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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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.

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

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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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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:

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

Also Chuck Knoblauch and Keith Olbermann’s Mom

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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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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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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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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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On today’s episode Samuel Hansen really tries to make Anthony Sellari, Brandon Metz, and Christopher Bates discuss the three articles that he had assigned them to read.

Links to the articles discussed:
Bolztmann Solution
Metric Mania
The Number 31 and Counting

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On today’s episode Samuel Hansen plays host to Christopher Bates, Brandon Metz, and Anthony Sellari to talk about Recreational Mathematics and its God Martin Gardner.

Here are some links:
Martin Gardner
Recreational Mathematics
The Birthday Problem
Gathering for Gardner

Also here is a clip on the Monty Hall Problem from the TV show Numb3rs:

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