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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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1Colm Mulcahy joins us to share some of his card magic!
A break from puzzling to discuss the history of the great Newton-Liebnitz dispute over the invention of Calculus, with the playwright Todd Taylor.
For procrastinators...
Madness in the aisles...
The great aerialist Barbette makes an wholly gratuitous appearance on the Math Factor, and a few quick puzzles.
Big math news, answers and a quick and easy puzzle.
Kyle stumps Chaim, and we revisit a neat twist on an old chestnut
Another pursuit puzzle from the Math Factor
An odd marriage proposal...
How close can we get to exactly one glass of water?
Hot piles of M&M's!
Numbers, numbers numbers... hadn't noticed there are so many of them.
In which Chaim ponders how much his true love loves him truly.
In which we discuss the mystery of cooling coffee.
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.
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