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Number Gossip
March 9, 2010 - 9:35 PM
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Everyone has been posting abouit this but I have to put my 2 cents in the ring. Number Gossip is awesome. That is it, really my whole 2 cents. It is simply an awesome site that gives awesome info about any integer between 0 and 9999. Try it out, have fun with it. We just [...]
Mathematical Opionator
March 8, 2010 - 8:22 AM
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Former guest on Strongly Connected Components Steven Strogatz has been having a rather good year. Not only did he appear on our podcast, he told part of the story from his new book The Calculus of Friendship, just finished it myself a couple of weeks ago it is a great read you should go and [...]
Episode 37: Is This the End?
March 7, 2010 - 6:30 PM
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Samuel Hansen hosts, with regrets, yet another episode of Combinations and Permutations, this time about Polyhedra.
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Episode 12: Brian Conrey
March 2, 2010 - 10:22 AM
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For today’s episode of Strongly Connected Components Samuel Hansen called up director of the American Institute of Mathematics Brian Conrey. Together they talked about the AIM library, whymath circles and square mathematicians are a good thing, and just what the math castle is. To find out more about Brian Conrey visit his website and to find out more about AIM just [...]
Combinations and Permutations Episode 36: Master of Us All
February 25, 2010 - 9:38 AM
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On this weeks podcast Samuel Hansen, Juan Mariscal, Anthony Sellari, and Nathan Rowe get together to discuss their master: Euler.
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History of Mathematics Journal: 4
February 17, 2010 - 9:40 AM
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Early on this past week Professor Bhatnagar brought up the idea of mathematical funding, specifically how would any of us choose to fund mathematics if we were the government. The government of the United States of America currently funds mathematics through two main channels, the national Science Foundation and the National Security Agency, and [...]
Combinations and Permutations Episode 35: Despotisms BAD
February 11, 2010 - 10:00 AM
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Samuel Hansen finally managed to get three other people, Brandon Metz, Cody Palmer, and Juan Mariscal, together in a room to talk about mathematics. In another episode that takes place in thought experiment world, they talk about mathematics and despotisms.
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Strongly Connected Components Episode 11: Joseph Gallian
February 9, 2010 - 10:31 PM
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Joseph Gallian is a Mathematics Professor at the university of Minnesota-Duluth. Samuel Hanse spoke with him at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Francisco about his text book Contemporary Abstract Algebra, the mathematics movie Hard Problems he executive produced, how he cracked the Driver’s License code, and more about the Beatles than you could think would be on a [...]
History of Mathematics Journal: 3
February 7, 2010 - 10:20 PM
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We started the week off talking about paradigm shifts. Paradigm shift, according to Wikipedia, was a term that was first used by Thomas Kuhn in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962 to characterize a foundational transformation in the dominant theory of a science. Since its introduction the phrase has had to go [...]
Even Newton Knew He Sucked
February 5, 2010 - 11:37 AM
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It turns out that is not just us here at ACME Science, and more patricularly Combinations and Permutations, that think that Newton was a waste; so di he:
The young Isaac Newton’s “debtor’s ledger of sins”:
Stealing cherry cobs from Eduard Storer
Denying that I did so
Robbing my mothers box of plums and sugar
Calling Derothy Rose a jade
Punching [...]
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