The Math Factor Podcast

Neil Sloane of ATT Labs shares some his favorite integer sequences from his online encyclopedia!

Recaman’s Sequence is especially perplexing! Sloane asks: does every number eventually appear?

(No one yet knows the answer!)

 

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Mathematics writer Barry Cipra shows us Tag Deal, a simple but perplexing puzzle with cards.

 

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We present a recording of Raymond Smullyan’s lecture at the Gathering for Gardner, March 30, 2008; Newcomb’s paradox really is a stumper.

 

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We catch up with Raymond Smullyan, author of many fantastic books on logic, puzzles and paradoxes at this year’s Gathering for Gardner!

 

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Frank Morgan chats about math and gives us the solution to his bubble puzzle. If you’re in the area, don’t miss his lecture, Thursday April 10, at 7:30 pm in POSC 211!

 

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Frank Morgan of Williams College asks “What is the shape of a double bubble?”

 

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photo: Jeff Bauer

We discuss, among other things, whether all mathematicians are liars.

Send us your favorite paradoxes of this kind and we’ll report back on April 15.

 

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Burger answers his puzzle and tells us more…

 

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Prof Ed Burger of Williams College discusses the mathematics of proofs and puzzles, and a problem with his pants.

 

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We catch Ed Pegg, puzzler extraordinaire , as he is going over a script for the TV show Numb3rs.

 

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