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Odds and Evenings

Odds and Evenings

Playing around with maths and puzzles was something that the two hosts spent their time at university doing together. Now in their late twenties with proper grown up jobs, Alaric and Alex ca...

Odds and Evenings Podcast Guide

Listen to Odds and Evenings, a Education podcast by Odds and Evenings. Stream 33 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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#32 - Quiz Shows, Queues and Quavers

The boys return to think about the structure of a quiz show round, they learn how to queue effectively and they investigate the best tunings...

1:05:18Jun 15, 2020

#30 - Delta-Y, Diversity and Dynamics

The boys sit down with an infinite box of resistors, worry just how diverse their business is and think through the peculiar physics of ball...

53:37Jul 14, 2019

Mini Episode: Bidding Game

Here's something a little different. Over at Aperiodical they are running the Big Internet Math Off 2019 (https://aperiodical.com/2019/06/an...

12:12Jul 5, 2019

#29 - Pyramids, Pitches and Pumps

The boys are back for season two! They try ramping Pascal's Triangle up a couple of dimensions, consider the physics of how we control volum...

1:07:34Jun 10, 2019

#28 - Rugby, Rolling and Robots

The boys help organise a rugby training scheme, set robots upon an infinite hotel and discover some lovely patterns in the probability of Sn...

1:33:26Mar 16, 2019

#27 - Strangers, Scaling and Scores

The boys partake unto an unwavering curiousity as to who is friends with whom. Infinite-dimensional animals are discussed, and they ponder t...

1:09:38Feb 14, 2019

#26 - Geometry, Goblins and Getting to Pubs

The boys find themselves on the wrong side of the mathematical orthodoxy, rejecting the concepts of distance and angles, before immediately...

1:12:21Jan 28, 2019

#25 - Codes, Coins and Criss-Crosses

Here's a copy of the puzzle that Alaric wrote for the conference: Chyptic Chossword (https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/b/b3fcc274-493e-4d2e...

1:11:50Dec 24, 2018

#24 - Shamir's, Sums and Seatings

The boys celebrate a year of the podcast, try to get a hold on some of the weirder polygonal numbers and debrief after big maths jam. Odds a...

1:05:15Dec 15, 2018

#23 - Ants, Arcs and Awkward Patterns

The boys get to the bottom of a neat pattern that suddenly breaks, contort their limbs into strange shapes in the name of Plato and attempt...

55:46Nov 26, 2018

#22 - Pandemics, Padovan’s and Pumpkins

The boys get as spooky as they can with cellular automata, have a maths conversation about maths conversations and can't get past the fact t...

1:05:12Oct 31, 2018

#21 - Torque, Truth and Time Signatures

The boys settle a dicussion about a bike that Alaric has been aching to talk about for a fortnight, Alex finally brings up music and then th...

1:12:26Oct 19, 2018

#20 - Tangles, Twists and Trots

The boys design algorithms to generate puzzles on graphs, spiral out into some polar coordinate calculus and gallop their way through some j...

1:01:21Sep 26, 2018

#19 - Probability, Pubs and Power

The boys delve into some stats and game theory problems, ending with a classic from Conway. Odds and Evenings Twitter - https://twitter.com/...

54:49Sep 9, 2018

#18 - Pads, Plato and Pirates

The boys move seemlessly between high philosophy and pirate jokes in this eclectic episode. Odds and Evenings Twitter - https://twitter.com/...

57:48Aug 15, 2018

#17 - Caps, Cracks and Kaprekar's Constants

The boys try their hands at problems provided by the listeners in today's special episode. Odds and Evenings Twitter - https://twitter.com/O...

56:36Jul 23, 2018

#16 - Algorithms, Adding and Adders

The boys both have problems which involve complicating the process of adding. Also snakes. Odds and Evenings Twitter - https://twitter.com/O...

51:47Jul 9, 2018

#15 - Sofas, Secrets and Sizzling String

The boys both choose to take a medley of problems on the same theme, then solve a puzzle ridiculously quickly. Odds and Evenings Twitter - h...

48:53Jun 25, 2018

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