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Math Mutation is a short podcast for people of all ages, where we explore fun, interesting, or just plain wierd corners of mathematics that you probably didn't hear in school.

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Math Mutation Episodes -

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)
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Math Mutation 114 Where Did My Line Go?
How to have your line segment and eat it too. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 113 Hippos In My Basement
The magic of the contrapositive. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 112 The Genius Who Cheated
Were Gregor Mendel's experimental results a bit too good? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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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)
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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)
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Math Mutation 109 Back To The Hall
The Monty Hall Paradox revisited. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 108 Where Am I?
Before GPS, how could you know your longitude? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 107 A Twisted Take on Turing
Changing a test of artificiall intelligence into one of natural nonintelligence. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 106 Pre-Newton Nonsense
The struggle for a theory of physics that would enable cats to jump onto chandeliers. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 105 A Universe Made of Math
Are we all simply mathematical objects? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 104 Fortunes, Debts, Ursa Major, and Cow Urine
Looking at the contributions of the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 103 Missed It By That Much
Elections and the Law of Large Numbers. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 102 A Brush With Evil
Exploring the pentagram. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 101 Don't Panic
If you test positive for a rare disease, should you be worried? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 100 100th Episode Spectacular
Why Math Mutation exists, winners of the Math Day Madness contest, and a correction. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 99 The Uninihibited Brain
Daniel Tammet's view of the root cause of his savant abilities. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 98 Math Day Madness
After E Day and Pi Day, how many other math-related holidays are there? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 97 Savants Are People Too
Can Rain Men really instantly count 100 fallen matches? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 96 Tally Folly
English tally sticks, and how they destroyed Parliament. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 95 Happy e Day!
Celebrating the constant 'e'. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 94 Yes, You Can Cross The Road
Why Zeno didn't prove that motion is impossible. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 93 A Math Teacher To Remember
Mathermatics and the life of Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 92 Hollow Days
The ill-omened days at the end of the year. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 91 Fractals in the Hat
How Dr. Seuss's 'The Cat In The Hat Comes Back' introduces fractals. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 90 The Long Now
What are we leaving behind for our descendants in the year 12000? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 89 Improbable Probabilities
Do a few statistically significant studies prove a strange phenomenon is true? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 88 More Than A Cartoon Cat
A mathematical contribution from President James Garfield. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 87 Unlistenable But Fun
The bizarre mathematical methods John Cage used to produce some of his music. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 86 The Shape of the Universe
Was Homer Simpson's theory of a donut-shaped universe correct? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 85 Florence Nightingale, Math Geek
The connections between mathematics and the founding of modern nursing. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 84 How To Bankrupt Your Boss And Get Rich
If a stock has a 90% chance of going up, should you buy it? Maybe not! (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 83 Candide's Calculus
The surprising connection between mathematics and Voltaire's satirical novel. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 82 How Not To Decorate Your Bathroom
Can you tile your bathroom floor without ever repeating the pattern? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 81 A Billion Frenchmen Can Be Wrong
Why does the word billion sometimes mean 10 to the 9th, and other times mean 10 to the 12th? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 80 Possible-Worlds Accounting
You need to think about more than one universe when judging risky decisions. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 79 Chinese Pen Pals
Does the Chinese Room Paradox show that artificial intelligence is impossible? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 78 And You Thought Those Mice Were Smart
If mice can do probability theory, why can't worms do calculus? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 77 Are You Smarter Than A Mouse?
According to some experiments, mice can be better at math than humans. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 76 Grue and Bleen
How do you know your lawn is green, and not bleen? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 75 Giving You The Fingers
Can you count up to 589,824 on your fingers? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 74 A Competitor for Flatland
Charles H. Hinton's 'realistic' two-dimensional world of Astria. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 73 The Future That Never Arrived
What's the deal with geodesic domes? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 72 Shuttle Butt
Are Space Shuttle parts really based on the width of an ancient Roman horse's rear end? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 71 What Goes Around, Comes Around
On a number line, are positive and negative infinity really the same point? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 70 Number Nonsense
How calculator-based education almost cost me a hamburger. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 69 Interesting Numbers
The unusual story of the Indian mathematician Ramanujan. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 68 The Bogus Bang?
A recent theory may replace the Big Bang with a collision of multidimensional membranes. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 67 Chaos
What appears to be random is not always random. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 66 Fuzzy Dice
What is the connection between dice and driving? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 65 Sacrificing a Goat To Calculus
Is the line between math and religion always clear-cut? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 64 Exponents Squared
What comes next in this sequence addition, multiplication, exponentiation, ...? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 63 Turning Around In Time
Can you make a U-turn in the 4th dimension? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 62 Names of God
In memory of Arthur C. Clarke. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 61 Observing The Universe
Calculating what we can see in the universe isn't as simple as counting light-years. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 60 Drop That Number Or We'll Shoot
Sometimes, math can be illegal. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 59 Fun With Infinities
Can we draw infinity on a number line? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 58 On Average, Things Are Average
The Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx explained. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 57 Really Old Math
How ancient Egyptian math may be the source of an 18th-century poem. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 56 My Brain Hurts
If you separate your brain into indiividual neurons, is it still a brain? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 55 The Painter's Paradox
We describe a figure whose surface can never be painted, though its interior can be filled using a finite volume of paint, (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 54 Mozart Rolls The Dice
The randomly-created-music fad of the late 18th century. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 53 Is Flatland Doomed?
How would chemistry and physics change in a two-dimensional universe? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 52 Sparklines
Tiny graphs that look like words of text can be surprisingly useful. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 51 Why The Week?
What's so special about the number 7 in our calendar? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 50 A True Holiday Celebration
Breathe in an actual molecule shared with Baby Jesus. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 49 What Is Math Anyway?
After 50 episodes, I finally figure out what I'm talking about. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 48 Computers On The Brain
Some engineers have their brains cross-wired to see circuit schematic AND, OR, and NOT gates as particular colors. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 47 An Unusual Lottery
A strange lottery run by Douglas Hofstadter in the early 1980s, with interesting implications for human society. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 46 The World's Simplest Computer
A new theorem by a British undergraduate has just established the simplest possible computer. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 45 The Aliens Among Us
Can we calcuate the number of intelligent life forms in our galaxy with one simple equation? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 44 Friends in Mathematical Places
Story of a 19th-century Frenchwoman who pretended to be male for her career in mathematics, and how she revealed her identity to save Gauss. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 43 A Theorem Made Real
Strangely enough, pure math can tell us interesting things about global weather patterns. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 42 Solving Burma's Problems
The Burmese military junta's numerological failures. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 41: Action, Drama, and Geometry Lessons
Review of Flatland The Movie (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 40 Death By Theorem
How do we know that irrational numbers exist? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 39 A Statistical Legend
The surprising story of how George Dantzig, the father of linear programming, earned his Ph.D. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 38 11-Dimensional Spaghetti Monsters
Where are the missing dimensions of string theory? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 37 Baby Math
Can 6-month old babies do basic subtraction? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 36 Christmas in August
How the Romans coped with the odd ratios of the day, the lunar cycle, and the solar cycle. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 35 One Messed-Up Triangle
How non-Euclidean geometry lets you draw a triangle with three right angles. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 34 Not Over Till It's Over
Has the riddle of Fermat's Last Theorem truly been solved? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 33 Watch Zeno Make Russia Disappear
Infinite series and sub-replacement fertility. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 32 How Polish Math Saved Europe
Today we talk about an early Polish success in cracking the Enigma coding machine. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 31 Putting The Multiverse To Work
Does quantum computing prove the existence of parallel universes? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 30 Will The Real Fourth Dimension Please Stand Up
Is Time really a dimension? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 29 What A Planet Sounds Like
The Music of the Spheres, taken literally. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 28 Someone Knocked My 8 Over
Where does that weird infinity symbol come from? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 27 How Many Crayons Do You Need?
Surprisingly, any map can be filled in with just four colors. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 26 That Krazy Kepler
Discussing one of Johannes Kepler's lesser known, and sillier, theories. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 25 Everything Is a Number
How Godel twisted statements about numbers into statements about statements. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 24 A Mathematical Nuclear Bomb
How Godel's Incompleteness Theorem blew away hopes of a complete system of mathematics. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 23 Stupid Number Tricks
How to look like a math genius, even if you're not. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 22 Between The Dimensions
More on fractals, and why they are considered to have fractional dimensions. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 21 Infinite Perimeter, Finite Area
Describing the Koch Snowflake, a classic example of a fractal curve. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 20 The Round Road To Damnation
Do religious Jews and Christians really believe pi=3? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 19 Throwing Darts At Your Problems
The power of randomized algorithms. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 18 Squash Those Dice
Why are there exactly five platonic solids? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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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)
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Math Mutation 16 Doodling
What kind of pictures do you draw when your attention wanders? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 15 A Pretty Big Library
We discuss Borges' Library of Babel, which contains every possible book. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 14 Exponentials for Easter
Bunny math. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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Math Mutation 13 Another Problem for the Millenium
What is the P=NP problem? (Send feeback to eseligma@aracnet.com)
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Math Mutation 12 Refusing the Nobel Prize
The bizarre human drama surrounding the proof of the Poincare Conjecture. (Send feeback to eseligma@aracnet.com)
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Math Mutation 11 A Movie You Should See
Review of Flatland The Film.
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Math Mutation 10 The Rain Man's Secret
How autistic savants perform their miracles. (Send feeback to eseligma@aracnet.com)
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Math Mutation 9 The World As A Computer
Cellular Automata and the Game of Life
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Math Mutation 8 Flattening The Earth
Building a house in two dimensions.
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Math Mutation 7 I Want My Molecule!
How much medicine is really in a homeopathic remedy?
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Math Mutation 6 What Color Is This Podcast?
Some people claim to see every number as a different color. Should we believe them?
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Math Mutation 5 Too Infinite For Me
All infinities are not created equal.
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Math Mutation 4 Flat People Give Me Indigestion
Can two-dimensional intestines exist?
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Math Mutation 3 The Monty Hall Paradox
Mathematics of game shows.
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Math Mutation 2 Homer's Last Theorem
The Simpsons vs Princeton University.
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Math Mutation 1 City of Mutants
Count your fingers. Are you sure the number is right?
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Math Mutation 0 Infinite Reasons to Listen
A hotel with an infinite number of rooms-- does it always have a vacancy?
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