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Thomas E. Woolley, Ben M. Parker, The Wonderful Liz

Winning at Maths. Losing at Life.

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Watch along with MATM: pi

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2017/11/11

Apple? Cherry? Raspberry? Unfortunately, none of these. This Friday we'll be releasing our pi podcast. Darren Aronofsky's surreal, disturbing, art house, pretentious, feature debut about the descent into insanity of the Jewish Mathematician Max Cohen. One of the reasons Thomas started this podcast was to talk about this film and to ensure that everyone hated it as much as him. We don't recommend it, but if you want to watch along with us then can buy a digital version of the film through

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Puzzle from The Imitation Game

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2017/11/10

At the end of Maths at: the Movies, The Imitation Game Ben presented the following question I have two children. One of them is a boy and they were born on a Tuesday. What is the probability that both children are boys? Now, unfortunately, Ben royally screws up the explanation of this answer in the next podcast. However, we are recording an appendix episode to put the world to rights. In the mean time though we can solve the slightly simpler puzzle: I have two children. One of them is a

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Puzzle from The Man Who Knew Infinity

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2017/11/09

At the end of Maths at: the Movies, The Man Who Knew Infinity Thomas posed two teasers to you. A simple one to start you off. I buy a bottle and a cork for £1.10. The bottle costs £1 more than the cork. How much does the cork cost? And a more difficult one for you to chew on that was apparently given to Ramanujan himself. I live on a street with more than one house. All the houses on this street are numbered consecutively, 1, 2, 3,..., etc. Amazingly, I live in the house such that if you

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Puzzle from Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land

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2017/11/08

During Maths at: the Movies, Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land Ben presented the following conundrum. Until recently my greengrocer sold apples in multiples of 40kg. The apples are weighed out using an old set of balance scales and a 40kg weight (see the above picture). However, the greengrocer dropped their weight and it broke into four pieces weighing four different integer values. Just before the greengrocer threw the pieces away I stopped them and showed that the set of four smaller weights

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Maths at the Movies: The Imitation Game plus SPECIAL...

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2017/11/03

In this episode we watch the movie The Imitation Game. Alongside your regular team of Thomas, Ben and Liz there was only one mathematician with the expertise who could take us through this movie with grace, wit and wisdom. And that mathematician wasn't available so we got Dr James Grimes instead. Join us for episode five of Maths at: The Movies as we separate fact from fiction about the life of Alan Turing. If you're interested in watchingThe Imitation Game you can follow the

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Watch along with MATM: The Imitation Game and SPECIAL...

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2017/10/30

This Friday, we will be watching Banister Crumblebench starring in The Imitation Game. The film follows the life of monumental mathematician Alan Turing and his work on cracking the Enigma code during World War II. The mathematical genius Alan Turing and marvellous actor Bumblesnuff Crimpysnitch. Joining your regular team of Liz, Ben and Thomas will be a SPECIAL GUEST mathematician. Who could it be? Is it Bodysnatch Cummerbund? Is it Buffalo Custardbath? Is it Bundleup

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Friday Factoid: There are 451 unique ways to make up...

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2017/10/26

During The Man who knew Infinity I mentioned an interesting problem: How many ways were there of making coins add up to the value of 50p? In the UK, we have coins of value 1,2,5,10,20,50,100, and 200. To get them to add up to 50, we can have three 10p pieces plus one 20p. Or we could have 25 tuppences (2p pieces). Or many other combinations. I got this problem via a phone call from a friend of mine who said that their grandchild had been sent home from school with a challenge. I was in the

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Loop de loop patterns

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2017/10/23

During The Man Who Knew Infinity, Thomas produced a picture for Liz based on a random set of numbers taken from Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land. The picture was a Loop de Loop pattern. The idea is that you consider a moving pointer, known as a "turtle". The turtle is given instructions to move around and the picture is made up of the turtle's track history. The set of rules that the turtle follows is: the turtle moves along in a straight line a given distance. Here, the random numbers

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Maths at the Movies: The Man Who Knew Infinity

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2017/10/20

In this episode we watch the movieThe Man Who Knew Infinity. And in this episode we learn that we shouldn't be mean to Dev Patel. You can admire Jeremy Iron's subtle performance of introversion; You can wonder if maths is like Jazz; You can even question whether Ramanujan really was as brilliant as he was claimed to be. You can do all of this... as long as you're not mean to Dev Patel. Join us for episode four of Maths at: The Movies as we delve deep into the biopic of Srinivasa

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Watch along with MATM

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2017/10/17

Coming this Friday Maths at: The Movies reviews The Man Who Knew Infinity, the biopic of the incredible genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan. As you will not doubt have noticed, maths films bring in the acting powerhouses: Kevin Spacey, Gwyneth Paltrow,... Donald Duck! This film is no different. Between Dev Patel's puppy dog eyes and Jeremy Irons' introversion this film has some interesting, sad and poignant moments. Why not watch along with us? You can buy a digital version of the film by

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Answer to "Seven Gold Rings"

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2017/10/16

In our "Proof" podcast, we set the following puzzle: Tom employs a labourer, who is going to work for him for seven days. Every day the labourer wants to be paid one gold ring for each day they have worked. So at the end of the week they should leave with seven gold rings. Tom has a chain with seven gold links, but cannot simply give the laborourer all seven links, because the labourer wouldn't return. Equally, the labourer wants to ensure that they leave every day with as many gold

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Maths at the Movies: Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land

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2017/10/06

In this episode we watch the movieDonald Duck in Mathmagic Land. Well, this was just weird. Although the animation is beautiful, can you trust the company that told you that lemmings were suicidal to teach you mathematics? Also we cover Donald Duck's terrible gun control and the billiards game that goes on forever! Plus bees that make jam. If you're interested in watching Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land, you can follow the Amazon link below. Further reading links: coloured honey from

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So, how old is Ben?

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2017/10/04

If you remember, at the end of Maths at: the Movies, 21, we asked you how old is Ben on his next Birthday, if he is currently 50 years, 50 Months, 50 Weeks, 50 Days, and 50 Hours old? The best way to answer this question is to start with the hours and convert them to days, i.e. 50 hours = 2 days 2 hours. Then convert the 52 days into weeks, 52 days = 7 weeks 3 days, and so on. Following this process you should discover that Ben is currently 55 years old and, thus, will be 56 on his next

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Next up - Maths with Donald Duck!

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2017/10/02

There can be few more celebrated, more acclaimed, more accomplished mathematicians than Donald Duck. For our next podcast "Maths at: The Movies" we're going to Mathmagic land with everybody's favourite Disney duck.... and you can watch this for free on YouTube. Our podcast will be out later in the week, but tell us what youthink in the comments below! Quack quack!

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Puzzle from Proof: Seven Gold Rings

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2017/09/26

In our latest podcast about the movie "Proof", we set the following puzzle: Tom employs a labourer, who is going to work for him for seven days. Every day he wants to pay the labourer one gold ring for each day they have worked. Unfortunately Tom is a strange person who keeps his gold in the form of a chain with seven gold links, and a miser who doesn't like wasting gold. What is the minimum number of links that Tom must cut in order to make sure the labourer can always leave with the

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Maths at the Movies: Proof

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2017/09/22

In this episode we watch the movie Proof. Did Gwyneth Paltrow really prove the theorem? What theorem was she trying to prove? How many vaginas does a Time Lord have? All these questions and more are discussed in this weeks Maths at the Movies. If you're interested in watching Proof you can follow the Amazon link below. Further reading links: more about the amazing life of Sophie Germain; who was Erdos?; calculate your Erdos number; what are prime numbers good for?; the ideas behind the

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MATM Appendix: Who the hell are we?

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2017/09/20

You've listened to us talk, but what are our credentials? What do we know? What are our backgrounds? When should you take our "facts" at face value and when should you call bullshit? Join us in this appendix to better understand your hosts. Further reading links: you can see this earlier blog post about us; Thomas E. Woolley's home page; Ben M. Parkers' profile; more about Liz. Subscribe via ITunes.

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Want to join in on the fun?

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2017/09/19

Our next "Maths at: The Movies" podcast will be appearing soon, and this week we chat about the movie "Proof", starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins. The podcast talks about the concept of proof, certainty, and how to behave at a funeral. We had great fun watching and discussing it, if you want to watch along with us, you can rent or download the movie now by clicking the image below.

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Puzzle from 21: How old will Ben be on his next...

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2017/09/18

Here's the puzzle from the first episode of the podcast, Maths at: the Movies, 21, where we learnt that mathematicians like Fibonacci Birthday cakes. However, here's the question for this week. Comment below, or send your answer to podcastmaths@gmail.com, tweet us @podcastmaths, find us on facebook,to receive a shout-out on a future podcast and a warm fuzzy glow. "Ben is currently 50 years, 50 Months, 50 Weeks, 50 Days, and 50 Hours old. How old will he be on his next birthday?" (Ben would like

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Maths at the Movies: 21

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2017/09/12

In our first ever episode we watch the movie 21. This film has it all: racism, sexism, disableism... and a smattering of mathematics. Join us as we peel back the layers of gambling and card counting to reveal why you should never keep your money in your ceiling and why you'll never be as good a mathematician as Kevin Spacey. If you're interested in watching 21 you can follow the Amazon link below. Further reading links: more than you could ever want to know about the Fibonacci

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