Math Mutation 288: One Stone To Rule Them All
Earlier this year, after half a century of searching by many talented mathematicians, an amateur finally discovered an aperiodic monotile. (...
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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 ema...
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Listen to Math Mutation, a Science & Medicine podcast by Erik Seligman. Stream 289 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 289 episodesMath Mutation 287: The Grim State of Modern Pizza
The surprisingly simple GRIM test, and how it helped to debunk the famous Cornell Pizza Studies. (Send feedback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Math Mutation 286: Adventures In Translation
I discuss my experiences translating "The Revolution of Promises" by Nelson Rodriguez Chartrand. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Math Mutation 285: Believe My Proofs Or Else
Have you used the logical method known as "proof by intimidation"? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Math Mutation 284: Don't Square Numbers, Triangle Them
We discuss Buckminster Fuller's focus on triangles in his Synergetics. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Math Mutation 283: Escape From Infinity
If we deny the existence of infinity, does math still work? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Math Mutation 282: The Man With The Map
In memory of Maurice Karnaugh, we discuss the "K-Map", a nice shortcut for desinging electronic circuits. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation...
Math Mutation 281: Pascal vs Mathematics
Discussing the final decade of Blaise Pascal's life, when he decided math and physics were unworthy of study. (Send feeback to erik@mathmuta...
Math Mutation 280: Rubik's Resurgence
Thanks to social media, Rubik's Cube is popular again. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Math Mutation 279: Improbable Envelopes
We discuss the famous Two Envelopes paradox, along with an unconventional solution. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Math Mutation 278: Bicycle Repair Man
Alan Turing's adventures in bicycle repair. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Math Mutation 277: Bad Career Advice
Should you aim for a maximally "scalable" profession in order to become rich? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Math Mutation 276: Don't Believe the Math
We discuss Nassim Taleb's "Ludic Fallacy", the incorrect belief that simple mathematical models accurately predict the real world. (Send fee...
Math Mutation 275: Demanding Fair Dice
What does it take to create fair dice for an online game? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Math Mutation 274: The Gomboc
A strange self-righting 3-D shape was only discovered in the 21st century. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Math Mutation 273: A Maze Of Labyrinths
Why are literary and visual labyrinths from ancient and medieval times so different? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Math Mutation 272: The Mathematics of Jackie Mason
How Jackie Mason derived jokes from Talmudic logic. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Math Mutation 271: Too Much Testing
Think about the math before getting tested for a rare disease. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Math Mutation 270: Which Way To Turn
Why are screw threads always right-handed? Or are they? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Math Mutation 269: A Good Use of Downtime
We discuss a strange mathematical experiment conducted in a World War II prison camp. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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