Math Mutation Podcast

Math Mutation Podcast

Host: Erik Seligman

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. To listen, just click on one of the links below to download the MP3 file, or subscribe to the RSS Feed to receive regular updates.

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Shows, Notes, and References

Math Mutation 132: It Must Be True, There's An Equation

Math Mutation 131: The Perfect Podcast

Math Mutation 130: Epsilons And Deltas

Math Mutation 129: Alien Algebra

Math Mutation 128: A New Numerology

Math Mutation 127: Garden of the Mind

Math Mutation 126: Tic Tac What?

Math Mutation 125: Math Or Not Math?

Math Mutation 124: Everything Is A Rubber Donut

Math Mutation 123: A Million Dollar Choice

Math Mutation 122: Resolving A Paradox

Math Mutation 121: Why Left Is Right And Right Is Left

Math Mutation 120: A Pear-Shaped Planet

Math Mutation 119: Look Him In The Eye

Math Mutation 118: Monkeying Around With Probability

Math Mutation 117: A Question Of Assumptions

Math Mutation 116: Infinitely Ahead Of His Time

Math Mutation 115: I Have Lied To You

Math Mutation 114: Where Did My Line Go?

Math Mutation 113: Hippos In My Basement

Math Mutation 112: The Genius Who Cheated

Math Mutation 111: A Four-Dimensional House

Math Mutation 110: One Intestinal Worm Per Child

Math Mutation 109: Back To The Hall

Math Mutation 108: Where Am I?

Math Mutation 107: A Twisted Take on Turing

Math Mutation 106: Pre-Newton Nonsense

Math Mutation 105: A Universe Made Of Math

Math Mutation 104: Fortunes, Debts, Ursa Major, and Cow Urine

Math Mutation 103: Missed It By That Much

Math Mutation 102: A Brush With Evil

Math Mutation 101: Don't Panic

Math Mutation 100: 100th Episode Spectacular

Math Mutation 99: The Uninhibited Brain

Math Mutation 98: Math Day Madness

Math Mutation 97: Savants Are People Too

Math Mutation 96: Tally Folly

Math Mutation 95: Happy e Day!

Math Mutation 94: Yes, You Can Cross The Road

Math Mutation 93: A Math Teacher To Remember

Math Mutation 92: Hollow Days

Math Mutation 91: Fractals in the Hat

Math Mutation 90: The Long Now

Math Mutation 89: Improbable Probabilities

Math Mutation 88: More Than A Cartoon Cat

Math Mutation 87: Unlistenable But Fun

Math Mutation 86: The Shape of the Universe

Math Mutation 85: Florence Nightingale, Math Geek

Math Mutation 84: How To Bankrupt Your Boss And Get Rich

Math Mutation 83: Candide's Calculus

Math Mutation 82: How Not To Decorate Your Bathroom

Math Mutation 81: A Billion Frenchmen Can Be Wrong

Math Mutation 80: Possible-Worlds Accounting

Math Mutation 79: Chinese Pen Pals

Math Mutation 78: And You Thought Those Mice Were Smart

Math Mutation 77: Are You Smarter Than A Mouse?

Math Mutation 76: Grue and Bleen

Math Mutation 75: Giving You The Fingers

Math Mutation 74: A Competitor For Flatland

Math Mutation 73: The Future That Never Arrived

Math Mutation 72: Shuttle Butt

Math Mutation 71: What Goes Around, Comes Around

Math Mutation 70: Number Nonsense

Math Mutation 69: Interesting Numbers

Math Mutation 68: The Bogus Bang?

Math Mutation 67: Chaos

Math Mutation 66: Fuzzy Dice

Math Mutation 65: Sacrificing A Goat To Calculus

Math Mutation 64: Exponents Squared

Math Mutation 63: Turning Around In Time

Math Mutation 62: Names Of God

Math Mutation 61: Observing The Universe

Math Mutation 60: Drop That Number Or We'll Shoot

Math Mutation 59: Fun With Infinities

Math Mutation 58: On Average, Things Are Average

Math Mutation 57: Really Old Math

Math Mutation 56: My Brain Hurts

Math Mutation 55: The Painter's Paradox

Math Mutation 54: Mozart Rolls The Dice

Math Mutation 53: Is Flatland Doomed?

Math Mutation 52: Sparklines

Math Mutation 51: Why The Week?

Math Mutation 50: A True Holiday Celebration

Math Mutation 49: What Is Math Anyway?

Math Mutation 48: Computers On The Brain

Math Mutation 47: An Unusual Lottery

Math Mutation 46: The World's Simplest Computer

Math Mutation 45: The Aliens Among Us

Math Mutation 44: Friends In Mathematical Places

Math Mutation 43: A Theorem Made Real

Math Mutation 42: Solving Burma's Problems

Math Mutation 41: Action, Drama, and Geometry Lessons

Math Mutation 40: Death By Theorem

Math Mutation 39: A Statistical Legend

Math Mutation 38: 11-Dimensional Spaghetti Monsters

Math Mutation 37: Baby Math

Math Mutation 36: Christmas in August

Math Mutation 35: One Messed-Up Triangle

Math Mutation 34: Not Over Till It's Over

Math Mutation 33: Watch Zeno Make Russia Disappear

Math Mutation 32: How Polish Math Saved Europe

Math Mutation 31: Putting The Multiverse To Work

Math Mutation 30: Will The Real Fourth Dimension Please Stand Up

Math Mutation 29: What a Planet Sounds Like

Math Mutation 28: Someone Knocked My 8 Over

Math Mutation 27: How Many Crayons Do You Need?

Math Mutation 26: That Krazy Kepler

Math Mutation 25: Everything Is A Number

Math Mutation 24: A Mathematical Nuclear Bomb

Math Mutation 23: Stupid Number Tricks

Math Mutation 22: Between The Dimensions

Math Mutation 21: Infinite Perimeter, Finite Area

Math Mutation 20: The Round Road to Damnation

Math Mutation 19: Throwing Darts At Your Problems

Math Mutation 18: Squash Those Dice

Math Mutation 17: Visitors From The Next Dimension

Math Mutation 16: Doodling

Math Mutation 15: A Pretty Big Library

Math Mutation 14: Exponentials for Easter

Math Mutation 13: Another Problem For The Millenium

Math Mutation 12: Refusing the Nobel Prize

Math Mutation 11: A Movie You Should See

Math Mutation 10: The Rain Man's Secret

Math Mutation 9: The World As A Computer

Math Mutation 8: Flattening The Earth

Math Mutation 7: I Want My Molecule!

Yes, before you send me an angry email, I realize I made some approximation errors due to the difference between mass and volume, and between the medicine's and water's properties. But the numbers are so enormous, the essential point remains.

Math Mutation 6: What Color Is This Podcast?

Math Mutation 5: Too Infinite For me

Math Mutation 4: Flat People Give Me Indigestion

Math Mutation 3: The Monty Hall Paradox

Math Mutation 2: Homer's Last Theorem

Math Mutation 1: City of Mutants

Math Mutation 0: Infinite Reasons to Listen

Feel free to email me if you have any questions. eseligma@aracnet.com