Podcast for curious kids
Maths is Not Boring
The patterns behind everything, once you know how to look.
One great mathematical idea an episode - numbers that never end, shapes with only one side, the strange rules of chance, the patterns hiding in a snowflake. Nobody does sums here. Maths is not just a list of rules to learn; it is one of the most beautiful ways anyone has found of seeing the world.
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What is six degrees of separation?
Have you ever wondered how you might be connected to a baker in Peru or a fisherman in Japan? It sounds like magic, but it is actually math! In 1929, a Hungarian writer named Frigyes Karinthy came up with a wild idea: that every single person on Earth is…
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What are coordinates? 10:51 
How did Julius Caesar write secret messages? 10:13 
What is a Reuleaux polygon? 10:21 
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What is an even number? 12:18 
What is an algorithm? 9:17 
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What is base sixty? 10:05 
What is the Collatz conjecture? 9:47 
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