Pulse-Project Math/Maths Weekly Podcasts
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A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. Peter Rowlett in Nottingham calls Samuel Hansen in Las Vegas and the pair chat about math and maths that has been in the news, that they've noticed and that has happened to them.
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Math/Maths 98: Why do buses come in Markov chains? | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Has a "schoolboy 'genius'" solved a problem set by Isaac Newton that "stumped mathematicians for centuries"?; A Long-Time Limit for World Subway Networks; Space-filling; Running buses that don't come in threes using Markov chains; A level Further Mathematics numbers up; Ofsted say 'Every pupil needs a good mathematics education'; The influence of classic literature; Locally produced documentary on psychic octopus to première in Europe; Unabomber updates alumni book; Open Access Update; "Tenet" - Galois on stage; Math and Physics Flashcards; Math Girls Comic Kickstarter; and more. | 5/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 97: Travelling Salesman Movie Special | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke briefly to introduce this interview Samuel recorded with Timothy Lanzone, the writer and director of the forthcoming movie, Travelling Salesman. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 96: Permeated by Robot Noise | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Math paper retracted because it 'contains no scientific content'; Top Majors of 2022; New Journals of Negative Results; New UK law obliges publishing of public data in open formats; Frozen primes; Follow the timeline of Alan Turing's life; TU Munich Cancels Elsevier; Help get Octave developed for Android! (like MATLAB, but free); Open Textbook Catalog; Tony's Maths Blog; Tika Taka Analysis; Fractal Pancakes; and more. The recording is clear but, though Samuel could hear Peter, although with a time lag, during the episode Peter increasingly couldn't hear Samuel. Makes for fun times! | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 95: Massively Multiplayer Online Mathematics | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Math Massive Open Online Course (MOOC); A-level sciences 'lack the maths students need'; School maths should be more practical, say (some) teenagers; College Dropout Became Mathematical Genius After Mugging; Feminine math, science role models do not motivate girls; The Reason that Spies love Math; Rubik's Challenge 2012; Concorde TSP App; The Traveling Salesman Version of Sam’s Face; Wikipedia adds MathJax display option; IMA YouTube channel; Protection of Freedoms Bill; The Aperiodcast; HUMANS V NATURE: Engineering FTW; and more. | 5/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 94: Broadcasting From A Hollowed Out Volcano | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Alan Turing papers on code breaking released by GCHQ; Biography by Turing's mother republished; Bletchley Park to host Loebner Prize competition; How the universe began; Biodiversity model reliability; MathAlive; Volcanic eruptions and Benford's Law; New Careers section on Plus Magazine; QAMA Calculator now shipping; Harvard Library view on journal pricing; The Aperiodical launches; and more. | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 93: TW's School of Hard Sums | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about Dara O Briain's School of Hard Sums with 'Maths Advisor' and special guest Thomas Woolley, also with each other about: The game of go as a complex network; The Trapezium Conundrum; European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad; QAMA Calculator; Gowers and Penrose popular lectures; Travelling Salesman Movie; and more. | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 92: Put Alan Turing on a Buckliball | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Thomas M. Rodgers (3 Aug 1944 - 10 Apr 2012); Racism in academic mathematics; Buckliball; What sank the Titanic?; Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket; Best and Worst Jobs of 2012; Numerical prodigy sets Guinness record for subtraction; e-petition: Put Alan Turing on bitcoins; Bedtime Math; Minds of Modern Mathematics iPad app; Turing-Tape Games; BAMC writing prize; Maths Busking at Engage U; Mathematicians Take a Stand; 3D printed Sierpinksi tetrahedron, Mobius strips loaded with ball-bearing; Sophie's Diary; Amelia and the Mapmaker; Carnival of Mathematics 85; America’s struggle to make math fun; Spammers are targeting mathematicians; and more. | 4/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 91: Gathering for Gardner 10 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. First Samuel and Peter were joined by special guest Edmund Harriss to talk about his time at Gathering for Gardner 10 and Five math things to do before you die, then they spoke with eachother about: Snowflake Growth Successfully Modeled from Physical Laws; A Joint Position Statement of the Mathematical Association of America and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics on Teaching Calculus; All the Math Taught at University Can Be Outsourced. What Now?; Mathematical Fonts; Intersections, Henry Moore and British modernism exhibition; Emmy Noether: The Mighty Mathematician You've Never Heard Of; Rechner Calculator; Math Awareness Month: Mathematics, Statistics, and the Data Deluge; and much more. | 4/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 90: Maths is to Mathematics as Math is to...? | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Endre Szemerédi wins the Abel Prize 2012; Automatically tagging the World Service archive; Intel Science Fair; 72nd Putnam; The Spanish link in cracking the Enigma code; Greater Manchester sunflowers to test Alan Turing theory; e-petition: Put Alan Turing on the next £10 note; Five Math Things to do Before You Die; Music helps children learn maths; Alcohol boosts ability to solve problems creatively; Spiked Math IQ Test; Mondrian of Life; Journalism lecturer to take maths GSCE to test 'dumbing down'; The Proof is Trivial; Angry Birds Space Mirrors Real Rocket Science; Rosenthal Prize; The New MAA Store; new NCETM contract; Reviving the Carnival of Mathematics; Google interviews: would you get a job with the search giant?; and more. | 3/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 89: Remark on a Theorem of Hilbert | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Pi day; US judge rules that you can't copyright pi; Drug Data Reveals Sneaky Side Effect; Researchers Send "Wireless" Message Using Elusive Particles; Computing Power Speeds Safer CT Scans; Mathematics Matters UK Parliament meeting; Mario is NP-hard; ERC rejects 'impact agenda'; Article Titles Make a Difference; Half of children find science and maths too difficult or too boring; Careers advice cuts could be putting kids off science; and more. | 3/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 88: Entertaining, or illegal? | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Haptic Math App; model of how buds grow into leaves; Mathematical Model Explains How Hosts Survive Parasite Attacks; Sperm Can Do Calculus; Hit game shows like Deal or No Deal and Play Your Cards Right could be forced off air after gambling watchdog claims that they break the law; Mathematical Horoscopes; National Numeracy; Afraid of Your Child's Math Textbook? You Should Be.; Awards for statistical excellence in journalism; and much more. | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 87: Faulty Cables, Ridiculous Buses & Intergalactic Steroids | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Samuel's ridiculous bus trip; Computer programmes with IQ 150; IBM's Watson and data analytics; Extracting Dynamical Equations from Experimental Data is NP-Hard; OPERA faster-than-light neutrinos experiment UPDATE 23 February 2012; 'Invisibility' cloak could protect buildings from earthquakes; How Bots Seized Control of Carlos Bueno's Pricing Strategy; Calculus: The Musical!; Who says 'maths curriculum failing to meet the needs of the 21st century'?; Turing Stamp; & more, and Peter spoke to some of the team behind Maths in the City on the occasion of their inaugural London walking tour. Oh, and Samuel forgot to mention Science Sparring Society's second fight, but the link is in the show notes anyway. | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 86: Complex Pony Tails | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: The Recent Difficulties with RSA; Do we need a maths museum?; Brian Schmidt’s Mathematical Arguement; IBM claims most PhD mathematicians in its employ; Maths grads teaching alert; John Nash’s Letters to the NSA; The mathematical equation that caused the banks to crash; Rapunzel’s Number: Science behind ponytail revealed; EPSRC Shaping Capabilities; Maths Jam; & more. | 2/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 85: Scientists vs. Investment Bankers | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Every odd integer larger than 1 is the sum of at most five primes; No pardon for Alan Turing; more super bowl math; Early results from the Met Office weather game; Trends in Race/Ethnicity and Gender Representation in the Mathematical Sciences; Wolfram|Alpha Pro; more on Elsevier boycott; & more. | 2/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 84: A π-curious Nerd | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Peter spoke with special guest Matt Parker about Festival Of The Spoken Nerd, Your Days Are Numbered, use of the word 'geek' and the Telegraph Numeracy campaign, and with Samuel, live from the streets of New York City, spoke about: superbowl math; The Crafoord Prize; John Leech MP says Alan Turing should be pardoned; singingbanana code challenge 2012; Non-transitive Grime Dice; Facebook-type Mathematics networking site; Torus Games & more. | 2/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 83: Pac-Man is NP-Hard | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Pac-Man is NP-Hard; How to learn to love maths; The Gender Gap in Maths; The Mathematician's Shirts photos; Algorithmic Education; Mathematics World UK Launch; Neighbourly Advice; Vision for science and mathematics education 5–19; Approximating the Hilbert Curve with 3-D Printers; Elsevier & The Cost of Knowledge revisited; Turing Centenary Events; Science Sparring Society's First Fight. | 1/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 82: Skynet Gains Approximate Number Sense | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Herb Wilf Memorium; Gowers & Elsevier; Math-Blind AI Teaches Itself Numbers; The Future of Statistics in our Schools and Colleges; Cartels are Emergent Phenomenon; Évariste Galois is Andrew Miller's hero; MIT Math Bee Creates Campus Star; Ian Stewart's top 10 popular mathematics books; Lonely Planet; Touching the Crocheted Clouds; Figshare; Four Squares game; and more. | 1/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 81: Coincidence, or Moriarty? | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Cambridge Coincidences Collection; Tiger bush; Alan Turing Centenary Cryptography Competition; Pasta Graduates from Alphabet Soup to Advanced Geometry; Sherlock Holmes averts world war using mathematics; The Perfect Dartboard; The readers' editor on... the trouble with numbers in Guardian reporting; Domain; What is mathematics? and more. | 1/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 80: Eigenvector Pigeons, Fractal Mail and Alien Quasicrystals | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: breakthrough in Sudoku Puzzle; Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies Are Bright Star Clusters; Fractal Dimension of Zip Codes; Nobel prizewinning quasicrystal fell from space; Slumlord Social Networks; The peculiar physics of crumpled paper; Mathematics of Lego; Animals That Can Count Update: Pigeons!; Stephen Hawking at 70; Banach-Tarski!; New Year Honours; Alan Turing stamp; How to inject creativity into your maths lessons; and more. | 1/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 79: Review of the year - 1811 | In a traditional move for the start of January we attempt a review of the year. In an untraditional move, we choose the year 1811. Samuel and Peter weren't able to speak directly because of the ongoing tension following American independence and the brewing Anglo-American war of 1812, but they cover some mathematical hot topics and the work of several contemporary mathematicians, including Carl Friedrich Gauss, Joseph Fourier, Mary Sommerville, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Siméon Denis Poisson and Marie-Sophie Germain, plus the tale of a mathematician born this year: Évariste Galois. | 12/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 78: Researchers and the Media Special | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week is a special episode with Samuel and Peter speaking to mathematician Kevin Houston about his experience at the centre of the media storm around Tau day and statistician Nathan Green about his time as a BSA Media Fellow with the Guardian. Two researchers with very different experiences of interacting with the media. | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 77: See Isaac Newton Think | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Google donates £550,000 to help accomplish Bletchley Park restoration vision; GCHQ CanYouCrackIt Solution explained; 2012 MAA Award Winners; Higgs Boson betting; Microlives; David Spiegelhalter on Wipeout; Newton Papers; Mayans 'did not predict world to end in 2012'; There Really is no Difference Between Men and Women’s Math Abilities; Beyond Journals; New Mathematics Matters; Correlation or Causation; 50 proofs to read before you die; Quaternions by the Royal Canal; and more. | 12/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 76: Hot Matrix Algebra News | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Facebook's '3.74 degrees of separation'; Matrix algebra news; Network Theory of Basketball; Calculators in primary school; Google Shows Some Love to Math Lovers; GCHQ spy recruitment code solved, would-be spies directed to £25,000 job vacancy; Introductory Calculus for Infants; Fibonacci Scarf; Straight Statistics merges with Full Fact; EPSRC Mathematical Sciences fellowships update; Physics and mathematics teachers; Princess in a Castle news; and more. | 12/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 75: Play Dough Manifolds | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke with special guest Katie Steckles about the everything and nothing workshop videos, with special guest James Grime about Britain's Greatest Codebreaker, a Turing pardon e-petition and the Alan Turing fetish, and with each other about: the first time a perfect hand of cards has been dealt in the history of the game; Applying math to biology ‘nets’ success; Mathematics Today expressed in 'Science in Parliament'; Number of adults in England with poor numeracy rising; Mathematics at the Transition to University; some advent calendars and other Christmas links; and more. | 12/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 74: Live at Kingswood School | A conversation about mathematics live from Kingswood School in Bath brought to you by Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: algorithmic game theory; Babbage's Analytical Engine; Leonardo da Vinci's formula for tree growth and why it works; 11.11am on 11.11.11; Maths gear; The Olympic Torch Tour; Guinness world-record 17x17x17 Rubik's cube; and more. | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 73: Live at Maths Jam Conference 2011 | Live at the Maths Jam Conference 2011! Peter and Samuel were joined by special guests Matt Parker, James Grime, Katie Steckles and Julia Collins, with contributions from Dan Hagon, John Read, Ben Sparks and Jamie Stuart-Smith. They spoke about: Professor McOwan awarded Mountbatten Medal; A Synthetic Molecular Pentafoil Knot; everything and nothing: a performance project exploring the possible shapes of the universe; YouTube bids to cash in on TV maths' popularity with Numberphile; Dara O Briain's School of Hard Sums; the Maths Jam Conference; and more. | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 72: 7 Billion People Flipping Pancakes | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel joined Peter direct from rainy Barcelona and the pair spoke about: "7 Billionth Person"; Pancake Flipping is NP-Hard; The World’s Ugliest Music; Internet 'weighs the same as a strawberry'; 9 Equations True Geeks Should (at Least Pretend to) Know; Harold Camping Apologizes For Faulty Rapture Predictions And Retires; Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard); James Yorke The Many Aspects of Chaos; Alan Turing play 'Breaking the Code' in Oxford; Four Nations Maths Challenge; NSPCC: Number Day 2011; Ramanujan film 'The First Class Man'; MAA Celebrates Women's History Month; The BSHM Neumann Prize 2011; Grierson award joy for The Joy of Stats; and much more. | 11/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 71: Halloween Fruit Special | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: David Lynch, maths and art; Agreement to tie kilogram, ampere, kelvin, and mole to fundamentals; special guest appearance from James Grime to talk Chris Evans Breakfast Show, BBC2 Code-Breakers documentary, a new YouTube channel "Numberphile" and corduroy appreciation; Cantor Eggs; Bobbing apples; Experimental mathematics with computing; Spectral analysis; Cancer screening; EPSRC 'shaping capabilities'; and more. | 10/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 70: Giants, apocalypse and faster than light travel | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Harold Camping Oct. 21 Rapture; What does a majority mean?; man who 'ordered a size 14.5 slipper but got a size 1,450'; 10 trillion digits of pi; Faster than light neutrino update; Twitter health trends; Capitalist network; Fashion brands suggest 'girls are bad at math'; Garden of Cosmic Speculation; London and Manchester Science Festivals, Irish Maths Week and the international Gathering for Gardner Celebration of Mind; PBS Kids Educational Games; NYC water towers; and more. | 10/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 69: Serious Confetti | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke with special guest Sharon Evans about the IMA early career activities and how you can help her by answering a question, and then to each other about: Leonardo DiCaprio tipped to play Alan Turing; 'Jewish' Math Problems; Nobel Economics prize; The futile predictions of the pointless 'science' of economics; Model of Language Incorporates Need for Repetition; Studying Random Structures With Confetti; Adorable Fractal Analysis; Benford's Law Resurgence?; Best High Schools for Math and Science; Dr Maths in Ireland; and more. | 10/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 68: Danger, James Grime! | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Enigma machine sells for world record price; Bletchley Park Trust Secures Grant For The Restoration but needs your help to get it; Quasicrystals and other Nobel Prize news; Court rules against use of Bayes' Theorem; Novel math formula predicts success of certain cancer therapies; Incentives for Advanced Work Let Pupils and Teachers Cash In; Celebrate Ada Lovelace day with Plus; Crystals of Mt Zeta; Math Genius Snubs Academy of Sciences; Math Girls is Glee for Math Nerds; and more. | 10/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 67: Starlings, Quants and Virtual Monkeys | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. With half the recording, alas, lost, this week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Tim Harford's New ways with old numbers; Letter to the prime minister on the future of mathematics in the UK; Penrose Letter to Aiko Hizume; the Magic of Flocks of Starlings; Quant Trading, or How Math Whizzes Helped Sink The Economy; Virtual monkeys write Shakespeare. Oh, and news hot off the press that Combinations and Permutations is coming back and needs your help. | 10/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 66 | Sarah Shepherd has died. This week's episode is just a quick note in which Peter explains the part Sarah played in the ancestry of this podcast. | 9/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 65: Animatronic Bertrand Russell | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: data capacity in biochemical cell signals; how Ashton Cooper learned to love the Museum of Mathematics; how early numbers skill predicts later math ability, yet again; experiments with 'Predictive Policing' in Santa Cruz; irreproducibility of published scientific results; MIT Math Prize for Girls; what was said on Big Science FM; Samuel's first post on Second-Rate Minds; and more. | 9/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 64: Worse than Albania! | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Commemorative Calculus; Olympic sculpture is a marvel of mathematics; Enigma Docs Revealed; Prize awarded for largest mathematical proof; Shamos Catalog of Real Numbers; People are 'born bad at maths' reprised; Math Gender Gap: Nurture Trumps Nature; We’re worse than Albania: Maths and science schools shocker; Sums tables 'not needed for maths success'; Oprah/Opera 111 Email; Students' weakness in maths leaves academics counting the cost; The Mathematics of Number Plate Spotting; Dara O Briain to host Dave maths series; numerous competitions you can enter and events you can attend. | 9/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 63: How Mushy Is Your Singing Banana? | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. Sorry about the audio quality this week! This week Samuel and Peter were both on the road and special guest Christian Perfect stepped in to make the recording possible (thanks Christian!). They spoke about: Using Fractals to Determine if a Banana is Mushy; Government funding of research and outreach; Debt Ceiling Deal: The Case for Caving; Tony Sale obituary from special guest James Grime; The Greatest Problems Facing Math Departments?; Earth stalker found in eternal twilight; Perfecting Your Math Skills on the Road; Archimedean molecule creates brand new compounds; Advice for New Students; What's the chance of being disqualified for a false start? and more. | 9/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 62: The linearity of deliciousness | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: GCSE results; Google's Eric Schmidt criticises education in the UK; Harvard study says poverty doesn’t explain away low American math scores; LHC results put supersymmetry theory 'on the spot'; Women sparse in math, science fields; Science reporting – ready to come of age?; How to Fix Our Math Education; The Wrath Against Khan: Why Some Educators Are Questioning Khan Academy; First instalment of the eagerly awaited results to the pizza survey; Met Office Weather game. Afterwards, Peter spoke to special guest Tony Mann about cereal bars and the linearity of deliciousness. | 8/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 61: The Math/Maths Effect | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: A-level results and the 'Brian Cox effect'; AMS Election and Fellows Proposal; arXiv at 20; 13 year old makes Solar Power breakthrough by harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence; Meet Beau: The maths genius dog who can add, subtract and do square roots... as long as he gets a biscuit in return; Hyenas can count like monkeys; Hard Math is Patentable; Detexify; they talk to special guest Matt Parker from SciFoo and special guest Katie Steckles about Everything and nothing: a new research performance project exploring the possible shapes of the universe; and they introduce their over-hyped new project Second-Rate Minds. | 8/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 60: A world-class mathematics podcast for ALL our listeners? | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: the Vorderman report on maths education "A world-class mathematics education for ALL our young people"; 7 Questions You Didn't Know Could Be Answered With Math; Standard & Poor's responds to proposals for stronger oversight; 'Haircuts' identified as a cause of financial crisis; All US Competitors Win Medals at 2011 China Girls Math Olympiad; People are 'born bad at maths'; 'Lucky' woman who won lottery four times outed as Stanford University statistics PhD; and more, and were joined by special guest Edmund Harriss to discuss an interesting set of mathematical structures and images, including: The Circle Group; Klein Bottle; 120 Cell; Penrose Tiling; Hopf Fibration; Six-Particle Choreography; Byrne's Euclid; Sangaku; Fano Plane; Game of Life. | 8/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 59: Sam Hansen, raconteur | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Relatively Prime is Funded; Ultimate Logic: To Infinity and Beyond; Increased maths and data in marketing; Math Can Predict Insurgent Attacks, Physicist Says; The Code episode 2; Perspectives in Math and Art; 'Perfect cipher' dates back to telegraphs, 35 years prior to being invented; Google sends Street View trikes to Bletchley Park; Turing's Handrawn Monopoly Board; Eat, Prey Rain; Broken Lotteries; The Unreasonable Beauty of Mathematics [Slide Show]; and more. | 8/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast 58: The Code Has You | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week, with only hours left for you to donate to Samuel's Kickstarter project Relatively Prime, Samuel and Peter spoke with special guest Julia Collins about her new mathematics blogs 'What's on my blackboard?' and 'The Mathematician's Shirts', and with each other about: The Code, mathematics communication and the place of science and mathematics in society; Game Design Engages Students in STEM; Mathematical Sleepaway Camp; The Wrongulator; Longshot Magazine; and more. | 8/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 57: Support Relatively Prime! | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Peter asked Samuel about Relatively Prime - you only have days left to support this fundraising effort. Then they spoke to special guest Tony Mann about a recent major conference in history and philosophy of mathematics and special guest Katie Steckles about handing in her PhD, being a mathematician at a children's birthday party and attending the BIG conference. Finally, Peter and Samuel spoke to each other about: The unplanned impact of maths: an update; The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO); The answer to a 20 year old problem in optimisation; Portugal's New Education Ministers Mathematical Background; Chua Wins Australia's Neumann Award; Maths at the British Science Festival; Ri grants for schools for mathematics enrichment activity; IMA e-student (free signup); Marcus du Sautoy's The Code; Sam's thesis; and more. | 7/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 56: The unplanned impact of mathematics | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke with Edmund Harriss about The unplanned impact of mathematics and the 14th Early Career Mathematicians Conference, and with each other about: Neptune's birthday; Journalists statistical skills; The Queen at Bletchley Park; A court ruling on the legal meaning of 'strictly random'; The UK National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics: past, present and future; US State Education Rankings: The Best And Worst For Math And Science; New Math in HIV Fight; MU Psychology Study Finds Key Early Skills for Later Math Learning; The man who proved that everyone is good at maths; Virginia Tech wins big at RoboCup 2011, Britain suffers early defeat; John Barrow wins IMA-LMS Christopher Zeeman Medal; Google+; and more. Support Relatively Prime! http://bit.ly/relprime | 7/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 55: Who discovered it? special | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week, for a non-topical episode, Samuel and Peter got an update from Ben Nuttall about his week in Ireland and then spoke about multiple discoveries and scientific priority disputes, covering: examples of multiple discoveries; Stigler's law; Standing on the shoulders of giants; polymath and more. Oh, and they touch on Newton/Leibniz. | 7/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 54: A nice slice of Tau | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Tau day (Pi under attack from an underground movement); Rubik's cubes of any size can now be solved; Michael Gove speaks to the Royal Society on maths and science; Charlie Stripp & the Further Mathematics Support Programme; Stephen Curry: Numb or Numbered; The longlist for the 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books; Princeton researchers solve problem filling space -- without cubes; Mathematically ranking ranking methods; Cracked Mathematicians; Miniature 'knot lab' could help untangle DNA mystery; Data Mining the Monthly's Greatest Hits; Second thoughts result in payout; Samuel Hansen at MathFuture; Maths at the East Midlands Big Bang Fair (Solving it like a mathematician); Developing mathematical thinking through problems, puzzles and games; and more. | 7/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 53: There was a young man from MMU | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter revisited Maths in the City and Favourite numbers with special guest Christian Perfect; Peter caught up with Ben Nuttall at the European Study Group with Industry in Limerick and Samuel and Peter spoke about: Google Correlate; Buffon’s Needle & other probabilistic experiments; An easy-to-make sequence that fooled random number checkers; Matching pennies; Whether Math Teachers need advanced subject knowledge; 20 Most Influential Scientists Alive Today; Mathematics Genealogy Project; Tennis maths; and more. | 6/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 52: World's Smallest Klein Bottle | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Developing mathematical thinking; early math lessons change children's brains; Formulas for the perfect cup of tea and the perfect golf putt; university dropout rates tied to preparedness, not laziness; ACME Mathematical Needs; Mapping Galaxy clusters; $500,000 for mathematician who laid Poincaré groundwork; Ten signs a claimed mathematical breakthrough is wrong; Peter Hall accepts Guy Medal; Math Cats; 30 years of Ri Maths Masterclasses; World's Smallest Klein Bottle; Jordan will sum it up for UK at maths Olympiad; Maths in the City competition winners; Statistical excellence award winners; latest on Relatively Prime; new Monthly MathsJam meetings; and more. | 6/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 51: What's your favoUrite number? | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. Due to Peter being ill, this week the pair spoke only briefly to introduce Samuel talking to Alex Bellos about his favourite number project and Colin Murphy about the Pulse-Project call for Expert Explanations. Plus an update on Relatively Prime. | 6/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 50: 1st Birthday Spectacular! | A special, live streamed 1st birthday episode of the podcast that offers a conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter looked back on the year, pitted special guests James Clare and Dan Hagon in a Math/Maths year 1 quiz and briefly covered some news: Abel Prize awarded to John Milnor in Oslo; Wave 'invisibility cloak' could shield coastlines; Possible Collatz Conjecture Proof; Students set 'impossible' maths question demand new exam; and more. Also remember you heard it here first: Your help is needed to fund 'Relatively Prime: Stories from the Mathematical Domain', a podcast project by Samuel Hansen. | 6/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 49: MathsJam Explosion | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: K3,3 is planar; Hardwired Geometry; Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake; Highest paying majors; Code-cracking machine returned to life; Scenes de ballet; How maths can help with (almost) everything; 144 BC Chinese War Game Theory; dyscalculia and math anxiety; jargon; 75 Years of Computer Science; MathsJam explosion; and more. Tune in LIVE next week - we're streaming our 50th. Details in the show note links. | 5/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 48: Apocalypse, post-apocalypse & extinction | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Judgment Day Mathematics, and what happens next; You're Living in a Computer Simulation, and math proves it; Calculations may have overestimated extinction rates; Teeth Clenching Mathematics; The Danger of Praise; Supercomputers crack sixty-trillionth binary digit of Pi-squared; S. Korea US to Exchange Math Teachers; Teenagers must stick at English and maths; 71st Putnam; Olympiads; World Measurement Day; Arabic-Indic numerals; Calculus Rhapsody; and much more. | 5/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 47: Listener questions | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter were joined by special guest James Grime to answer listener questions. What use are graphics calculators? What is your favourite number? How do you solve 6/2(2+1) (and do you care)? Is maths rapidly developing or finished and polished? Why is most taught maths pre-1950? Is maths discovered or created? When did you first consider yourself a mathematician? What do you think of the arts? What do you think about the stereotypical mathematician? Can a short proof of Fermat's Last Theorem exist? What's the best maths communication conference? How do people use Twitter for networking and publicity? | 5/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 46: Early Mathematics Day | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter received a report from special guest Dan Hagon live from the BSHM/Gresham College Early Mathematics Day, reprised Grigori Perelman and the Maths of AV and spoke about: The Greatest Mathematicians of All Time; Could Han Shoot Second?; Paul The Psychic Octopus - The Movie; 40 Years of P vs. NP; TakeAIM: Articulating the Influence of Mathematics; Good maths journalism example: Tackling the big unaswered problems; Journal of Humanistic Mathematics; High School students offer flood of ideas; Why Bayes Rules; 13-Year Periodic Cicadas Emerge; Mangahigh now 100% Free also for UK & Republic of Ireland Schools; 14th Early Career Mathematicians Conference; The Calculus I Student; Numbas; and more. | 5/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 45: Will Grigori ever speak to the press again? | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: White Blood Cells Solve Traveling-Salesman Problem; Grigori Perelman Interview ("Grigori Perelman claims he can control Universe"); UK Voting - AV referendum; Push to define year sparks time war; What do you want on your tombstone?; Early math skills predict later academic success; STEM Education DATA; Strange Places to Prove Theorems; Ravi Kannan Wins Knuth Prize; Mathematical Guggenheim Fellows; Why we’re all far too sure of ourselves; In a Data-Heavy Society, Being Defined by the Numbers; and more. | 4/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 44: Prehistoric Sat-nav is back | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Museum of Math has a Home; Prehistoric Sat-nav is back; Snow Alogrithms; Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book; Flu Math; Professor who "makes maths fun' gets top award; A Better Way to Teach Math; Child calls 911 for maths help; 10 Charts About Sex; Olympic sports; Predictive Health Prize; Gambling with Secrets; Otomata; Glee is Wrong; and more. | 4/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 43: Did Samuel pass his thesis defence? | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Letting There Be More Mosquitoes May Lead to Fewer Malaria Deaths; Australian mathematicians say some endangered species "not worth saving"; Are Ants Smarter Than Fifth-Graders at Math?; the Duckworth-Lewis Method; 2 reviews of Alex's Adventures in Numberland; Ethnomathematics; How do routefinders find their routes?; New Symmetries; Open University to get US funding; The On-Line Blog of Integer Sequences; The Big Risk Test; MathsJam 2011; whether Samuel passed his thesis defence; and more. | 4/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths 42 - Maths in the City | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke with special guest Rachel Thomas about Maths in the City and with each other about: Pioneer Anomaly Solved; 3D Knight's Tour; Antikythera Mechanism; Google grants for math; FBI cryptography - Help Solve an Open Murder Case; Requiring Algebra II in high school gains momentum nationwide; Mangahigh Launches 100% Free Games-Based Math Resource for US Schools; Gauss Facts; and more. Episode 42 and not a Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference in sight, oops! | 4/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast 41 - What makes a mathematician, and who should communicate mathematics? | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: What makes a mathematician? And who should communicate mathematics? Also: Math Awareness Month; MathFest 2011; Peabody Awards; GCHQ Code Cracking Challenge; & more. | 4/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast 40 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: RSS urges people to fill out Census; The Abel Prize 2011: John Milnor; A Schock Prize for an enormous theorem; Organized religion 'will be driven toward extinction' in 9 countries, experts predict; Deciphering hidden code reveals brain activity; James Gleick's Information; Banking cheats will always prosper; Public School Math Doesn’t Teach Students How to Reason; Mathematics in Movies; 14 Holidays Every Math Major Must Know; Education bosses shamed as recruitment advert for MATHS teachers shows equation... with the WRONG answer; How to make a Slinky look like a Klein bottle; and more. | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast 39 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: nuclear radiation; the Worst Statistics in the World; SOCCER SKILLS DOWN TO MATHS AND SCIENCE SAY SPORT BOFFS; Mathematicians invent a new way to pour stout; Can bees color maps better than ants?; Is mathematics discovered or created?; Bressoud Testifies Before House in Support of STEM Funding; Les Valiant Wins ACM Turing Award; ABEL PRIZE 2011; Romanian Masters in Math & Science; Riemann hypothesis; Using cams to solve math problems; Mathematics of Web Design & the Golden Section; The maths of 007 Top Trumps; calculus-based CAPTCHA; What Pi sounds like; & more. | 3/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast 38 | From Pulse-Project.org. A short one this week because Peter wasn't able to talk to Samuel. Peter apologised and spoke briefly about: Earthquakes and tsunamis, and prediction; Celebrating mathematical women; Pi Day; and your correspondence. | 3/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast 37 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Math/Maths History Tour of Nottingham; U.K. Powerless to Stop ‘Jedis, Witches’ Spoiling 2011 Census; Apportionment in the European Parliament; the world’s most difficult maths problem; The Hodge Conjecture; pi birthday; Polisticians, Demographics and Destiny; All it took to beat Watson, the "Jeopardy"-winning computer, was a rocket scientist-congressman; The End of Algebra?; Compulsory Maths; Dyscalculia Day; The Way You Learned Math Is So Old School; Learning Math with a Video Game; I predict a riot: Where the next dictator will fall; getstats Stats Buskers; and more. | 3/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast 36 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Watson, Jeopardy and beyond; mathematician credited with solving one of combinatorial geometry's most challenging problems; Ants build cheapest networks; 'Periodic Table of Shapes'; Pride in poor maths culture 'must be tackled'; Alan Turing's Patterns in Nature, and Beyond; Alan Turing Papers bought by Bletchley Park Trust; It's a young numbers game; World Education Rankings (episode 26 call-back); Fastest-Declining Academic Fields; Maths and Sport: Countdown to the Games; 20 Top Math Teacher Tweeters; Radical Statistics essay competition; Math Raps; special guest Julia Collins joins Samuel to discuss Engaging with Engagement; and more. | 2/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast 35 - Why Maths? Special | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week is a special episode in which Samuel and Peter spoke to Ruby Childs about her investigations into why some people like maths and choose to study it further, when others don't and whether we should be saying "maths is fun". | 2/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast 34 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: The Best Questions For A First Date; The Science of Soccer Substitutions; Role of statistics regulator; Math may help calculate way to find new drugs for diseases; Proposing math models to enhance two-way wireless network communication; Without language, numbers make no sense; Unique math program helps students; Aloha Math; Overweight Kids Who Exercise Improve Thinking, Math Skills: Study; Mathematics teachers learn to inspire students by encouraging pattern hunting; The pointy end of pineapple numbers; Giant Leaps; Researchers produce world's first programmable nanoprocessor; 2011: Ranking 200 Jobs From Best to Worst; 1942 adding machines: a marvel of non-essential zero elimination!; The blackboard - a modern classic; Carnival of Mathematics #74; Bite-sized History of Mathematics; Valentine's day mathematics; & more. | 2/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast 33 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Dr Ian Porteous; President Honors Outstanding Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Mentors; Macroscopic invisibility cloaking of visible light; Tau Manifesto; Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code; Penny Bias; Informed Choices; Teacher training places and goodbye to the golden hellos; As 3,500 meteorologists meet, one man's forecast: Chance of pirates; Bringing the Census into the internet age; Mathematicians design bone implants for the future; New Mathematical Model of Information Processing in the Brain Accurately Predicts Some of the Peculiarities of Human Vision; Snowdecahedrons; Crime maps: how useful?; What's Andy Carrol really worth?; Ed Miliband admits being 'a bit square'; Why nerds rule the world; The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A released; Record numbers apply for university places; Marcus du Sautoy to be MA President; & more. | 2/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast 32 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Edmund Harriss' job search; Museum of Mathematics; Watson 'wins' Jeopardy!?; Few Students Show Proficiency in Science, Tests Show; Seattle's 'Discovering' math curriculum; Cal State Northridge professor charged with allegedly urinating on colleague's office door; Coincidence odds are wrong yet again; Mathematical Model Could Help Predict and Prevent Future Extinctions; Long-standing conjecture on Plane Partitions proved; Researchers use cell 'profiling' to detect abnormalities -- including cancer; Atom counting helps kilogram watch its weight; Math Monsters; Google donates 1 million euros to IMO; Japanese man gains world record for pi calculation; & more. | 1/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast 31 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Putting reality back into the equation; Weak gravitational lensing and weak arguments; Me and My Algorithm; Mass Animal Deaths; Counting Animals; Yes, bonuses do work – but for fruit-pickers, not City bankers; Finite formula found for partition numbers; Prime numbers in the House of Lords; Rhonda Hughes Honored with AWM's First M. Gweneth Humphreys Award; National Curriculum Review - Call for Evidence; How much will the budget cuts affect your studies?; Vi Hart; Straight Statistics; and more. | 1/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast Episode 30 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke to special guest Katie Steckles about Maths Busking and MathsJam, then to each other about: unlucky house numbers; Mathematics-Inspired Dance Work; Perfecting Animation, via Science; The Mathematics Of Beauty; Geomagic Squares; Irving Kaplansky's "A Song about Pi"; Edsac computer to be rebuilt at Bletchley Park (by Boffins); An App for Every Course; Oxford and A*s; Maths Inspiration Photo Competition 2010 winner and runners up; and more. | 1/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast Episode 29 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Rapture Math; 2011 numerology; 2011 Joint Mathematics Meetings and Exhibition of Mathematical Art; Batman Probability; 'The worst info graphic of 2011'; NASA's? best and worst science fiction movies; Pedantry on Euler and masts; mathematical matter; 100 Years of the Principia; Ten News Stories of 2010 - and the Statistics that Made Them; Celia Hoyles awarded the first Kavli Education Medal; Why a Cloned Cat Isn't Exactly Like the Original: New Statistical Law for Cell Differentiation; Math Monday is the best of 2010; The 12 Math Carnivals of 2010 and the 73rd Carnival of Mathematics; LMS Membership survey; 2nd Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today Conference; Robot solves Rubik's cube in 15 seconds & more. | 1/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast Episode 28 - Review of the Year: 1910 | In a traditional move for the start of January we attempt a review of the year. In an untraditional move, we choose the year 1910. Topics covered: the death of Florence Nightingale gives a good reason to look at the development of modern statistics; the publication of Principia Mathematica volume 1 by Russell and Whitehead brings up axiomatisation and inconsistency; the publication of Einstein's special relativity leaves some questions about freefall and gravity; Geiger & Marsden firing alpha particles at gold foil has Rutherford questioning the structure of the atom; ten years on from Hilbert's Problems we ask how many have been solved; plus we look at the work of new LMS President and 1910 Royal Society Sylvester Medal winner Henry Baker and new Fellow of the Royal Society G H Hardy. | 1/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast Episode 27 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Finding order in chaos; Modeling Snowflakes in Wintry Wisconsin; Mobile phone radiation linked to people jumping to conclusions; IBM supercomputer set for Jeopardy quiz show showdown; Primary School Students Conduct and Publish a Study on Bees; Students taking maths post-16; BREAKTHROUGH in algorithms: Improved algorithm for Metric TSP!!!!!!!!; Human networking theory gives picture of infectious disease spread; Pythagoras, a math genius? Not by Babylonian standards; 3D printed icosidodecahedron; Possible New European Heritage Label for Bletchley Park; NCETM Special Award for STEM - Does maths count?; Math/Maths in Google Books Ngrams; and more. | 12/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast Episode 26 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: the invention of calculus (again); Providing Incentives to Cooperate Can Turn Swords Into Ploughshares; Google Chrome OS advert Math; WikiLeaks founder was ‘no star’ mathematician; Singapore's Math Priority & US Parents overconfident in children's mathematics; PISA World education rankings; ant algorithms; time before Big Bang; celebrating 12/12; interest on your credit card; Skyscraper Equation; Oxfam formula for a happy Christmas; Best Mathematical Writing of 2010; Math Article Shows Collaboration Is Not Limited by Geography—or Age; The World's Social Networks; Lego Antikythera Mechanism; Single Digits; Christmas tree designed in GeoGebra; Royal Institution Christmas Lectures; and more. | 12/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast Episode 25 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Innumeracy Behind Airline Security; Poker at high school; Incredible Edible Foam; Dear Santa: Please Send Owl Puke; 20th C.'s Most Boring Day; Secret of Big Caves Revealed by Math; Non-Transitivity; The kilogram; The Mismeasurement of Science; SAT vs A levels; TDA beats recruitment targets in science and maths; Country rankings in math and science; advent calendars; Math/Maths LIVE from Greenwich: Now on video; Combinations and Permutations Episode 57; and more. | 12/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast Episode 24 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Linking geometric problems to physics; Card Tricks and Data Compression; Racial profiling; The aftershocks of crime; Mumford Receives the National Medal of Science; Improve your maths to get rich & boost the economy; Anti-Complexitism; The Meaning of Maths; Vi Hart Math Doodles; various competitions; and much more. | 11/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast Episode 23 - LIVE from Greenwich | This episode recorded live at the University of Greenwich. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Android phone solves Rubik’s cube in 12.5 seconds; Edmonton Eulers; Relativistic trading; American math achievement; Russian maths problem teaches students who's really in power; NASA's Metric Failure; quantum error threshold; Top Five Utterly Incomprehensible Mathematics Titles; Your own maths theorem for £15; and news & stories (including from MathsJam) from the floor at Greenwich. Special guests this week: Mitch Keller, Tony Mann, David Singmaster, Nic Mortimer and Noel-Ann Bradshaw. | 11/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast Episode 22 - LIVE from MathsJam! | Math/Maths Live recording at MathsJam on Saturday 13th November 2010. A special episode with no news but views from the floor at MathsJam. | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast Episode 21 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: UK graduate destinations; Jihadist Economics; Electric current to the brain 'boosts maths ability'; US House Network Analysis; New Statistical Model Moves Human Evolution Back Three Million Years; Geometric Death Frequency; Flexible metamaterial springs to life; Matt Parker Millennium Problems Guide; £10,000 bill for £21.60 theft case that turned out to be maths error; important living mathematicians; Women’s choices, not abilities, keep them out of math-intensive fields; MathML 3; preparations for Math/Maths Week; & more. | 11/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast Episode 20 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Can bees do maths?; How much math do we really need?; Paul the Octopus, how psychic was he and what does Mahmoud Ahmadinejad think?; Roller Coaster Math; Happy Birthday SI Units; Math Happiness in Korea; Pumpkin Math; Topswops; Bo Burnham Math Song; Complex Power Towers; Mathematics Genealogy Project; Samuel's Facebook Network; Math/Maths Live & more. | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 19 fixed | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: World Statistics Day; Barack Obama on MythBusters; Change the Equation; UK Spending Review; Marathon Math: How Not to Hit the Wall; the physics of the wet dog shake; Gathering for Gardner Celebration of Mind; Ridiculous-Sounding Math Classes; Pumpkin Pi; and more. Plus details of the upcoming Math/Maths UK Live recording and week of events. | 10/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 18 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Benoit Madelbrot; STEM; Mathematics is vital!; Great Mathematicians on Math Competitions & School Mathematics; Curious mathematical law is rife in nature; Augusta School Board Approves Single Sex Math Classes; Study:It's Hard to Bring Down the Electric Grid; Mathematika Goes Online; Ray and Charles Eames Powers of Ten Video Response Design Competition; Calling all maths artists; And the Nobel Prize in Mathematics goes to...; Maths in a Box; Solving a Rubik's Cube blindfolded; Math/Maths Podcast Live Recording at Greenwich. | 10/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 17 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Rubicks Cube Robot; Winning with mathematics; Pizza Hut is Anti-Math; Vedic Maths rejected; Musicians with Ph.D.'s; the mathematical secrets of verse; Klein Bottles; nanoscale Mobius strip; Calculator Plots onto Images; Irish Maths Week; Numerologists; 10/10/10; Science is Vital;World Statistics Day 2010; getstats; USA Science & Engineering Festival; G4G Celebration of Mind; Teaching Math as narrative Drama; Who are your important living mathematicians? | 10/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 16 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke to special guest Colin Wright about MathsJam and to each other about: the first truly habitable exoplanet; Ed Miliband again; breast cancer statistics; the uncanny accuracy of polling averages; chemometrics and tea; polymath 3; the origin of altruism; Mom and Dad taking math classes; Singapore Math in the USA; UK schools enlisting Indian maths tutors online; the Carnival of Mathematics; the magic square on the Sagrada Familia; and much more. | 10/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 15 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Math Prizes; Google 10^100; Ed Milband's maths geek credentials; maths lesson world record; Joseph Kruskal; Kavli Education Medal; Recursive Pizza; quantum dice; Wolfram blog; Standing on a stepladder makes you age faster; bacterial growth; maths graduates in IT; Fibonacci pigeons; special guest James Grime's Enigma Project in Finland; Bletchley Park; more bed bugs; and more. | 9/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 14 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Prime birthdays; gravity defying coffee cup; maths education & innovation; why parents can't do maths today; students get iPads; child-killing maths quiz; cult of youth; Danica McKellar books; chaos following the big bang; the two quadrillionth slice of pi; the National Cipher Challenge; hyperbolic Internets; British Science Festival; Pi-Hunting; constrained writing; recommended reading for new maths & stats lecturers; bed bugs; postgrads who teach; projectile dynamics in sport; and more. | 9/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 13 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Plus Magazine, live from the International Congress of Mathematicians; Roberto Carlos' free kick; A New Kind of Baseball Math; More on P !=NP; The #mathgeek experiment; Clustered Networks; measuring physical constants; testing string theory; Twitter Venn; Mangahigh; and more. | 9/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 12 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: International Congress of Mathematicians 2010; Fields and Chern Medals, Nevanlinna and Gauss Prizes; Maths A-level numbers; A*; Areexams getting easier?; computer vs. pen-and-paper tests; Futurama;vintage calculators; Euclid's Elements In Colour; wikimath; a conversation with Matt Parker live in Edinburgh; and more. | 8/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 11 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Your Days Are Numbered: The Maths of Death; Simplest Solution to Rubik's Cube; Professor Matt Parks; 2010 China Girls Math Olympiad; Students’ Understanding Of The Equal Sign; A relatively serious proof that P does not equal NP and the after effects thereof; International Congress of Mathematicians 2010; Superconductors and fractals; Pi-hunting; iSquared Magazine; the house where Einstein stayed & more. | 8/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 10 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about:left-handed boys; the Mathematical Side of M. C. Escher; nested water, land and nations; the number of books in the world; Seventh graders describing scientists; pi to 5 trillion decimal places; Scientopia; drug-resistant malaria; careers in bioinformatics; Kickstarting Punk Mathematics; Sci Foo; improved invisibility cloaks; non-transitive dice; MathJax; and more. | 8/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 9 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: The attention received by the Tuesday Boy problem; A-level reforms; Women's International Math Congress; rowing; data sorting; sperm movement mystery; The Mandelbrot Monk; swarms of locusts; quantum cryptography; atomic clocks on International Space Station; elections;heart disease; moss spores; and MathFest Tweetup. | 8/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 8 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Pi day; Godel Prize and Kyoto Prize winners; 'Buckyballs' in interstellar space; Bridges Conference; asciiTeX; Formula for the perfect handshake; Algebra as a Faustian bargain; Maths at British Science Festival; maths puzzles outreach; MathFest; and James Grime's RSA challenge. | 7/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 7 | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: fighting terrorism; "cool" science stories; space dinosaurs; pouring coffee; 4-time lottery win; Wolfram on maths curriculum; Mandelbrot on fractals; dance; International Mathematical Olympiad; whether data are or data is; Abel Prize nominations; and much more. | 7/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 6 | Maths challenges, the world cup, algebra of music and much more are discussed in episode 6 of the Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics. A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. | 7/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 4 | Episode four of the Math/Maths podcast, With Peter Rowlett in Nottingham and Samuel Hansen in Las Vegas. | 6/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 3 | Episode three of the Math/Maths podcast, With Peter Rowlett in Nottingham and Samuel Hansen in Las Vegas. | 6/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics Episode 2 | Episode two of the Math/Maths podcast, With Peter Rowlett in Nottingham and Samuel Hansen in Las Vegas. | 6/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics | A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA. Peter Rowlett in Nottingham calls Samuel Hansen in Las Vegas and the pair chat about math and maths that has been in the news, that they've noticed and that has happened to them. | 6/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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...talking about math. I'd describe the podcast as two friends shooting the breeze, but instead of talking about sports, they're talking about what's going on in the math world. Peter is in the UK and Samuel is in the US and they offer a nice balance. If you're interested in what's happening in math, subscribe. You don't need to be technically advanced in math to find it interesting.
I don't know much about Math...
But I know I like this. Misters Hansen and Rowlett discuss interesting topics and in a way a dummy like me can understand. Listen, people, this thing is informative AND entertaining, so subscribe already!
p.s. Something, something, quadratic equation.
A Great Podcast About The Big Events in Math(s)
I don't know why it took me this long to write a review (I've been listening from the very beginning!), but listening to the latest episode (*Review of the Year - 1811*) reminded me the importance of feedback!
This podcast is truly one-of-a-kind. There are plenty of (fantastic!) science news podcasts out there, but this is the only mathematics news podcasts that I'm aware of, and yes, it is fantastic! Samuel and Peter manage to bring otherwise lifeless press releases and news articles alive, sharing their unique insights. They keep me abreast of the latest going ons in the mathematical world. And most of all, they're *very* entertaining to listen to!
I'm a graduate student in Applied Mathematics at University of Maryland, and every time I listen to this show I wonder why I don't start up a podcast of my own. And then I realize I would not be able to compete with Samuel and Peter!
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