Archive for July, 2008

EF. Visions of Symmetry

July 30, 2008 · Favorites, Topology and geometry, guests

 
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M.C. Escher expert Doris Schattschneider, author of Visions of Symmetry, sits down with us in Leeuwarden Friesland, Escher’s boyhood hometown, to discuss his life and work.

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EE. Tossem Beaver

July 21, 2008 · The Mathcast, guests, math puzzles, numbers

 
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Mathemagician Art Benjamin explains some of the tricks of his trade!

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ED. Mathemagican Art Benjamin

July 9, 2008 · Favorites, The Mathcast, guests, math puzzles, numbers

 
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Art Benjamin, mathemagician at Harvey Mudd, staggers, astounds and entertains!

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Follow Up: The Busy Beaver Function

July 5, 2008 · Follow Up

Why can there be no computable bound to the Busy Beaver Function?

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EC. Skyrocketing Functions!

July 1, 2008 · The Mathcast, logic, numbers, paradoxes

 
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Faster than an exponential! More powerful than double factorials!! The Busy Beaver Function tops anything that could ever be computed– and we mean ever

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