Math Mutation

By Erik Seligman

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Welcome to Math Mutation, a podcast for people of all ages where we discuss fun, interesting, or just plain weird corners of mathematics that you would not have heard in school.(Feedback email erik@mathmutation.com).

Episode Date
Math Mutation 288: One Stone To Rule Them All
Dec 27, 2023
Math Mutation 287: The Grim State of Modern Pizza
Sep 09, 2023
Math Mutation 286: Adventures In Translation
Aug 27, 2023
Math Mutation 285: Believe My Proofs Or Else
Jun 29, 2023
Math Mutation 284: Don't Square Numbers, Triangle Them
Apr 30, 2023
Math Mutation 283: Escape From Infinity
Feb 27, 2023
Math Mutation 282: The Man With The Map
Dec 20, 2022
Math Mutation 281: Pascal vs Mathematics
Oct 30, 2022
Math Mutation 280: Rubik's Resurgence
Aug 25, 2022
Math Mutation 279: Improbable Envelopes
Jun 30, 2022
Math Mutation 278: Bicycle Repair Man
May 22, 2022
Math Mutation 277: Bad Career Advice
Mar 31, 2022
Math Mutation 276: Don't Believe the Math
Feb 20, 2022
Math Mutation 275: Demanding Fair Dice
Jan 22, 2022
Math Mutation 274: The Gomboc
Nov 30, 2021
Math Mutation 273: A Maze Of Labyrinths
Oct 31, 2021
Math Mutation 272: The Mathematics of Jackie Mason
Sep 20, 2021
Math Mutation 271: Too Much Testing
Jul 31, 2021
Math Mutation 270: Which Way To Turn
Jun 15, 2021
Math Mutation 269: A Good Use of Downtime
Apr 25, 2021
Math Mutation 268: The Right Way To Gamble
Mar 19, 2021
Math Mutation 267: Free Will Isn't Free
Jan 31, 2021
Math Mutation 266: A Number Is A Number
Dec 25, 2020
Math Mutation 265: Defining Numbers, Sort of
Nov 30, 2020
Math Mutation 264: Unbalanced Society
Oct 11, 2020
Math Mutation 263: Asimov vs Doyle
Aug 31, 2020
Math Mutation 262: My Bathroom Needs More Beryllium
Jul 31, 2020
Math Mutation 261: The Mystery of the S
Jun 28, 2020
Math Mutation 260: The Conway Criterion
May 17, 2020
Math Mutation 259: Is Reality Really Real?
Feb 07, 2020
Math Mutation 258: Memory or Knot
Jan 25, 2020
Math Mutation 257: Turning Things Sideways in Time
Dec 29, 2019
Math Mutation 256: Crazy Eyed Fish
Nov 30, 2019
Math Mutation 255: Mountain Climbing with Dawkins
Oct 07, 2019
Math Mutation 254: How To Annoy Your Cat
Aug 18, 2019
Math Mutation 253: Making Jewelry With Fermat
Jul 21, 2019
Math Mutation 252: A Mathematician Translating Pushkin?
Jun 23, 2019
Math Mutation 251: Paradoxes, Mathematical Oddities, and Formal Verification
May 20, 2019
Math Mutation 250: Life on the Long Tail
Mar 31, 2019
Math Mutation 249: The Other Half of the Battle
Feb 18, 2019
Math Mutation 248: A Safe Bet
Jan 07, 2019
Math Mutation 247: Wombat Geometry
Dec 28, 2018
Math Mutation 246: Election Solutions Revisited
Dec 02, 2018
Math Mutation 245: How Far Apart Are Numbers?
Oct 08, 2018
Math Mutation 244: Is Music Just Numbers?
Sep 08, 2018
Math Mutation 243: The Consciousness Continuum
Jul 29, 2018
Math Mutation 242: Effort and Impact
Jun 24, 2018
Math Mutation 241: A Strange Fixation
May 31, 2018
Math Mutation 240: R.I.P. Little Twelvetoes
Apr 30, 2018
Math Mutation 239: The Shape of our Knowledge
Mar 31, 2018
Math Mutation 238: Programming Your Donkey
Feb 18, 2018
Math Mutation 237: A Skewed Perspective
Jan 15, 2018
Math Mutation 236: A Stubborn Tortoise
Dec 19, 2017
Math Mutation 235: Syntax Wars
Nov 19, 2017
Math Mutation 234: Le Grand K
Oct 14, 2017
Math Mutation 233: A Totalitarian Theorem
Aug 28, 2017
Math Mutation 232: Overcooked Bacon
Jul 26, 2017
Math Mutation 231: A New Dimension in Housing
Jun 26, 2017
Math Mutation 230: Just Say The Dog Ate It
May 26, 2017
Math Mutation 229: When Numbers Change
Mar 26, 2017
Math Mutation 228: So Easy It's Hard
Feb 19, 2017
Math Mutation 227: Heads In The Clouds
Jan 29, 2017
Math Mutation 226: See You Next Year
Dec 29, 2016
Math Mutation 225: A Crazy Kind of Computer
Nov 29, 2016
Math Mutation 224: Did America Fail a Math Test?
Oct 31, 2016
Math Mutation 223: Think With Both Your Brains
Sep 26, 2016
Math Mutation 222: Fractal Expressionism
Aug 22, 2016
Math Mutation 221: The Trouble With Glass Beads
Jun 30, 2016
Math Mutation 220: Cognitive BSes
May 29, 2016
Math Mutation 218: Itching for the I Ching
Mar 27, 2016
Math Mutation 219: A Portal to the Past
Mar 27, 2016
Math Mutation 217: The Oxford Calculators
Feb 24, 2016
Math Mutation 216: Bowie Meets Escher
Feb 02, 2016
Math Mutation 215: It's Not A Conspiracy
Dec 23, 2015
Math Mutation 214: In Search of the Ultimate Math Game
Nov 29, 2015
Math Mutation 213 Proof of the Fourth Dimension
Oct 25, 2015
Math Mutation 212 De-Abstracting Your Life
Sep 27, 2015
Math Mutation 211 Saving A Few Million Years
Aug 30, 2015
Math Mutation 210 Two Plus Two Equals Five
Jul 26, 2015
Math Mutation 209 Wheels That Aren't Round
Jun 21, 2015
Math Mutation 208 Your Kids Are Smarter Than You
May 24, 2015
Math Mutation 207 Answering All Possible Questions
Apr 12, 2015
Math Mutation 206 Deceptive Digits
Mar 22, 2015
Math Mutation 205 The Converse of a CEO
Mar 01, 2015
Math Mutation 204 What Happened to Grigori Perelman?
Jan 18, 2015
Math Mutation 203 Big Numbers Upside Down
Dec 27, 2014
Math Mutation 202 Psychochronometry
Nov 23, 2014
Math Mutation 201 A Heap Of Seagulls
Oct 23, 2014
Math Mutation 200 Answering Common Listener Questions
Sep 28, 2014
Math Mutation 199 Precaution or Paranoia?
Aug 24, 2014
Math Mutation 198 We're All Pasteurized
Aug 03, 2014
Math Mutation 197 Four Dimensional Greek Warships
Jul 06, 2014
Math Mutation 196 When 'Is' Isn't
Jun 15, 2014
Math Mutation 195 Time-Reversed Worlds
May 18, 2014
Math Mutation 194 Voyages Through Animalspace
Apr 13, 2014
Math Mutation 193 Nonrandom Randomness
Mar 23, 2014
Math Mutation 192 A Logical Language
Feb 23, 2014
Math Mutation 191 Liking The Lottery
Feb 02, 2014
Math Mutation 190 Loving Only Numbers
Dec 28, 2013
Math Mutation 189 Squaring The Circle
Dec 08, 2013
Math Mutation 188 Democracy Doesn't Work
Nov 11, 2013
Math Mutation 187 Escher Made Real
Oct 13, 2013
Math Mutation 186 Not Quite Infinity
Sep 22, 2013
Math Mutation 185 The Gullible Ratio
Aug 27, 2013
Math Mutation 184 Infinity Times Infinity
Jul 28, 2013
Math Mutation 183 A Founding Theorem
Jun 30, 2013
Math Mutation 182 Money For Math
Jun 16, 2013
Math Mutation 181 Rediscovering The Basics
May 27, 2013
Math Mutation 180 Reading The Tea Leaves For Real
Apr 29, 2013
Math Mutation 179 Bugged By Math
Mar 31, 2013
Math Mutation 178 Mathematical Immortality
Mar 10, 2013
Math Mutation 177 Does This Podcast Exist?
Jan 29, 2013
Math Mutation 176 Perfect Maps
Jan 06, 2013
Math Mutation 175 Another Great Math Movie
Dec 16, 2012
Math Mutation 174 Too Much Math?
Nov 25, 2012
Math Mutation 173 Digital Roots
Oct 28, 2012
Math Mutation 172 Election Solutions
Oct 07, 2012
Math Mutation 171 Something Euclid Missed
Sep 16, 2012
Math Mutation 170 Gnarly Gnovels
Aug 26, 2012
Math Mutation 169 Isaac Newton, Supercop
Aug 05, 2012
Math Mutation 168 Twistier Than You Thought
Jul 14, 2012
Math Mutation 167 Basic Bugs
Jun 26, 2012
Math Mutation 166 A New Kind of Decade
May 28, 2012
Math Mutation 165 Comparative Disadvantage
May 13, 2012
Math Mutation 164 What Color Is Your Swan?
Apr 22, 2012
Math Mutation 163 Why Statisticians Stink At Statistics
Apr 01, 2012
Math Mutation 162 The Mathematician Who Wasn't There
Mar 14, 2012
Math Mutation 161 The Numbers Of Love
Feb 19, 2012
Math Mutation 160 The Boids And Bees Of Leadership
Jan 24, 2012
Math Mutation 159 Booms And Busts
Jan 02, 2012
Math Mutation 158 That's How We Do It In Government
Dec 18, 2011
Math Mutation 157 Infinite Infinities
Nov 29, 2011
Math Mutation 156 The Ultimate Answer
Nov 15, 2011
Math Mutation 155 Crazy Dice
Oct 23, 2011
Math Mutation 154 A New Perspective On Perspective
Oct 09, 2011
Math Mutation 153 Cracking Pythagoras
Sep 25, 2011
Math Mutation 152 Why The Hex?
Sep 04, 2011
Math Mutation 151 Forgotten Knowledge
Aug 14, 2011
Math Mutation 150 A Podcast About Nothing
Jul 24, 2011
Math Mutation 149 Robot Planet
Jun 28, 2011
Math Mutation 148 Your Size In Space And Time
Jun 14, 2011
Math Mutation 147 Elemental Obsession
May 27, 2011
Math Mutation 146 Mutating Up The Corporate Ladder
May 08, 2011
Math Mutation 145 Why Johnny Couldn't Add
Apr 16, 2011
Math Mutation 144 Is There A Hippopotamus In This Podcast?
Mar 28, 2011
Math Mutation 143 The Math Of Mutations
Mar 07, 2011
Math Mutation 142 Hippasus's Revenge
Feb 20, 2011
Math Mutation 141 The Right Way To Procrastinate
Feb 06, 2011
Math Mutation 140 Does The House Always Win?
Jan 12, 2011
Math Mutation 139 A Christmas Surprise
Dec 26, 2010
Math Mutation 138 You Can't Fool Bill Gates
Dec 12, 2010
Math Mutation 137 A What What?
Nov 21, 2010
Math Mutation 136 Are Coincidences Just Coincidences?
Nov 07, 2010
Math Mutation 135 Discovering The Third Dimension
Oct 24, 2010
Math Mutation 134 As Math Goes By
Sep 29, 2010
Math Mutation 133 Your Five-Dimensional Kitchen
Sep 06, 2010
Math Mutation 132 It Must Be True, There's An Equation
Aug 16, 2010
Math Mutation 131 The Perfect Podcast
Aug 01, 2010
Math Mutation 130 Epsilons And Deltas
Jul 19, 2010
Math Mutation 129 Alien Algebra
Jun 27, 2010
Math Mutation 128 A New Numerology
Jun 17, 2010
Math Mutation 127 Garden of the Mind
May 30, 2010
Math Mutation 126 Tic Tac What?
May 17, 2010
Math Mutation 125 Math Or Not Math?
Apr 25, 2010
Math Mutation 124 Everything Is A Rubber Donut
Apr 11, 2010
Math Mutation 123 A Million Dollar Choice
Mar 28, 2010
Math Mutation 122 Resolving A Paradox
Mar 07, 2010
Math Mutation 121 Why Left Is Right And Right Is Left
Feb 21, 2010
Math Mutation 120 A Pear-Shaped Planet
Feb 07, 2010
Math Mutation 119 Look Him In The Eye
Jan 20, 2010
Math Mutation 118 Monkeying Around With Probability
Jan 04, 2010
Math Mutation 117 A Question Of Assumptions
Dec 20, 2009
Math Mutation 116 Infinitely Ahead Of His Time
Nov 29, 2009
Math Mutation 115 I Have Lied To You
Nov 15, 2009
Math Mutation 114 Where Did My Line Go?
Nov 01, 2009
Math Mutation 113 Hippos In My Basement
Oct 19, 2009
Math Mutation 112 The Genius Who Cheated
Oct 04, 2009
Math Mutation 111 A Four-Dimensional House
Sep 20, 2009
Math Mutation 110 One Intestinal Worm Per Child
Sep 06, 2009
Math Mutation 109 Back To The Hall
Aug 23, 2009
Math Mutation 108 Where Am I?
Aug 09, 2009
Math Mutation 107 A Twisted Take on Turing
Jul 23, 2009
Math Mutation 106 Pre-Newton Nonsense
Jul 12, 2009
Math Mutation 105 A Universe Made of Math
Jun 30, 2009
Math Mutation 104 Fortunes, Debts, Ursa Major, and Cow Urine
Jun 13, 2009
Math Mutation 103 Missed It By That Much
May 31, 2009
Math Mutation 102 A Brush With Evil
May 10, 2009
Math Mutation 101 Don't Panic
Apr 19, 2009
Math Mutation 100 100th Episode Spectacular
Apr 05, 2009
Math Mutation 99 The Uninihibited Brain
Mar 22, 2009
Math Mutation 98 Math Day Madness
Mar 08, 2009
Math Mutation 97 Savants Are People Too
Mar 01, 2009
Math Mutation 96 Tally Folly
Feb 17, 2009
Math Mutation 95 Happy e Day!
Feb 08, 2009
Math Mutation 94 Yes, You Can Cross The Road
Jan 25, 2009
Math Mutation 93 A Math Teacher To Remember
Jan 11, 2009
Math Mutation 92 Hollow Days
Jan 04, 2009
Math Mutation 91 Fractals in the Hat
Dec 28, 2008
Math Mutation 90 The Long Now
Dec 14, 2008
Math Mutation 89 Improbable Probabilities
Dec 07, 2008
Math Mutation 88 More Than A Cartoon Cat
Nov 23, 2008
Math Mutation 87 Unlistenable But Fun
Nov 09, 2008
Math Mutation 86 The Shape of the Universe
Oct 26, 2008
Math Mutation 85 Florence Nightingale, Math Geek
Oct 19, 2008
Math Mutation 84 How To Bankrupt Your Boss And Get Rich
Oct 05, 2008
Math Mutation 83 Candide's Calculus
Sep 21, 2008
Math Mutation 82 How Not To Decorate Your Bathroom
Sep 07, 2008
Math Mutation 81 A Billion Frenchmen Can Be Wrong
Aug 31, 2008
Math Mutation 80 Possible-Worlds Accounting
Aug 24, 2008
Math Mutation 79 Chinese Pen Pals
Aug 17, 2008
Math Mutation 78 And You Thought Those Mice Were Smart
Aug 03, 2008
Math Mutation 77 Are You Smarter Than A Mouse?
Jul 27, 2008
Math Mutation 76 Grue and Bleen
Jul 19, 2008
Math Mutation 75 Giving You The Fingers
Jul 13, 2008
Math Mutation 74 A Competitor for Flatland
Jul 06, 2008
Math Mutation 73 The Future That Never Arrived
Jun 22, 2008
Math Mutation 72 Shuttle Butt
Jun 07, 2008
Math Mutation 71 What Goes Around, Comes Around
Jun 01, 2008
Math Mutation 70 Number Nonsense
May 25, 2008
Math Mutation 69 Interesting Numbers
May 18, 2008
Math Mutation 68 The Bogus Bang?
May 11, 2008
Math Mutation 67 Chaos
May 04, 2008
Math Mutation 66 Fuzzy Dice
Apr 20, 2008
Math Mutation 65 Sacrificing a Goat To Calculus
Apr 14, 2008
Math Mutation 64 Exponents Squared
Apr 06, 2008
Math Mutation 63 Turning Around In Time
Mar 31, 2008
Math Mutation 62 Names of God
Mar 23, 2008
Math Mutation 61 Observing The Universe
Mar 16, 2008
Math Mutation 60 Drop That Number Or We'll Shoot
Mar 09, 2008
Math Mutation 59 Fun With Infinities
Mar 02, 2008
Math Mutation 58 On Average, Things Are Average
Feb 24, 2008
Math Mutation 57 Really Old Math
Feb 17, 2008
Math Mutation 56 My Brain Hurts
Feb 12, 2008
Math Mutation 55 The Painter's Paradox
Feb 03, 2008
Math Mutation 54 Mozart Rolls The Dice
Jan 27, 2008
Math Mutation 53 Is Flatland Doomed?
Jan 20, 2008
Math Mutation 52 Sparklines
Jan 08, 2008
Math Mutation 51 Why The Week?
Dec 30, 2007
Math Mutation 50 A True Holiday Celebration
Dec 23, 2007
Math Mutation 49 What Is Math Anyway?
Dec 16, 2007
Math Mutation 48 Computers On The Brain
Dec 09, 2007
Math Mutation 47 An Unusual Lottery
Dec 02, 2007
Math Mutation 46 The World's Simplest Computer
Nov 25, 2007
Math Mutation 45 The Aliens Among Us
Nov 18, 2007
Math Mutation 44 Friends in Mathematical Places
Nov 11, 2007
Math Mutation 43 A Theorem Made Real
Nov 04, 2007
Math Mutation 42 Solving Burma's Problems
Oct 28, 2007
Math Mutation 41: Action, Drama, and Geometry Lessons
Oct 21, 2007
Math Mutation 40 Death By Theorem
Oct 14, 2007
Math Mutation 39 A Statistical Legend
Oct 07, 2007
Math Mutation 38 11-Dimensional Spaghetti Monsters
Sep 30, 2007
Math Mutation 37 Baby Math
Sep 23, 2007
Math Mutation 36 Christmas in August
Sep 16, 2007
Math Mutation 35 One Messed-Up Triangle
Sep 09, 2007
Math Mutation 34 Not Over Till It's Over
Sep 02, 2007
Math Mutation 33 Watch Zeno Make Russia Disappear
Aug 26, 2007
Math Mutation 32 How Polish Math Saved Europe
Aug 19, 2007
Math Mutation 31 Putting The Multiverse To Work
Aug 11, 2007
Math Mutation 30 Will The Real Fourth Dimension Please Stand Up
Aug 05, 2007
Math Mutation 29 What A Planet Sounds Like
Jul 28, 2007
Math Mutation 28 Someone Knocked My 8 Over
Jul 22, 2007
Math Mutation 27 How Many Crayons Do You Need?
Jul 04, 2007
Math Mutation 26 That Krazy Kepler
Jun 30, 2007
Math Mutation 25 Everything Is a Number
Jun 23, 2007
Math Mutation 24 A Mathematical Nuclear Bomb
Jun 16, 2007
Math Mutation 23 Stupid Number Tricks
Jun 09, 2007
Math Mutation 22 Between The Dimensions
Jun 02, 2007
Math Mutation 21 Infinite Perimeter, Finite Area
May 27, 2007
Math Mutation 20 The Round Road To Damnation
May 19, 2007
Math Mutation 19 Throwing Darts At Your Problems
May 12, 2007
Math Mutation 18 Squash Those Dice
May 05, 2007
Math Mutation 17 Visitors From The Next Dimension
Apr 28, 2007
Math Mutation 16 Doodling
Apr 21, 2007
Math Mutation 15 A Pretty Big Library
Apr 14, 2007
Math Mutation 14 Exponentials for Easter
Apr 07, 2007
Math Mutation 13 Another Problem for the Millenium
Mar 31, 2007
Math Mutation 12 Refusing the Nobel Prize
Mar 24, 2007
Math Mutation 11 A Movie You Should See
Mar 17, 2007
Math Mutation 10 The Rain Man's Secret
Mar 10, 2007
Math Mutation 9 The World As A Computer
Mar 03, 2007
Math Mutation 8 Flattening The Earth
Feb 24, 2007
Math Mutation 7 I Want My Molecule!
Feb 15, 2007
Math Mutation 6 What Color Is This Podcast?
Feb 13, 2007
Math Mutation 5 Too Infinite For Me
Feb 10, 2007
Math Mutation 0 Infinite Reasons to Listen
Feb 04, 2007
Math Mutation 1 City of Mutants
Feb 04, 2007
Math Mutation 2 Homer's Last Theorem
Feb 04, 2007
Math Mutation 3 The Monty Hall Paradox
Feb 04, 2007
Math Mutation 4 Flat People Give Me Indigestion
Feb 04, 2007