Archive for April, 2010
Love the Science and Science the Love
0The Unicorns of the Hydrocalypse have brought us this wonderful video about what really goes on in Science Labs:
So We Missed Some
0Way, way back in the early days of Combinations and Permutations, epsiode 2 particularly, we discussed mathematics and its appearences in popular culture. I knew at the time we would miss whole swaths of instances and now thanks to Oliver Knill from Harvard I have proof. Knill has put together an amazing collection of Math in Movies, which I swear I will link to at least one more time before this is over, complete with clips from many movies. Here is an example of Math in Movies, there is that last link, from Monty Python’s Flying Circus we have Leibniz in Goal and Archimedes as Striker:
Make sure to check out the rest of the videos on Knill’s site, got even one more link in right here, to see just what we missed.
We are all One Big Happy Family
0The Mathematics Genealogy Project, Mitch Keller Managing Director, has long been one of the favorite time wasters for mathematicians on the internet. Just type in the name of your teacher, advisor, or yourself, if you are a PhD, and you will be able to track back, through the advisor-student relationship, all the way until the records run out and probably find yourself admist such luminaries as Gauss, Bernoulli, and Leibniz. Well over at thatismathematics they have used the data from the Mathematics Genealogy Project to put together a brand new service: Mathematical Relationship Search. Just input the names of two mathematicians and voila, you could find out, like I did, that your advisor is the sixth cousin six times removed of Carl Frederich Gauss.
P vs. NP: The Epic Battle
0The world’s first look into the real lives of the two most important complexity classes(via fortnow)
Strongly Connected Components Episode 15: 50 Years of UNLV Mathematics
0This time on Strongly Connected Components we are doing something a bit different, what you will hear is a project that you host Samuel Hansen has been putting together over the past couple of months on the history of mathematics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I hope you like what you hear.
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Combinations and Permutations Episode 40: John Henry was Here
1It has been quite a while since we have recorded, or released, anything but here we are with a new epsidoe of Combinations and Permutations. Your host Samuel Hansen is joined by Rob Schultz from notART and Better Radio, as well as regulars Nathan Rowe and Christopher Bates to talk about the problem with Searle.
Here is a quick set of links to what they discussed:
Chinese Room
John Searle
Turing Test
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
John Henry
Lederhosen
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