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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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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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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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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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.