Odds and Evenings - Episodes Tagged with “Numbers”

#24 - Shamir's, Sums and Seatings

Odds and Evenings — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 00:45:00 +0000

The boys celebrate a year of the podcast, try to get a hold on some of the weirder polygonal numbers and debrief after big maths jam.

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Topics discussed

Trapezium Numbers
Shamir's Shared Secrets
Vampire and Werewolf Lies

Show Notes

Catriona Shearer's Geometry Puzzles on Twitter
Mathigon's Tweet about Trapezium Numbers
An Article on Properties of Trapezium Numbers
Alaric's Lock Gates Article
A Good Quality Shamir's Shared Secrets Article
The Vampire and Werewolf MAT Question
The Answers to the MAT Question

Credits

Hosted By
Alaric - http://alaricstephen.com
Alex - http://twitter.com/speakmouthwords

Editing by Alex
Silver Service at the Vampire-Werewolf Symposium by Alaric

Theme music by David Russell - https://youtube.com/DavidRussell323

#23 - Ants, Arcs and Awkward Patterns

Odds and Evenings — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 01:15:00 +0000

The boys get to the bottom of a neat pattern that suddenly breaks, contort their limbs into strange shapes in the name of Plato and attempt a very satisfying problem involving some spiders and an ant.

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Topics discussed

Factorial Terminating Digits
Making Polyhedra with your Limbs
Spiders and an Ant Pursuit Puzzle

Show Notes

Nice PDF of the Solution to the Partitions Problem by André Malraux
Alaric's Puzzle from the Conference
Platonic Solids to Stare at during Sections 2 and 3 of the Show

Credits

Hosted By
Alaric - http://alaricstephen.com
Alex - http://twitter.com/speakmouthwords

Editing by Alex
Fervent attempts to keep on top of responding to emails for the show by Alaric

Theme music by David Russell - https://youtube.com/DavidRussell323

#22 - Pandemics, Padovan’s and Pumpkins

Odds and Evenings — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 02:00:00 +0000

The boys get as spooky as they can with cellular automata, have a maths conversation about maths conversations and can't get past the fact that Brunnian and Borromean sound too similar.

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Topics discussed

Zombies and Vampires
The Maths of Conversations
Brunnian Pumpkin Carving

Show Notes

Editing by Alex
Following of the brief: bring halloween problems by Alaric

Theme music by David Russell - https://youtube.com/DavidRussell323

#21 - Torque, Truth and Time Signatures

Odds and Evenings — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 03:00:00 +0100

The boys settle a dicussion about a bike that Alaric has been aching to talk about for a fortnight, Alex finally brings up music and then they both dive down the Gödel rabbit hole with some puzzles.

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Topics discussed

Bike Pedals
Time Signatures
Taking an Offer Puzzles

Show Notes

Follow Up

Visualisation of the Codepad Solution from Tom Verduyn
Maths Jam Annual Gathering Page
The Shade (Alex's New Podcast)

Maths From the Show

Visuals of the Two Cycloids Mentioned: Prolate and Curtate
Video of the Bike Moving
Unusual Time Signatures
Forever Undecided: A Puzzle Guide to Gödel The book I talk about in the third part of the show. It's great.
The Gödel Sentence on Wikipedia (Related to the puzzle)

Credits

Hosted By
Alaric - http://alaricstephen.com
Alex - http://twitter.com/speakmouthwords

Editing by Alex
Incomplete knowledge of incompleteness theorems by Alaric

Theme music by David Russell - https://youtube.com/DavidRussell323

#12 - Ducks, Deals and Doku

Odds and Evenings — Sun, 06 May 2018 23:00:00 +0100

The boys shout about Texans and prove they've solved something but they won't tell you how.

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Topics discussed

Email Bidding Game
Zero Knowledge Sudoku
Duck Pond Probabilities

Show Notes

Email Bidding Game
Duck Pond Problem with pictures
The Hardest Problem on The Hardest Test by 3Blue1Brown

Credits

Hosted By
Alaric - http://alaricstephen.com
Alex - http://twitter.com/speakmouthwords

Edited by Alex
Ominous apocalyptic hum by Alaric

Theme music by David Russell - https://youtube.com/DavidRussell323

#10 - Stacks, Splitting and Seating

Odds and Evenings — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 01:45:00 +0100

The boys have been playing computer games and have each found maths in the machine.

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Topics discussed

Minecraft Grid Numbers
Stack Thirding
Plane Seat Puzzle

Show Notes

A Good Analysis of the Actual Maths of the Plane Seat Problem
Images of Our Various 1-ln2 Proofs On Twitter
Thomas Veness' Solutions to the Scrabble Permutations:
['ait', 'tai', 'ita']
['ary', 'yar', 'rya']
['ash', 'has', 'sha']
['ask', 'kas', 'ska']
['asp', 'pas', 'spa']
['ate', 'eat', 'tea']
['chi', 'ich', 'hic']
['dso', 'ods', 'sod']
['eat', 'tea', 'ate']
['een', 'nee', 'ene']
['eth', 'het', 'the']
['hic', 'chi', 'ich']
['hoo', 'oho', 'ooh']
['ich', 'hic', 'chi']
['kas', 'ska', 'ask']
['noo', 'ono', 'oon']
['zzz', 'zzz', 'zzz']
['nala', 'anal', 'lana', 'alan']
['nana', 'anan', 'nana', 'anan']
['sese', 'eses', 'sese', 'eses']

Credits

Hosted By
Alaric - http://alaricstephen.com
Alex - http://twitter.com/speakmouthwords

Edited by Alex
Genuine mathematical rigour by Alaric

Theme music by David Russell - https://youtube.com/DavidRussell323

#9 - Cows, Counting and Chin Ups

Odds and Evenings — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:30:00 +0100

In a special face to face edition of the podcast the boys stumble over a sequence involving cows, look at number systems in other languages and try to optimise Alaric's regime for loading and unloading a barbell.