Math Mutation

Math Mutation 27 How Many Crayons Do You Need?

Surprisingly, any map can be filled in with just four colors. (Send feeback to...

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Math Mutation 26 That Krazy Kepler

Discussing one of Johannes Kepler's lesser known, and sillier, theories. (Send feeback to...

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Math Mutation 25 Everything Is a Number

How Godel twisted statements about numbers into statements about statements. (Send feeback to...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Math Mutation 16 Doodling

What kind of pictures do you draw when your attention wanders? (Send feeback to...

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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...

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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...

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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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