Math Mutation

Math Mutation 153 Cracking Pythagoras

Are people who give Pythagoras credit for his theorem really cracked? (Send feeback to...

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Math Mutation 152 Why The Hex?

Are bees smarter than math professors? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

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Math Mutation 151 Forgotten Knowledge

Will future generations forget basic math? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

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Math Mutation 150 A Podcast About Nothing

A non-zero number of factoids about zero. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

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Math Mutation 149 Robot Planet

Will reproducing robots consume the Earth? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

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Math Mutation 148 Your Size In Space And Time

How do you compare to the universe as a whole? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

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Math Mutation 147 Elemental Obsession

Collecting the basic elements of our universe. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

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Math Mutation 146 Mutating Up The Corporate Ladder

Can knowledge of fractals be useful in a day-to-day business setting? (Send feeback to...

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Math Mutation 145 Why Johnny Couldn't Add

How the New Math confused a decade's worth of students and teachers. (Send feeback to...

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Math Mutation 144 Is There A Hippopotamus In This Podcast?

Trying to make sense of Russell's conversation with Wittgenstein. (Send feeback to...

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Math Mutation 143 The Math Of Mutations

How D'Arcy Thompson united mathematics and the study of evolution. (Send feeback to...

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Math Mutation 142 Hippasus's Revenge

How the basis of modern music shifted from whole to irrational numbers. (Send feeback to...

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Math Mutation 141 The Right Way To Procrastinate

Review of Logicomix, a graphic novel on the life of Bertrand Russell. (Send feeback to...

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Math Mutation 140 Does The House Always Win?

How MIT math geeks won millions in Vegas. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

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Math Mutation 139 A Christmas Surprise

Does knowing that a surprise will be a surprise prevent the surprise? (Send feeback to...

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Math Mutation 138 You Can't Fool Bill Gates

The probability paradox of nontransitive dice. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

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Math Mutation 137 A What What?

The lost art of the slide rule. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

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Math Mutation 136 Are Coincidences Just Coincidences?

The same brains that make us vulnerable to New Age silliness are what enable success in science...

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Math Mutation 135 Discovering The Third Dimension

Was there a time when Rod Stewart's lyrics would make sense? (Send feeback to...

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Math Mutation 134 As Math Goes By

Einstein, the fourth dimension, and Casablanca. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

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