Math Mutation 168 Twistier Than You Thought
The strange properties and applications of the Mobius strip. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jul 14, 2012•5 min
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Episodes
Math Mutation 167 Basic Bugs
How hard is it for a simple automaton to act like a real insect? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jun 26, 2012•5 min
Math Mutation 166 A New Kind of Decade
Did Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science really revolutionize scientific inquiry? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
May 28, 2012•6 min
Math Mutation 165 Comparative Disadvantage
How does the Black Swan concept modify the theory of Comparative Advantage? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
May 13, 2012•5 min
Math Mutation 164 What Color Is Your Swan?
How improbable Black Swans affect our lives and society. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Apr 22, 2012•5 min
Math Mutation 163 Why Statisticians Stink At Statistics
When estimating probabilities, we are biologically wired to give the wrong answer. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Apr 01, 2012•5 min
Math Mutation 162 The Mathematician Who Wasn't There
The strange tale of Nicholas Bourbaki. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Mar 14, 2012•5 min
Math Mutation 161 The Numbers Of Love
How love was defined by Pythagoras. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Feb 19, 2012•6 min
Math Mutation 160 The Boids And Bees Of Leadership
What algorithms do bees use to fly in swarms? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jan 24, 2012•5 min
Math Mutation 159 Booms And Busts
Is it always natural to attain an equilibrium? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jan 02, 2012•6 min
Math Mutation 158 That's How We Do It In Government
Why government-reported statistics are bogus. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Dec 18, 2011•3 min
Math Mutation 157 Infinite Infinities
How much more infinite can you get? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Nov 29, 2011•4 min
Math Mutation 156 The Ultimate Answer
Reflections upon turning 42. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Nov 15, 2011•4 min
Math Mutation 155 Crazy Dice
Can a die be fair without being a Platonic solid? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Oct 23, 2011•5 min
Math Mutation 154 A New Perspective On Perspective
Is perspective in art just a cultural artifact? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Oct 09, 2011•6 min
Math Mutation 153 Cracking Pythagoras
Are people who give Pythagoras credit for his theorem really cracked? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Sep 25, 2011•4 min
Math Mutation 152 Why The Hex?
Are bees smarter than math professors? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Sep 04, 2011•5 min
Math Mutation 151 Forgotten Knowledge
Will future generations forget basic math? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Aug 14, 2011•4 min
Math Mutation 150 A Podcast About Nothing
A non-zero number of factoids about zero. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jul 24, 2011•6 min
Math Mutation 149 Robot Planet
Will reproducing robots consume the Earth? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jun 28, 2011•6 min
Math Mutation 148 Your Size In Space And Time
How do you compare to the universe as a whole? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jun 14, 2011•3 min
Math Mutation 147 Elemental Obsession
Collecting the basic elements of our universe. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
May 27, 2011•5 min
Math Mutation 146 Mutating Up The Corporate Ladder
Can knowledge of fractals be useful in a day-to-day business setting? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
May 08, 2011•5 min
Math Mutation 145 Why Johnny Couldn't Add
How the New Math confused a decade's worth of students and teachers. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Apr 16, 2011•6 min
Math Mutation 144 Is There A Hippopotamus In This Podcast?
Trying to make sense of Russell's conversation with Wittgenstein. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Mar 28, 2011•5 min
Math Mutation 143 The Math Of Mutations
How D'Arcy Thompson united mathematics and the study of evolution. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Mar 07, 2011•4 min
Math Mutation 142 Hippasus's Revenge
How the basis of modern music shifted from whole to irrational numbers. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Feb 20, 2011•5 min
Math Mutation 141 The Right Way To Procrastinate
Review of Logicomix, a graphic novel on the life of Bertrand Russell. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Feb 06, 2011•6 min
Math Mutation 140 Does The House Always Win?
How MIT math geeks won millions in Vegas. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jan 12, 2011•6 min
Math Mutation 139 A Christmas Surprise
Does knowing that a surprise will be a surprise prevent the surprise? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Dec 26, 2010•4 min
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