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Combinations and Permutations Episode 44: It’s All in Fun

On today’s episode Samuel Hansen plays host to Christopher Bates, Brandon Metz, and Anthony Sellari to talk about Recreational Mathematics and its God Martin Gardner.

Here are some links:
Martin Gardner
Recreational Mathematics
The Birthday Problem
Gathering for Gardner

Also here is a clip on the Monty Hall Problem from the TV show Numb3rs:

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Combinations and Permutations Episode 43: Mr. Math Teacher

On this, the 43rd episode of Combinations and Permutations Brandon Metz, Cody Palmer, and Samuel Hansen got together to record about an hour of surprisingly sincere and honest audio on mathematical teaching. Unlike most episode there is not a long list of links to wikipedia articles or pop culture minutiae to post here so instead I will leave you with two videos that were mentioned in the episode and the list of terrible teacher types.

First the List:
Mr. Looks-Only-At-the-Board
Mr. Engages-With-Only-a-Single-Person
Mr. Changes-Variables-While-Slamming-Markers-Into-the-Board-and_Erasing-Half-of-the-Work-Because-it-is-Really-Really-Wrong-and-Hands-Out-a-Ream-Worth-of-Wikipedia-Articles-as-Reference
Mr. Egotistical-the-Content-Doesn’t-Really-Matter-I’m-Only-Going-to-Talk-About-Myself

And now the videos:

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Combinations and Permutations Episode 42: The Miley Partition

On today’s episode Brandon Metz and Cody Palmer are the guests as your intrepid, and often abused host, Samuel Hansen does his best to try to make them talk about Partition Theory. Samuel soon sees it is hopeless and begins to sing.

Topics Discussed on the Episode include:
Partition Theory
Lagrange Four-Square Theorem
Polite Numbers
Goldbach Conjecture

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Combinations and Permutations Episode 41: Harmonic Plosives

This week on Combinations and Permutations your host Samuel Hansen managed to convince three guests, Christopher Bates, Brandon Metz, and Cody Palmer, to join him in his home office/studio to talk about the wonderful world of analysis. Here are some links to what they talked about:

Mathematical Analysis

Cauchy Sequences

A Pernicious Idea(C&P Episode 15)

Real Analysis(as opposed to Fake(Oops, I mean Complex)) Analysis

Analytic Functions

Harmonic Analysis

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Combinations and Permutations Episode 40: John Henry was Here

It has been quite a while since we have recorded, or released, anything but here we are with a new epsidoe of Combinations and Permutations. Your host Samuel Hansen is joined by Rob Schultz from notART and Better Radio, as well as regulars Nathan Rowe and Christopher Bates to talk about the problem with Searle.

Here is a quick set of links to what they discussed:

Chinese Room
John Searle
Turing Test
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
John Henry
Lederhosen

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