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 188 Democracy Doesn't Work 11.11.2013

Proof that no election is fair. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 187 Escher Made Real 13.10.2013

3-D models of impossible Escher objects. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 186 Not Quite Infinity 22.09.2013

A number so big that writing it down would fill up the known universe. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 185 The Gullible Ratio 27.08.2013

Is the golden ratio phi as important as people claim? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 184 Infinity Times Infinity 28.07.2013

Does it make any sense to add and multiply infinities? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 183 A Founding Theorem 30.06.2013

Math that directly influenced our Founding Fathers. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 182 Money For Math 16.06.2013

Prize money for provingdisproving famous conjectures. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 181 Rediscovering The Basics 27.05.2013

Are modern Common Core Discovery Math programs destined for failure? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 180 Reading The Tea Leaves For Real 29.04.2013

Discussing Rudy Rucker's idea of using natural processes as a paracomputer. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 179 Bugged By Math 31.03.2013

With a brain the size of a pinhead, how do cicadas know about prime numbers? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 178 Mathematical Immortality 10.03.2013

What do math and physics say about life after death? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 177 Does This Podcast Exist? 29.01.2013

Discussing mathematical proofs that we live in the Matrix. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 176 Perfect Maps 06.01.2013

The various complications in creating 11 scale maps. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 175 Another Great Math Movie 16.12.2012

My review of Sphereland The Movie . (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 174 Too Much Math? 25.11.2012

Are scientists and engineers really afraid of equations? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 173 Digital Roots 28.10.2012

Why adding up digits isn't just for crazy numerologists. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 172 Election Solutions 07.10.2012

The real way to resolve close elections. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 171 Something Euclid Missed 16.09.2012

Try drawing the trisectors of each angle of a triangle, and you're in for a surprise. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 170 Gnarly Gnovels 26.08.2012

Can math give us insights into the quality of a work of fiction? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 169 Isaac Newton, Supercop 05.08.2012

Newton's lesser-known second career in law enforcement. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 168 Twistier Than You Thought 14.07.2012

The strange properties and applications of the Mobius strip. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 167 Basic Bugs 26.06.2012

How hard is it for a simple automaton to act like a real insect? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 166 A New Kind of Decade 28.05.2012

Did Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science really revolutionize scientific inquiry? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 165 Comparative Disadvantage 13.05.2012

How does the Black Swan concept modify the theory of Comparative Advantage? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 164 What Color Is Your Swan? 22.04.2012

How improbable Black Swans affect our lives and society. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

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