Math Mutation

Math Mutation 238: Programming Your Donkey 18.02.2018 6:12 ↓

Does the "Buridan's Ass" paradox prove the existence of free will? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 237: A Skewed Perspective 15.01.2018 3:45 ↓

The strange relativistic phenomenon of Terrell Rotation. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 236: A Stubborn Tortoise 20.12.2017 3:58 ↓

Why do we believe basic logical arguments? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 235: Syntax Wars 19.11.2017 4:52 ↓

Do human languages really need rules of syntax? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 234: Le Grand K 16.10.2017 5:04 ↓

The suprisingly primitive method used for standardizing the kilogram. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 233: A Totalitarian Theorem 28.08.2017 5:11 ↓

How the Pythagorean Theorem influenced Hobbes' Leviathan. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 232: Overcooked Bacon 29.07.2017 6:14 ↓

Is there merit to the "Six Degrees of Separation" concept? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 231: A New Dimension in Housing 01.07.2017 6:33 ↓

Buckminster Fuller's first four-dimensional house. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 230: Just Say The Dog Ate It 27.05.2017 3:50 ↓

Should professors assign famous unsolved problems as homework? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 229: When Numbers Change 26.03.2017 5:24 ↓

If you test a conjecture with values up to 60 digits, can you assume it will be true forever? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 228: So Easy It's Hard 19.02.2017 5:05 ↓

Exploring the "Collatz Conjecture", which is simple enough to explain to a child, but has yet to be proven. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 227: Heads In The Clouds 29.01.2017 6:03 ↓

Gulliver's lesser known voyage to Laputa, which satirized out-of-touch mathematicians. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 226: See You Next Year 29.12.2016 4:58 ↓

If a friend wants to meet "a year from Monday", when exactly is that? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 225: A Crazy Kind of Computer 29.11.2016 6:28 ↓

How stochastic computing cleverly utilizes the laws of probability. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 224: Did America Fail a Math Test? 31.10.2016 4:21 ↓

Did the Third Pound Burger fail because people thought it was too small? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 223: Think With Both Your Brains 26.09.2016 6:01 ↓

Harness the power of your "R-mode" for problem solving. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 222: Fractal Expressionism 22.08.2016 5:55 ↓

Are abstract expressionist paintings really fractals? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 221: The Trouble With Glass Beads 30.06.2016 7:17 ↓

Are modern physicists just playing a "glass bead game"? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 220: Cognitive BSes 04.06.2016 5:29 ↓

Are the "Cognitive Biases" reallly flaws in the human mind? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 218: Itching for the I Ching 27.03.2016 6:26 ↓

John Cage's music and the mathematics of the I Ching. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 219: A Portal to the Past 27.03.2016 6:32 ↓

Can you travel in time using the International Dateline? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 217: The Oxford Calculators 24.02.2016 5:30 ↓

Discussing a lesser-known group of 14th-century philosophers who laid the foundations for Galileo. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 216: Bowie Meets Escher 03.02.2016 5:30 ↓

David Bowie was once in a live Escher lithograph. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 215: It's Not A Conspiracy 23.12.2015 5:59 ↓

Could someone invent a device that alters the laws of probability? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 214: In Search of the Ultimate Math Game 29.11.2015 5:46 ↓

Are there any good educational math games out for smartphones/tablets? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)