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Combinations and Permutations Episode 61: It’s all in the Family

Your intrepid host Samuel Hansen is joined on today’s Combinations and Permutation by Cody Palmer and Bradon Metz to talk about the most prolific mathematical family of all time, the Bernoulli’s.

Here are some links to the topics we covered:
Bernoulli Family Tree
Jacob
Johann
Nicolaus I
Nicolaus II
Daniel
Johann II
Johan III
Jacob II
Herman Hesse

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Combinations and Permutations Episode 60: A Big Question Mark

On today’s episode of Combinations and Permutations Samuel Hansen, your intrepid host, was joined by official beard owner Cody Palmer and newbie Sean Breckling to have a little chat about functions and their graphs. Covering things from critical points to asymptotes this episode ends on a great big question mark.

Topics covered:

Functions
Graph of a Function
Critical Points
Asymptotes
List of Functions

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Combinations and Permutations Episode 59: The Brute Force Method

Samuel Hansen was joined by Brandon Metz, Cody Palmer, Kevin Benton, and Juan Mariscal to have a discussion about effective methods described with well-defined instructions; yes they talked about Algorithms. Before they talked algorithms though they had a discussion about the contents of the first Combinations and Permutations book, a project suggested by @faircall, the book will ahve the following chapters:

Chapter 1: Newton was an Asshole
Chapter 2: Fuck Complex
Chapter 3: Hairy Balls
Chapter 4: Assume Not(Alternative Proof Methods)
Chapter 5: Table of Contents/Index
Chapter 6: Autobiography of Samuel Hansen
Chapter 7: Cody’s Biography of Samuel Hansen
Chapter 8: Brandon’s Biography of Samuel Hansen
Chapter 9: Juan’s Biography of Samuel Hansen
Chapter 10: Kevin’s Biography of Samuel Hansen
Hope you enjoy the book!

Topics Discussed:

Algorithms
Algorism
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
List of Algorithms

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Combinations and Permutations Episode 58: No Pants

via http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/poincare/poincare.html

Today’s episode of Combinations and Permutations features Cody Palmer, Brandon Metz, and your intrepid host Samuel Hansen discussing the many faces, look a pun, of tesselations.

Topics Covered:

Tesselations

Regular Tilings

Penrose Tiling

Hyperbolic Tesselations

MC Escher

Escher Tesselations

via http://www.ancienttreasuresusa.com
via http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/jbtess104.htm

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