The Math Factor

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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HR. CardColm

Colm Mulcahy joins us to share some of his card magic!

04-13

14:20

HQ. Newton v Leibnitz

A break from puzzling to discuss the history of the great Newton-Liebnitz dispute over the invention of Calculus, with the playwright Todd Taylor.

03-26

10:25

HP. Happy Root 10 Day

For procrastinators...

03-16

09:37

HO. Crazies On The Plane

Madness in the aisles...

03-09

06:32

HN. Barbette

The great aerialist Barbette makes an wholly gratuitous appearance on the Math Factor, and a few quick puzzles.

02-27

10:09

HM. Five Cards

Big math news, answers and a quick and easy puzzle.

02-17

11:46

HL. Bear Hunt

Kyle stumps Chaim, and we revisit a neat twist on an old chestnut

02-10

09:40

HK. Spiders and Fly

Another pursuit puzzle from the Math Factor

02-03

09:58

HJ. Strange Suitor

An odd marriage proposal...

01-27

07:11

Hi! Getting Closer

How close can we get to exactly one glass of water?

01-16

06:58

HH. Corpuscle Candy

Hot piles of M&M's!

01-11

11:46

HG. Two Love

Numbers, numbers numbers... hadn't noticed there are so many of them.

01-01

08:17

HF. True Love

In which Chaim ponders how much his true love loves him truly.

12-23

01:29

HE. On Cake and Coffee

In which we discuss the mystery of cooling coffee.

12-12

12:55

HD. The Math Factor Returns

And we're back in the studio together again! Lots of great stuff to come!

12-04

04:34

HC. Strongly Connected Components

Check out the Strongly Connected Components podcast at acmescience.com

07-14

33:20

HB. Puzzlers Pegg and Stephens

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.

04-09

39:10

HA! Conway on Gardner

John H. Conway on his friendship with Martin Gardner.

06-28

57:23

The Math Factor Takes a Bow

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!

05-09

01:32

GY. Conversation with Greg Chaitin

A conversation with Greg Chaitin, creator of Chaitin's Omega and author, most recently, of MetaMath!! These ideas are well worth a close listen.

04-05

01:02:19

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