Math Mutation 47 An Unusual Lottery
A strange lottery run by Douglas Hofstadter in the early 1980s, with interesting implications for...
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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....
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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?...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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Math Mutation 31 Putting The Multiverse To Work
Does quantum computing prove the existence of parallel universes? (Send feeback to...
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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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