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Math Mutation

Erik Seligman•www.mathmutation.com

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 email erik@mathmutation.com).

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Episodes

Math Mutation 18 Squash Those Dice

Why are there exactly five platonic solids? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

May 05, 2007•4 min

Math Mutation 17 Visitors From The Next Dimension

What would it look like if a four-dimensional creature dropped by for a visit? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Apr 28, 2007•3 min

Math Mutation 16 Doodling

What kind of pictures do you draw when your attention wanders? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Apr 21, 2007•3 min

Math Mutation 15 A Pretty Big Library

We discuss Borges' Library of Babel, which contains every possible book. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Apr 14, 2007•4 min

Math Mutation 14 Exponentials for Easter

Bunny math. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Apr 07, 2007•3 min

Math Mutation 13 Another Problem for the Millenium

What is the P=NP problem? (Send feeback to erik@erikseligman.com)

Mar 31, 2007•5 min

Math Mutation 12 Refusing the Nobel Prize

The bizarre human drama surrounding the proof of the Poincare Conjecture. (Send feeback to erik@erikseligman.com)

Mar 24, 2007•4 min

Math Mutation 11 A Movie You Should See

Review of Flatland The Film.

Mar 17, 2007•4 min

Math Mutation 10 The Rain Man's Secret

How autistic savants perform their miracles. (Send feeback to erik@erikseligman.com)

Mar 10, 2007•3 min

Math Mutation 9 The World As A Computer

Cellular Automata and the Game of Life

Mar 03, 2007•4 min

Math Mutation 8 Flattening The Earth

Building a house in two dimensions.

Feb 24, 2007•3 min

Math Mutation 7 I Want My Molecule!

How much medicine is really in a homeopathic remedy?

Feb 15, 2007•3 min

Math Mutation 6 What Color Is This Podcast?

Some people claim to see every number as a different color. Should we believe them?

Feb 13, 2007•2 min

Math Mutation 5 Too Infinite For Me

All infinities are not created equal.

Feb 10, 2007•3 min

Math Mutation 4 Flat People Give Me Indigestion

Can two-dimensional intestines exist?

Feb 04, 2007•2 min

Math Mutation 3 The Monty Hall Paradox

Mathematics of game shows.

Feb 04, 2007•2 min

Math Mutation 2 Homer's Last Theorem

The Simpsons vs Princeton University.

Feb 04, 2007•2 min

Math Mutation 1 City of Mutants

Count your fingers. Are you sure the number is right?

Feb 04, 2007•2 min

Math Mutation 0 Infinite Reasons to Listen

A hotel with an infinite number of rooms-- does it always have a vacancy?

Feb 04, 2007•2 min

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