A contestant for our Million-Dollar-Give-Away sent in Rayo’s Number, hitherto the largest number ever used for any real purpose: to wit, winning the
Check out the article by Scot Aaronson that inspired them to duke it out! And this thread on the math forum is quite interesting as well.
We discuss the results of the fabulous Math Factor Million Dollar Giveaway. and confess this was an excuse to bring up Game Theory and how to talk about really big numbers.
Dennis Shasha, author of the “Puzzler's Elusion” gives us a new puzzle.
Jeff Weeks, author of “The Shape of Space”, discusses the hypersphere and the famous Poincaré Conjecture!
Join Chaim and Kyle at Bamboopalooza 3! Octahedral pencil holders, giant 12 pointed bamboo stars, pig lighters and other mathematical oddments were enjoyed by all! Read the rest of this entry »
Is this podcast legally a “munition”? Old ideas in number theory are the basis for a whole new class of powerful encryption schemes that underlie the modern internet economy.
We just use the tools we discussed in the last couple of weeks, in a new way.
We answer last week's puzzle and Peter Winkler asks how to send a ring through the land of the kleptomaniacs.
Is a man of perfectly average height, and perfectly average weight, too heavy for his size? Averages are not what they seem to be.
Are there more fractions than counting numbers?
Finer and finer, a ruler with infinitely many marks…
We answer last week’s puzzle, discuss rational and irrational numbers, and pose a little question about coins.
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