:57 -0800 (4.4 Mb)
With a brain the size of a pinhead, how do cicadas know about prime numbers? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 178 Mathematical Immortality
Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:55:57 -0800 (5.5 Mb)
What do math and physics say about life after death? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 177 Does This Podcast Exist?
Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:55:57 -0800 (5.2 Mb)
Discussing mathematical proofs that we live in the Matrix. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 176 Perfect Maps
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:55:57 -0800 (4.9 Mb)
The various complications in creating 11 scale maps. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 175 Another Great Math Movie
Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (5.6 Mb)
My review of Sphereland The Movie . (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 174 Too Much Math?
Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (5.6 Mb)
Are scientists and engineers really afraid of equations? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 173 Digital Roots
Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (5.1 Mb)
Why adding up digits isn't just for crazy numerologists. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 172 Election Solutions
Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (7.2 Mb)
The real way to resolve close elections. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 171 Something Euclid Missed
Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (5.2 Mb)
Try drawing the trisectors of each angle of a triangle, and you're in for a surprise. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 170 Gnarly Gnovels
Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (5.9 Mb)
Can math give us insights into the quality of a work of fiction? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 169 Isaac Newton, Supercop
Sun, 05 Aug 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (5.5 Mb)
Newton's lesser-known second career in law enforcement. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 168 Twistier Than You Thought
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (4.9 Mb)
The strange properties and applications of the Mobius strip. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 167 Basic Bugs
Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (5.1 Mb)
How hard is it for a simple automaton to act like a real insect? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 166 A New Kind of Decade
Mon, 28 May 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (5.6 Mb)
Did Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science really revolutionize scientific inquiry? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 165 Comparative Disadvantage
Sun, 13 May 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (4.9 Mb)
How does the Black Swan concept modify the theory of Comparative Advantage? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 164 What Color Is Your Swan?
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (5.1 Mb)
How improbable Black Swans affect our lives and society. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 163 Why Statisticians Stink At Statistics
Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (4.7 Mb)
When estimating probabilities, we are biologically wired to give the wrong answer. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 162 The Mathematician Who Wasn't There
Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (4.9 Mb)
The strange tale of Nicholas Bourbaki. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 161 The Numbers Of Love
Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (5.3 Mb)
How love was defined by Pythagoras. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 160 The Boids And Bees Of Leadership
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (5.1 Mb)
What algorithms do bees use to fly in swarms? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 159 Booms And Busts
Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:55:57 -0800 (5.3 Mb)
Is it always natural to attain an equilibrium? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 158 That's How We Do It In Government
Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (3.3 Mb)
Why government-reported statistics are bogus. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 157 Infinite Infinities
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (4.0 Mb)
How much more infinite can you get? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 156 The Ultimate Answer
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (4.2 Mb)
Reflections upon turning 42. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 155 Crazy Dice
Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (5.2 Mb)
Can a die be fair without being a Platonic solid? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 154 A New Perspective On Perspective
Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (5.3 Mb)
Is perspective in art just a cultural artifact? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 153 Cracking Pythagoras
Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (4.3 Mb)
Are people who give Pythagoras credit for his theorem really cracked? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 152 Why The Hex?
Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (4.4 Mb)
Are bees smarter than math professors? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 151 Forgotten Knowledge
Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (4.2 Mb)
Will future generations forget basic math? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 150 A Podcast About Nothing
Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (5.7 Mb)
A non-zero number of factoids about zero. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 149 Robot Planet
Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (5.7 Mb)
Will reproducing robots consume the Earth? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 148 Your Size In Space And Time
Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (3.0 Mb)
How do you compare to the universe as a whole? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 147 Elemental Obsession
Fri, 27 May 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (5.2 Mb)
Collecting the basic elements of our universe. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 146 Mutating Up The Corporate Ladder
Sun, 08 May 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (5.2 Mb)
Can knowledge of fractals be useful in a day-to-day business setting? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 145 Why Johnny Couldn't Add
Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (6.1 Mb)
How the New Math confused a decade's worth of students and teachers. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 144 Is There A Hippopotamus In This Podcast?
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (4.6 Mb)
Trying to make sense of Russell's conversation with Wittgenstein. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 143 The Math Of Mutations
Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (4.1 Mb)
How D'Arcy Thompson united mathematics and the study of evolution. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 142 Hippasus's Revenge
Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (4.7 Mb)
How the basis of modern music shifted from whole to irrational numbers. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 141 The Right Way To Procrastinate
Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (5.3 Mb)
Review of Logicomix, a graphic novel on the life of Bertrand Russell. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 140 Does The House Always Win?
Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:55:57 -0800 (5.9 Mb)
How MIT math geeks won millions in Vegas. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 139 A Christmas Surprise
Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (4.3 Mb)
Does knowing that a surprise will be a surprise prevent the surprise? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 138 You Can't Fool Bill Gates
Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (4.2 Mb)
The probability paradox of nontransitive dice. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 137 A What What?
Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (4.9 Mb)
The lost art of the slide rule. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 136 Are Coincidences Just Coincidences?
Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (4.6 Mb)
The same brains that make us vulnerable to New Age silliness are what enable success in science math. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 135 Discovering The Third Dimension
Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (4.5 Mb)
Was there a time when Rod Stewart's lyrics would make sense? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 134 As Math Goes By
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (3.4 Mb)
Einstein, the fourth dimension, and Casablanca. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 133 Your Five-Dimensional Kitchen
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (4.4 Mb)
You may find multidimensional geometry on your kitchen shelf. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 132 It Must Be True, There's An Equation
Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (4.4 Mb)
Don't believe everything you equate. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 131 The Perfect Podcast
Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (3.1 Mb)
Can pure mathematics prove the existence of God? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 130 Epsilons And Deltas
Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (4.6 Mb)
Those funny Greek letters that torment calculus students. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 129 Alien Algebra
Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (4.3 Mb)
How unknown alien cultures can see your Facebook photo. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 128 A New Numerology
Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (3.8 Mb)
Is there some mystical number that describes you in detail? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 127 Garden of the Mind
Sun, 30 May 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (4.1 Mb)
R.I.P. Martin Gardner. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 126 Tic Tac What?
Mon, 17 May 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (5.7 Mb)
Tic tac toe, extended into multiple dimensions quantum mechanics. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 125 Math Or Not Math?
Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (5.0 Mb)
Hofstadter's Le Ton Beau De Marot, and how math relates to translating poetry. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 124 Everything Is A Rubber Donut
Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (4.5 Mb)
Topology and the Poincare Conjecture. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 123 A Million Dollar Choice
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (4.1 Mb)
Newcomb's paradox, another challenge to free will. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 122 Resolving A Paradox
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (4.2 Mb)
Does the Grandfather Paradox show time travel is impossible? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 121 Why Left Is Right And Right Is Left
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (3.2 Mb)
Why do mirrors reverse right and left, but not up and down? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 120 A Pear-Shaped Planet
Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (3.6 Mb)
What did Columbus really think about the Earth's size and shape? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 119 Look Him In The Eye
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (3.9 Mb)
The colorful biography of Asperger's sufferer John Elder Robison high school dropout, KISS roadie, professional engineer, auto mechanic, and entrepeneur. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 118 Monkeying Around With Probability
Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:55:57 -0800 (5.8 Mb)
Does basic probability show that life in our universe could not have come about through evolution? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 117 A Question Of Assumptions
Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (4.5 Mb)
With different physical constants in the universe, could we still exist? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 116 Infinitely Ahead Of His Time
Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (4.9 Mb)
Did Cantor's transfinite numbers advance mathematics and glorify God, or were they a tool of the devil? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 115 I Have Lied To You
Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (4.6 Mb)
Can each episode of Math Mutation be correct, while there is an error somewhere in the series? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 114 Where Did My Line Go?
Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (4.2 Mb)
How to have your line segment and eat it too. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 113 Hippos In My Basement
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (3.3 Mb)
The magic of the contrapositive. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 112 The Genius Who Cheated
Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (4.7 Mb)
Were Gregor Mendel's experimental results a bit too good? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 111 A Four-Dimensional House
Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (4.1 Mb)
Can an architect in our 3-D world build a four dimensional house? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 110 One Intestinal Worm Per Child
Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (5.0 Mb)
Amdahl's Law, de-worming, and the One Laptop Per Child initiative. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 109 Back To The Hall
Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (4.2 Mb)
The Monty Hall Paradox revisited. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 108 Where Am I?
Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (5.5 Mb)
Before GPS, how could you know your longitude? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 107 A Twisted Take on Turing
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (4.7 Mb)
Changing a test of artificiall intelligence into one of natural nonintelligence. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 106 Pre-Newton Nonsense
Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (5.0 Mb)
The struggle for a theory of physics that would enable cats to jump onto chandeliers. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 105 A Universe Made of Math
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (3.5 Mb)
Are we all simply mathematical objects? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 104 Fortunes, Debts, Ursa Major, and Cow Urine
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (3.7 Mb)
Looking at the contributions of the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 103 Missed It By That Much
Sun, 31 May 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (3.9 Mb)
Elections and the Law of Large Numbers. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 102 A Brush With Evil
Sun, 10 May 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (4.1 Mb)
Exploring the pentagram. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 101 Don't Panic
Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (2.7 Mb)
If you test positive for a rare disease, should you be worried? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 100 100th Episode Spectacular
Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (4.0 Mb)
Why Math Mutation exists, winners of the Math Day Madness contest, and a correction. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 99 The Uninihibited Brain
Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (5.1 Mb)
Daniel Tammet's view of the root cause of his savant abilities. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 98 Math Day Madness
Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (3.8 Mb)
After E Day and Pi Day, how many other math-related holidays are there? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 97 Savants Are People Too
Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (4.1 Mb)
Can Rain Men really instantly count 100 fallen matches? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 96 Tally Folly
Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (3.7 Mb)
English tally sticks, and how they destroyed Parliament. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 95 Happy e Day!
Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (3.8 Mb)
Celebrating the constant 'e'. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 94 Yes, You Can Cross The Road
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (4.6 Mb)
Why Zeno didn't prove that motion is impossible. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 93 A Math Teacher To Remember
Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (3.6 Mb)
Mathermatics and the life of Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 92 Hollow Days
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:55:57 -0800 (2.9 Mb)
The ill-omened days at the end of the year. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 91 Fractals in the Hat
Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:55:57 -0800 (4.5 Mb)
How Dr. Seuss's 'The Cat In The Hat Comes Back' introduces fractals. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 90 The Long Now
Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:55:57 -0800 (4.4 Mb)
What are we leaving behind for our descendants in the year 12000? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 89 Improbable Probabilities
Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:55:57 -0800 (5.4 Mb)
Do a few statistically significant studies prove a strange phenomenon is true? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 88 More Than A Cartoon Cat
Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:55:57 -0800 (3.1 Mb)
A mathematical contribution from President James Garfield. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 87 Unlistenable But Fun
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:55:57 -0800 (3.8 Mb)
The bizarre mathematical methods John Cage used to produce some of his music. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 86 The Shape of the Universe
Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:55:57 -0800 (4.0 Mb)
Was Homer Simpson's theory of a donut-shaped universe correct? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 85 Florence Nightingale, Math Geek
Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:55:57 -0800 (3.6 Mb)
The connections between mathematics and the founding of modern nursing. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 84 How To Bankrupt Your Boss And Get Rich
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:55:57 -0800 (4.2 Mb)
If a stock has a 90% chance of going up, should you buy it? Maybe not! (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 83 Candide's Calculus
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:55:57 -0800 (3.0 Mb)
The surprising connection between mathematics and Voltaire's satirical novel. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 82 How Not To Decorate Your Bathroom
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:55:57 -0800 (4.2 Mb)
Can you tile your bathroom floor without ever repeating the pattern? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)


    Math Mutation 81 A Billion Frenchmen Can Be Wrong
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:55:57 -0800 (3.5 Mb)
Why does the word billion sometimes mean 10 to the 9th, and other times mean 10 to the 12th? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)



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