DZ. Mind Control Across Time and Space!

May 29, 2008 · Favorites, The Mathcast, guests, math puzzles · Permalink

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Eric Demaine of MIT will control your minds across all time and all space!

Not surprisingly, we suppose, this trick is closely related to an important mathematical tool of the telecommunications industry:

Gray Codes are tremendously useful; a great, very readable discussion is in Chapter 2 of Martin Gardner’s Knotted Donuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments.

 
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