Erik Seligman

Math Mutation

Science EN ↓ 289 episodes

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).

Author

Erik Seligman

Category

Science

Podcast website

www.mathmutation.com

Latest episode

Dec 27, 2023

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Episodes

Math Mutation 213 Proof of the Fourth Dimension 25.10.2015

Did Rudolf Steiner prove our minds are four-dimensional 100 years ago? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 212 De-Abstracting Your Life 27.09.2015

How to fight stereotypes and prejudice using indexing and dating (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 211 Saving A Few Million Years 30.08.2015

I shamelessly plug my new Formal Verification book. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 210 Two Plus Two Equals Five 26.07.2015

Is it ever valid to claim that 2+2=5? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 209 Wheels That Aren't Round 21.06.2015

The surprising properties of non-circular curves of constant width. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 208 Your Kids Are Smarter Than You 24.05.2015

The Flynn Effect shows that our collective IQ is increasing with each generation. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 207 Answering All Possible Questions 12.04.2015

A 13th century monk shows us how to discover all life's answers thru combinatorics. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 206 Deceptive Digits 22.03.2015

Do the random processes of the universe prefer some digits over others? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 205 The Converse of a CEO 01.03.2015

Seeking success advice from the successful exposes a mathematical fallacy. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 204 What Happened to Grigori Perelman? 18.01.2015

Update on the strange but brilliant genius who refused the Fields Medal. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 203 Big Numbers Upside Down 27.12.2014

Understanding large numbers thru small probabilities. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 202 Psychochronometry 23.11.2014

Why does time seem to pass faster as we age? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 201 A Heap Of Seagulls 23.10.2014

Can removing a grain of sand from a heap make it a non-heap? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 200 Answering Common Listener Questions 28.09.2014

We celebrate episode 200 by answering the questions about Math Mutation that have been eating away at your brain. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 199 Precaution or Paranoia? 24.08.2014

Why does Nassim Nicholas Taleb want to ban GMOs? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 198 We're All Pasteurized 03.08.2014

How Louis Pasteur discovered that molecules have handedness. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 197 Four Dimensional Greek Warships 06.07.2014

After all the original members left, was the Velvet Underground still the same band? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 196 When 'Is' Isn't 15.06.2014

How replacing English with E prime can make our language more logical and end human strife. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 195 Time-Reversed Worlds 18.05.2014

Are there solar systems out there where time runs backwards? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 194 Voyages Through Animalspace 13.04.2014

Thinking of evolution as a journey through a multidimensional space. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 193 Nonrandom Randomness 23.03.2014

Ipod music shuffling and the Birthday Paradox. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 192 A Logical Language 23.02.2014

Can we replace English with something more mathematically sound? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 191 Liking The Lottery 02.02.2014

Is a government lottery really a tax on stupidity? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 190 Loving Only Numbers 28.12.2013

The strange life of Paul Erdos. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 189 Squaring The Circle 08.12.2013

Why can't we square the circle? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

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