A brief, weekly math conversation and puzzle, airing on KUAF 91.3 FM, Fayetteville Arkansas. Send your answers, comments, questions, puzzles, or cash, to mathfactor@uark.edu!
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A break from puzzling to discuss the history of the great Newton-Liebnitz dispute over the invention of Calculus, with the playwright Todd Taylor.
The great aerialist Barbette makes an wholly gratuitous appearance on the Math Factor, and a few quick puzzles.
Kyle stumps Chaim, and we revisit a neat twist on an old chestnut
Numbers, numbers numbers... hadn't noticed there are so many of them.
In which Chaim ponders how much his true love loves him truly.
And we're back in the studio together again! Lots of great stuff to come!
Check out the Strongly Connected Components podcast at acmescience.com
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.
John H. Conway on his friendship with Martin Gardner.
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!
A conversation with Greg Chaitin, creator of Chaitin's Omega and author, most recently, of MetaMath!! These ideas are well worth a close listen.
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.
Quick interviews at the Gathering, with Stephen Wolfram, Will Shortz, Dale Seymore, John Conway and many others!
We catch up with Ed Pegg, of mathpuzzle.com who gives us three great puzzles! Now Tweeting from G4G9!
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.
Derrick Niederman tells us what is so un-22 about Catch 22, and other marvels from his new book, Number Freak.
The largest Escher exhibit ever is on display in Boca Raton. A must see event!
In which we discuss the yillion and a strange encounter with an aged man.
That's right, we return with our sixth anniversary "special". Can a clip show be far behind?
A plan for the shop, and still more tormented prisoners. What is the deal with those poor souls anyway?
Yay! Another Fraud Detection Prevention tip from your friends and accomplices at the Math Factor, as well as further discourse on Benford's Law.
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.
Wherein Chaim lets off a little steam about an urgent problem...
Chaim's new Math 2033 is going like gangbusters! Check out the class wiki at math2033.uark.edu
Paul Nahin discusses his fabulous new book "Mrs Perkins Electric Quilt", mosquitos, falling through the Earth, whether mathematics is "real" and much more!
Clifford Pickover discusses his beautiful new Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics.
Stephen Morris rounds out his puzzles with a discussion of OLD IDAHO USUAL HERE.
Jetting around with Stephen Morris, who leaves us at a rare loss for words!
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!
Back after a sleepy summer, the Math Circus Opens 9/9/9!
Man, what is it about puzzlers and prisoners? Jeff Yoak lines em up and the stakes are high!
#mathfactor now on twitter; Jeff Yoak poses a hat puzzle stumper!
Jeff Yoak discusses math in his career as a poker pro.
Jeff Yoak, one of the mathfactor website authors, shares a puzzle with an intriguing twist!
Every number in a mysterious sequence is the weighted average of its neighbors...
A quick puzzle sent in by a listener! Very elegant solution, using a fair coin...
David Singmaster, Puzzler Extraordinaire, early master of the Rubik's Cube, poser of the Singmaster Conjecture, etc, etc, engages in some wordplay.
We express regret, answer a puzzle, shake hands and welcome back astronauts Arp and Bif.
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