The Math Factor

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!

Episodes

April 13, 2012 14 mins
Colm Mulcahy joins us to share some of his card magic!
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A break from puzzling to discuss the history of the great Newton-Liebnitz dispute over the invention of Calculus, with the playwright Todd Taylor.
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March 16, 2012 9 mins
For procrastinators...
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March 9, 2012 6 mins
Madness in the aisles...
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February 27, 2012 10 mins
The great aerialist Barbette makes an wholly gratuitous appearance on the Math Factor, and a few quick puzzles.
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February 17, 2012 11 mins
Big math news, answers and a quick and easy puzzle.
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February 10, 2012 9 mins
Kyle stumps Chaim, and we revisit a neat twist on an old chestnut
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February 3, 2012 9 mins
Another pursuit puzzle from the Math Factor
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January 27, 2012 7 mins
An odd marriage proposal...
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January 16, 2012 6 mins
How close can we get to exactly one glass of water?
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January 11, 2012 11 mins
Hot piles of M&M's!
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January 1, 2012 8 mins
Numbers, numbers numbers... hadn't noticed there are so many of them.
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December 23, 2011 1 min
In which Chaim ponders how much his true love loves him truly.
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December 12, 2011 12 mins
In which we discuss the mystery of cooling coffee.
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December 4, 2011 4 mins
And we're back in the studio together again! Lots of great stuff to come!
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July 14, 2011 33 mins
Check out the Strongly Connected Components podcast at acmescience.com
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April 9, 2011 39 mins
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.
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June 28, 2010 57 mins
John H. Conway on his friendship with Martin Gardner.
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May 9, 2010 1 min
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!
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April 5, 2010 62 mins
A conversation with Greg Chaitin, creator of Chaitin's Omega and author, most recently, of MetaMath!! These ideas are well worth a close listen.
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