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Math Mutation 21 Infinite Perimeter, Finite Area | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:03:20

Describing the Koch Snowflake, a classic example of a fractal curve. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 20 The Round Road To Damnation | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:03:15

Do religious Jews and Christians really believe pi=3? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 19 Throwing Darts At Your Problems | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:03:36

The power of randomized algorithms. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 18 Squash Those Dice | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:03:57

Why are there exactly five platonic solids? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 17 Visitors From The Next Dimension | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:03:15

What would it look like if a four-dimensional creature dropped by for a visit? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 16 Doodling | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:48

What kind of pictures do you draw when your attention wanders? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 15 A Pretty Big Library | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:03:32

We discuss Borges' Library of Babel, which contains every possible book. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 14 Exponentials for Easter | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:03:11

Bunny math. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 13 Another Problem for the Millenium | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:20

What is the P=NP problem? (Send feeback to eseligma@aracnet.com)

Math Mutation 12 Refusing the Nobel Prize | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:03:54

The bizarre human drama surrounding the proof of the Poincare Conjecture. (Send feeback to eseligma@aracnet.com)

Math Mutation 11 A Movie You Should See | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:05

Review of Flatland The Film.

Math Mutation 10 The Rain Man's Secret | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:03:19

How autistic savants perform their miracles. (Send feeback to eseligma@aracnet.com)

Math Mutation 9 The World As A Computer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:21

Cellular Automata and the Game of Life

Math Mutation 8 Flattening The Earth | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:45

Building a house in two dimensions.

Math Mutation 7 I Want My Molecule! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:45

How much medicine is really in a homeopathic remedy?

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