Math Mutation 138 You Can't Fool Bill Gates
The probability paradox of nontransitive dice. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Dec 12, 2010•4 min
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Episodes
Math Mutation 137 A What What?
The lost art of the slide rule. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Nov 21, 2010•5 min
Math Mutation 136 Are Coincidences Just Coincidences?
The same brains that make us vulnerable to New Age silliness are what enable success in science math. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Nov 07, 2010•5 min
Math Mutation 135 Discovering The Third Dimension
Was there a time when Rod Stewart's lyrics would make sense? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Oct 24, 2010•5 min
Math Mutation 134 As Math Goes By
Einstein, the fourth dimension, and Casablanca. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Sep 29, 2010•4 min
Math Mutation 133 Your Five-Dimensional Kitchen
You may find multidimensional geometry on your kitchen shelf. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Sep 06, 2010•5 min
Math Mutation 132 It Must Be True, There's An Equation
Don't believe everything you equate. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Aug 16, 2010•5 min
Math Mutation 131 The Perfect Podcast
Can pure mathematics prove the existence of God? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Aug 01, 2010•3 min
Math Mutation 130 Epsilons And Deltas
Those funny Greek letters that torment calculus students. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jul 19, 2010•5 min
Math Mutation 129 Alien Algebra
How unknown alien cultures can see your Facebook photo. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jun 27, 2010•4 min
Math Mutation 128 A New Numerology
Is there some mystical number that describes you in detail? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jun 17, 2010•4 min
Math Mutation 127 Garden of the Mind
R.I.P. Martin Gardner. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
May 30, 2010•4 min
Math Mutation 126 Tic Tac What?
Tic tac toe, extended into multiple dimensions quantum mechanics. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
May 17, 2010•6 min
Math Mutation 125 Math Or Not Math?
Hofstadter's Le Ton Beau De Marot, and how math relates to translating poetry. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Apr 25, 2010•5 min
Math Mutation 124 Everything Is A Rubber Donut
Topology and the Poincare Conjecture. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Apr 11, 2010•5 min
Math Mutation 123 A Million Dollar Choice
Newcomb's paradox, another challenge to free will. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Mar 28, 2010•4 min
Math Mutation 122 Resolving A Paradox
Does the Grandfather Paradox show time travel is impossible? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Mar 07, 2010•4 min
Math Mutation 121 Why Left Is Right And Right Is Left
Why do mirrors reverse right and left, but not up and down? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Feb 21, 2010•3 min
Math Mutation 120 A Pear-Shaped Planet
What did Columbus really think about the Earth's size and shape? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Feb 07, 2010•4 min
Math Mutation 119 Look Him In The Eye
The colorful biography of Asperger's sufferer John Elder Robison high school dropout, KISS roadie, professional engineer, auto mechanic, and entrepeneur. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jan 20, 2010•4 min
Math Mutation 118 Monkeying Around With Probability
Does basic probability show that life in our universe could not have come about through evolution? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Jan 04, 2010•6 min
Math Mutation 117 A Question Of Assumptions
With different physical constants in the universe, could we still exist? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Dec 20, 2009•5 min
Math Mutation 116 Infinitely Ahead Of His Time
Did Cantor's transfinite numbers advance mathematics and glorify God, or were they a tool of the devil? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Nov 29, 2009•5 min
Math Mutation 115 I Have Lied To You
Can each episode of Math Mutation be correct, while there is an error somewhere in the series? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Nov 15, 2009•5 min
Math Mutation 114 Where Did My Line Go?
How to have your line segment and eat it too. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Nov 01, 2009•4 min
Math Mutation 113 Hippos In My Basement
The magic of the contrapositive. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Oct 19, 2009•3 min
Math Mutation 112 The Genius Who Cheated
Were Gregor Mendel's experimental results a bit too good? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Oct 04, 2009•5 min
Math Mutation 111 A Four-Dimensional House
Can an architect in our 3-D world build a four dimensional house? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Sep 20, 2009•4 min
Math Mutation 110 One Intestinal Worm Per Child
Amdahl's Law, de-worming, and the One Laptop Per Child initiative. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Sep 06, 2009•5 min
Math Mutation 109 Back To The Hall
The Monty Hall Paradox revisited. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
Aug 23, 2009•4 min
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