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Episode 13: Ivars Peterson

March 11, 2010 - 9:52 AM

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On today’s episode Samuel Hansen has a conversation with noted mathematical journalist, Director of Publications and Communications for the Mathematical Association of America, and, most importantly, the Mathematical Tourist Ivars Peterson. You can find out more about Ivars Peterson on his website and can find his columns at the MAA.
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Inverse Graph Calculator

March 10, 2010 - 11:32 PM

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Thanks a lot to Combinations and Permutations contributor Cody Palmer for the link to this fun math site. Check out what equation your name creates. (LINK)

Episode 38: Plastics and Constants

March 10, 2010 - 10:50 PM

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Samuel Hansen is still the host, and well over his ennui of last week, and has Nathan Rowe and Christopher Bates on to talk constants in honor of Pi Day

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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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