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May I present to you The Combinations and Permutations Game Show with your Host Samuel Hansen and contestants Leigh-Anne Duncan, Christopher Bates, Eric Everstine, Anthony Sellari, Nathan Rowe, and Cody Palmer.

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Combinations and Permutations Episode 49: The Forbes 25th Ranked Mathematical Podcast

Jul 13th

Russian Math Genius Ignores $1 Million Dollar Prize
Go Figure: Maths is No Longer in its Prime
Computing’s Killer Problem

Samuel Hansen got Combinations and Permutations All-Stars Nathan Rowe and Anthony Sellari, as well as young starlet Eric Everstine together this week to talk about 3 pieces of very important Mathematical News.

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Combinations and Permutations episode 50 Sketch Outtakes

Jul 3rd

For the 50th episode of Combinations and Permutations we are going to try something completely different, and it is going to include sketches. Cody Palmer, Juan mariscal, and Samuel Hansen sat around a couple weeks ago and wrote some sketches and what follows is the unedited version of Juan’s version of a sketch called Kronecker’s Intervention. Enjoy!

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Combinations and Permutations Episode 48: Bad, Bad, Bad, Math

Jul 3rd

Pseudomathematics
Square the Circle Double the Cube Trisect the Angle
Constructability
The Wonderful Good Math, Bad math

Samuel Hansen welcomes Sean Najera into the Combinations and Permutations fold and brings back Eric Everstine and manages to pronounce his name correctly on the first try. The reason that Samuel did this amazing thing was to discuss the wonderful topic that is pseudomathematics.

Even though there commentary on pseudomathematics was beyond reproach, you, the listeners, may want to read some more on the subject so here are some links to more information:

Also Chuck Knoblauch and Keith Olbermann’s Mom

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Strongly Connected Components Episode 19: Keith Devlin

Jul 1st

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Via http://www.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/

On today’s, be it which ever day you happen to listen, episode of Strongly Connected Components Samuel Hansen comes back strong with an interview with NPR Math Guy, Co-Founder of Standford’s H-STAR Institute, and author of many books, including the wonderful and informative Unfinished Game which you should all go pick up right away, Keith Devlin. Keith and Samuel discussed just how one jumps from Set Theory to the study of Mathematical Cognition, the interaction of mathematics and language, and Dr. Devlin’s project that will bring mathematical video games to the masses(provided he can find $500 million). If you want to find out more about Keith Devlin make sure to check out his website and follow him on twitter.

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Combinations and Permutations 50th Episode Sketch Outtakes 2

Jun 29th

For the 50th episode of Combinations and Permutations we are going to try something completely different, and it is going to include sketches. Cody Palmer, Juan mariscal, and Samuel Hansen sat around last week and wrote some sketches and what follows is the unedited version of Juan’s version of a sketch called Kronecker’s Intervention. Enjoy!

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Combinations and Permutations Episode 47: Juan Wins?

Jun 27th

Samuel Hansen brought in Juan Mariscal, Cody Palmer, and Nathan Rowe together so that they could all talk about the subject which they teach: Trigonometry. Also, Samuel hosts a quick trivia contest.

Here are some links about what was discussed on this episode:
Trigonometry
Trigonometric Functions
Law of Sines

Final Scores of Trivia: Juan had 4, Cody had 3, and Nathan had 2

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Combinations and Permutations Episode 46: What Would Georg Do?

Jun 19th

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Samuel Hansen demands that Cody Palmer, Juan Mariscal, and Nathan Rowe talk about the least appreciated and most disparaged mathematician in recent history: Georg Cantor.

Links to this episode’s topic:
Georg Cantor
Set Theory
Baconism

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Combinations and Permutations 50th Episode Sketch Outtakes

Jun 15th

For the 50th episode of Combinations and Permutations we are going to try something completely different, and it is going to include sketches. Cody Palmer, Juan mariscal, and Samuel Hansen sat around last week and wrote some sketches and what follows is the unedited version of Juan’s version of a sketch called Kronecker’s Intervention. Enjoy!

Download the sketch here

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Math/Maths Episode 2

Jun 14th

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