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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR. CardColm | 13 avr. 2012 | 00:14:20 | |
Colm Mulcahy joins us to share some of his card magic! | |||
| HQ. Newton v Leibnitz | 26 mars 2012 | 00:10:25 | |
A break from puzzling to discuss the history of the great Newton-Liebnitz dispute over the invention of Calculus, with the playwright Todd Taylor. | |||
| HP. Happy Root 10 Day | 16 mars 2012 | 00:09:37 | |
For procrastinators... | |||
| HO. Crazies On The Plane | 09 mars 2012 | 00:06:32 | |
Madness in the aisles... | |||
| HN. Barbette | 27 févr. 2012 | 00:10:09 | |
The great aerialist Barbette makes an wholly gratuitous appearance on the Math Factor, and a few quick puzzles. | |||
| HM. Five Cards | 17 févr. 2012 | 00:11:46 | |
Big math news, answers and a quick and easy puzzle. | |||
| HL. Bear Hunt | 10 févr. 2012 | 00:09:40 | |
Kyle stumps Chaim, and we revisit a neat twist on an old chestnut | |||
| HK. Spiders and Fly | 03 févr. 2012 | 00:09:58 | |
Another pursuit puzzle from the Math Factor | |||
| HJ. Strange Suitor | 27 janv. 2012 | 00:07:11 | |
An odd marriage proposal... | |||
| Hi! Getting Closer | 16 janv. 2012 | 00:06:58 | |
How close can we get to exactly one glass of water? | |||
| HH. Corpuscle Candy | 11 janv. 2012 | 00:11:46 | |
Hot piles of M&M's! | |||
| HG. Two Love | 01 janv. 2012 | 00:08:17 | |
Numbers, numbers numbers... hadn't noticed there are so many of them. | |||
| HF. True Love | 23 déc. 2011 | 00:01:29 | |
In which Chaim ponders how much his true love loves him truly. | |||
| HE. On Cake and Coffee | 12 déc. 2011 | 00:12:55 | |
In which we discuss the mystery of cooling coffee. | |||
| HD. The Math Factor Returns | 04 déc. 2011 | 00:04:34 | |
And we're back in the studio together again! Lots of great stuff to come! | |||
| HC. Strongly Connected Components | 14 juil. 2011 | 00:33:20 | |
Check out the Strongly Connected Components podcast at acmescience.com | |||
| HB. Puzzlers Pegg and Stephens | 09 avr. 2011 | 00:39:10 | |
Back with an interview with two fantastic puzzlers, Ed Pegg (mathpuzzle.com) and James Stephens (puzzlebeast.com) Check out mathfactor.uark.edu for lots of links to the puzzles and people they talk about. | |||
| HA! Conway on Gardner | 28 juin 2010 | 00:57:23 | |
John H. Conway on his friendship with Martin Gardner. | |||
| The Math Factor Takes a Bow | 09 mai 2010 | 00:01:32 | |
We are taking the summer off (at a minimum) but check back in a while for new segments. And don't forget to drop us a line! | |||
| GY. Conversation with Greg Chaitin | 05 avr. 2010 | 01:02:19 | |
A conversation with Greg Chaitin, creator of Chaitin's Omega and author, most recently, of MetaMath!! These ideas are well worth a close listen. | |||
| GW. Wolfram's Principle of Computational Equivalence | 30 mars 2010 | 00:07:39 | |
Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and author of A New Kind of Science describes a fundamental principle, showing how irreducible complexity arises even in simple systems. | |||
| G4G9 Report From the Gathering | 28 mars 2010 | 00:21:40 | |
Quick interviews at the Gathering, with Stephen Wolfram, Will Shortz, Dale Seymore, John Conway and many others! | |||
| GV. Three Quick G4G9 Puzzles From Ed Pegg | 25 mars 2010 | 00:01:32 | |
We catch up with Ed Pegg, of mathpuzzle.com who gives us three great puzzles! Now Tweeting from G4G9! | |||
| GW. Math Factor Hits The Road | 22 mars 2010 | 00:06:55 | |
The Math Factor hits the road, with live updates from the Gathering For Gardner! And the premier of James Greeson's Canon and Chorale on Pi. | |||
| GV. Mix Up At The Five And Dime | 13 mars 2010 | 00:05:50 | |
A vintage segment from July 11, 2004. | |||
| GU. Number Freak | 07 mars 2010 | 00:11:51 | |
Derrick Niederman tells us what is so un-22 about Catch 22, and other marvels from his new book, Number Freak. | |||
| GT. The Largest Escher Exhibit Ever | 27 févr. 2010 | 00:19:35 | |
The largest Escher exhibit ever is on display in Boca Raton. A must see event! | |||
| GS. I Met A Man | 20 févr. 2010 | 00:04:48 | |
In which we discuss the yillion and a strange encounter with an aged man. | |||
| GR. VIth Anniversary of the Math Factor! | 11 févr. 2010 | 00:10:07 | |
That's right, we return with our sixth anniversary "special". Can a clip show be far behind? | |||
| GQ. Durned Ants | 31 déc. 2009 | 00:06:46 | |
Keep those durned outs offa me! | |||
| GP. Switcheroo! | 26 déc. 2009 | 00:07:57 | |
A plan for the shop, and still more tormented prisoners. What is the deal with those poor souls anyway? | |||
| GO. Coin Fraud! | 17 déc. 2009 | 00:08:41 | |
Yay! Another Fraud Detection Prevention tip from your friends and accomplices at the Math Factor, as well as further discourse on Benford's Law. | |||
| GN. Benford's Law | 03 déc. 2009 | 00:06:57 | |
If you're gonna commit accounting fraud, some things to watch out for! Benford's law is an amazing property of many kinds of lists of data. | |||
| GM. What's the Big Deal Anyway? | 25 nov. 2009 | 00:07:18 | |
Wherein Chaim lets off a little steam about an urgent problem... | |||
| GL. Math 2033 | 19 nov. 2009 | 00:03:37 | |
Chaim's new Math 2033 is going like gangbusters! Check out the class wiki at math2033.uark.edu | |||
| GK. Mythematics | 13 nov. 2009 | 00:08:01 | |
Michael Huber solves the 12 Labors of Hercules! | |||
| GJ. Mathletics | 03 nov. 2009 | 00:11:45 | |
Wayne Winston discusses his sports-math book, Mathletics! | |||
| GI. Mrs. Perkins' Electric Quilt | 20 oct. 2009 | 00:12:16 | |
Paul Nahin discusses his fabulous new book "Mrs Perkins Electric Quilt", mosquitos, falling through the Earth, whether mathematics is "real" and much more! | |||
| GH. The Math Book | 09 oct. 2009 | 00:14:39 | |
Clifford Pickover discusses his beautiful new Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics. | |||
| GG. OLD IDAHO USUAL HERE | 01 oct. 2009 | 00:05:54 | |
Stephen Morris rounds out his puzzles with a discussion of OLD IDAHO USUAL HERE. | |||
| GF. More Clock Crazies | 24 sept. 2009 | 00:06:38 | |
Jetting around with Stephen Morris, who leaves us at a rare loss for words! | |||
| GE. Clock Confusion | 17 sept. 2009 | 00:10:33 | |
Stephen Morris, mathfactor correspondent at large, discusses the Kate Bush conjecture and how to get a dead clock to tell the right time many times throughout the day! | |||
| GD. The Math Circus Is Coming! | 08 sept. 2009 | 00:07:01 | |
Back after a sleepy summer, the Math Circus Opens 9/9/9! | |||
| GC. Another Buncha Prisoners | 28 juil. 2009 | 00:08:37 | |
Man, what is it about puzzlers and prisoners? Jeff Yoak lines em up and the stakes are high! | |||
| GB. Hat Strategy | 20 juil. 2009 | 00:03:28 | |
#mathfactor now on twitter; Jeff Yoak poses a hat puzzle stumper! | |||
| GA. Stacking the Chips | 14 juil. 2009 | 00:11:02 | |
Jeff Yoak discusses math in his career as a poker pro. | |||
| FZ. Will a Real Gold Coin Please Stand Up? | 06 juil. 2009 | 00:02:40 | |
Jeff Yoak, one of the mathfactor website authors, shares a puzzle with an intriguing twist! | |||
| FY. Weights in a Row | 02 juil. 2009 | 00:02:34 | |
Every number in a mysterious sequence is the weighted average of its neighbors... | |||
| FW. Walk Around the Clock | 19 juin 2009 | 00:01:35 | |
A quick puzzle sent in by a listener! Very elegant solution, using a fair coin... | |||
| FV. Singmastery! | 12 juin 2009 | 00:11:34 | |
David Singmaster, Puzzler Extraordinaire, early master of the Rubik's Cube, poser of the Singmaster Conjecture, etc, etc, engages in some wordplay. | |||
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