Math Mutation 198 We're All Pasteurized
How Louis Pasteur discovered that molecules have handedness. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Aug 03, 2014•5 min
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Episodes
Math Mutation 197 Four Dimensional Greek Warships
After all the original members left, was the Velvet Underground still the same band? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jul 06, 2014•5 min
Math Mutation 196 When 'Is' Isn't
How replacing English with E prime can make our language more logical and end human strife. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jun 15, 2014•6 min
Math Mutation 195 Time-Reversed Worlds
Are there solar systems out there where time runs backwards? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
May 18, 2014•5 min
Math Mutation 194 Voyages Through Animalspace
Thinking of evolution as a journey through a multidimensional space. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Apr 13, 2014•6 min
Math Mutation 193 Nonrandom Randomness
Ipod music shuffling and the Birthday Paradox. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Mar 23, 2014•6 min
Math Mutation 192 A Logical Language
Can we replace English with something more mathematically sound? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Feb 23, 2014•7 min
Math Mutation 191 Liking The Lottery
Is a government lottery really a tax on stupidity? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Feb 02, 2014•5 min
Math Mutation 190 Loving Only Numbers
The strange life of Paul Erdos. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Dec 28, 2013•7 min
Math Mutation 189 Squaring The Circle
Why can't we square the circle? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Dec 08, 2013•7 min
Math Mutation 188 Democracy Doesn't Work
Proof that no election is fair. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Nov 11, 2013•6 min
Math Mutation 187 Escher Made Real
3-D models of impossible Escher objects. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Oct 13, 2013•4 min
Math Mutation 186 Not Quite Infinity
A number so big that writing it down would fill up the known universe. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Sep 22, 2013•5 min
Math Mutation 185 The Gullible Ratio
Is the golden ratio phi as important as people claim? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Aug 27, 2013•7 min
Math Mutation 184 Infinity Times Infinity
Does it make any sense to add and multiply infinities? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jul 28, 2013•7 min
Math Mutation 183 A Founding Theorem
Math that directly influenced our Founding Fathers. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jun 30, 2013•6 min
Math Mutation 182 Money For Math
Prize money for provingdisproving famous conjectures. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jun 16, 2013•5 min
Math Mutation 181 Rediscovering The Basics
Are modern Common Core Discovery Math programs destined for failure? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
May 27, 2013•7 min
Math Mutation 180 Reading The Tea Leaves For Real
Discussing Rudy Rucker's idea of using natural processes as a paracomputer. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Apr 29, 2013•5 min
Math Mutation 179 Bugged By Math
With a brain the size of a pinhead, how do cicadas know about prime numbers? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Mar 31, 2013•5 min
Math Mutation 178 Mathematical Immortality
What do math and physics say about life after death? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Mar 10, 2013•6 min
Math Mutation 177 Does This Podcast Exist?
Discussing mathematical proofs that we live in the Matrix. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jan 29, 2013•5 min
Math Mutation 176 Perfect Maps
The various complications in creating 11 scale maps. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jan 06, 2013•5 min
Math Mutation 175 Another Great Math Movie
My review of Sphereland The Movie . (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Dec 16, 2012•6 min
Math Mutation 174 Too Much Math?
Are scientists and engineers really afraid of equations? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Nov 25, 2012•6 min
Math Mutation 173 Digital Roots
Why adding up digits isn't just for crazy numerologists. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Oct 28, 2012•5 min
Math Mutation 172 Election Solutions
The real way to resolve close elections. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Oct 07, 2012•8 min
Math Mutation 171 Something Euclid Missed
Try drawing the trisectors of each angle of a triangle, and you're in for a surprise. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Sep 16, 2012•5 min
Math Mutation 170 Gnarly Gnovels
Can math give us insights into the quality of a work of fiction? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Aug 26, 2012•6 min
Math Mutation 169 Isaac Newton, Supercop
Newton's lesser-known second career in law enforcement. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Aug 05, 2012•6 min
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