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

Also be sure to send samuel (at) acmescience.com an email describing your ideal math descendant orgy, follow acmescience on twitter for more information about C&P, and please leave us an iTunes review(we will even make sure you are mentioned on the show).

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Strongly Connected Components Episode 28: Rebecca Goldin

(via http://math.gmu.edu/)

For today’s Strongly Connected Components Samuel Hansen was joined by Professor Rebecca Golding of George Mason Universty and the Director of Research for STATS. They discussed just what got her into mathematics, her work with STATS, and Samuel asked some very clichéd questions to which she responded with wonderfully unclichéd answers. To find out more about Professor Goldin please check out her website or visit STATS.

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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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Strongly Connected Components Episode 27: David Spiegelhalter

via http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/

On today’s episode of Strongly Connected Components Samuel Hansen called up the Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk, as well as Senior Scientist in the MRC Biostatistics Unit, David Spiegelhalter. They discussed the true meaning of risk, the importance of the Bayesian Method, how to get a lot of citations, and even a bit about the bookies. To find out more about Professor Spiegelhalter check out his website, look at his stained glass work, or watch him in the below video as Professor Risk.

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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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