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
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!
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Math/Maths Episode 2
Jun 14th
The second, and much longer episode of Math/Maths with myself, Samuel Hansen, and Peter Rowlett from Travels in a Mathematical World is up and live at http://www.pulse-project.org/node/209. You can also click the link below to download the episode, or on the player to listen to it.
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Combinations and Permutations Episode 45: The Number 31
Jun 12th
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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Math/Maths Podcast
Jun 7th
via petterrowlett.net
Since I am nowhere near satisfied running two podcast of my own, former Strongly Connected Components guest Peter Rowlett and myself have started a new podcast Math/Maths: 5136 Miles of Mathematics. It is being hosted over at Pulse-Project and you can see the first episode notes here.
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Combinations and Permutations Episode 44: It’s All in Fun
Jun 6th
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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Strongly Connected Components Episode 18: Peter Rowlett
May 31st
via petterrowlett.net
Your valiant host Samuel Hansen was joined by fellow mathematical podcaster Peter Rowlett for a conversation where Peter explains about what exactly the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications is, how he finds and interviews guests, and Peter also tries to interview Samuel as much as Samuel tries to interview him. You can find more about Peter by following him on twitter, listening to his podcasts Travels in a Mathematical World and History of Maths and x, as well as going to his personal website. Also you can find out How to Talk Maths in Public, learn about Mathsjam, and the IMA Branch Talks by click on those links.
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Combinations and Permutations Episode 43: Mr. Math Teacher
May 24th
On this, the 43rd episode of Combinations and Permutations Brandon Metz, Cody Palmer, and Samuel Hansen got together to record about an hour of surprisingly sincere and honest audio on mathematical teaching. Unlike most episode there is not a long list of links to wikipedia articles or pop culture minutiae to post here so instead I will leave you with two videos that were mentioned in the episode and the list of terrible teacher types.
First the List:
Mr. Looks-Only-At-the-Board
Mr. Engages-With-Only-a-Single-Person
Mr. Changes-Variables-While-Slamming-Markers-Into-the-Board-and_Erasing-Half-of-the-Work-Because-it-is-Really-Really-Wrong-and-Hands-Out-a-Ream-Worth-of-Wikipedia-Articles-as-Reference
Mr. Egotistical-the-Content-Doesn’t-Really-Matter-I’m-Only-Going-to-Talk-About-Myself
And now the videos:
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Martin
May 23rd
I never read Martin Gardner’s column in Scientific American. This doesn’t mean that I was not influenced by Martin Gardner. The work that he did to popularize mathematics has left indelible marks on my life, as I would not have had the teachers I had, or the interview subjects on SCC, without it. Therefore I was very sad to hear that he past away yesterday, and I will leave you hear with this video of Martin:
The Nature of Things / Martin Gardner from Wagner Brenner on Vimeo.
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