Colm Mulcahy joins us to share some of his card magic!

HR. CardColm

A break from puzzling to discuss the history of the great Newton-Liebnitz dispute over the invention of Calculus, with the playwright Todd Taylor.

HQ. Newton v Leibnitz

HP. Happy Root 10 Day

HO. Crazies On The Plane

The great aerialist Barbette makes an wholly gratuitous appearance on the Math Factor, and a few quick puzzles.

HN. Barbette

Big math news, answers and a quick and easy puzzle.

HM. Five Cards

Kyle stumps Chaim, and we revisit a neat twist on an old chestnut

HL. Bear Hunt

Another pursuit puzzle from the Math Factor

HK. Spiders and Fly

HJ. Strange Suitor

How close can we get to exactly one glass of water?

Hi! Getting Closer

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!

Accessible math without the lectures.  Only the fun challenging stuff - none of the tedium. THANKS

Awesome & approachable

awesome!!! should be changed to a twice weekly show

awesome!

 The Math Factor

We express regret, answer a puzzle, shake hands and welcome back astronauts Arp and Bif.

FU. Arp and Bif Shake Hands

This puzzle has us stumped! How do you escape this diabolical trap?

BR. We Don't Know the Way Out!

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and author of A New Kind of Science describes a fundamental principle, showing how irreducible complexity arises even in simple systems.

GW. Wolfram's Principle of Computational Equivalence

Are there only half as many even numbers as counting numbers?

AD. Bigger and Smaller Infinities

Isaac Newton's puzzling polynomial problem!

EW: What's The Difference?

If I give you a number, can you always find another number whose sum and product with my number are the same?

FL. Algebra on the Radio

John H. Conway on his friendship with Martin Gardner.

HA! Conway on Gardner

If you're gonna commit accounting fraud, some things to watch out for! Benford's law is an amazing property of many kinds of lists of data.

GN. Benford's Law

Math Factor Number Four; how much water is required to get across the desert? (This is basically the same problem as BK. Bananas and Rockets)

FC. Cool Clear Water

Derrick Niederman tells us what is so un-22 about Catch 22, and other marvels from his new book, Number Freak.

GU. Number Freak

In which we discuss the Fibonacci numbers, the law of small numbers, and just why one should expect to see the golden ratio so often.

EL. The Law of Small Numbers

In which we discuss the mystery of cooling coffee.

HE. On Cake and Coffee

Our Fifth Anniversary Special! Come visit our brand new, totally fair casino!

EY. Vth Anniversary Special

Jeff Weeks, author of "The Shape of Space", discusses the hypersphere and the famous Poincaré Conjecture!

BH. The Poincaré Conjecture

We discuss a neat trick involving powers, mod a pair of primes.

BD. Magic Numbers

Michael Huber solves the 12 Labors of Hercules!

GK. Mythematics

GQ. Durned Ants

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Best Multi-Part Documentaries

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