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Season 2025
2025x1 The Frobenius Problem (and numerical semigroups) Episode overview
Air date
Jan 10, 2025
Featuring Professor David Eisenbud discussing numerical semigroups.
Also discussing Sylvester's Theorem, prime numbers and the Frobenius Number Problem.
Featuring Professor David Eisenbud discussing numerical semigroups.
Also discussing Sylvester's Theorem, prime numbers and the Frobenius Number Problem.
2025x2 The Snakey Hexomino (unsolved Tic-Tac-Toe problem) Episode overview
Air date
Jan 20, 2025
Sophie Maclean explains Animal Tic-Tac-Toe - and why the Snakey hexomino is the only "unsolved" creature.
Sophie Maclean explains Animal Tic-Tac-Toe - and why the Snakey hexomino is the only "unsolved" creature.
2025x3 The Slightly Bungled Mersenne Prime Origin Story Episode overview
Air date
Jan 26, 2025
Brady Haran is at the Royal Society looking at the book which resulted in the name "Mersenne Primes".
Brady Haran is at the Royal Society looking at the book which resulted in the name "Mersenne Primes".
Rob Eastaway looks at numbers, quirks, and codes (plus some conspiracy theories) in William Shakespeare's First Folio.
Including some interesting historical stuff about the use of .. show full overview
Rob Eastaway looks at numbers, quirks, and codes (plus some conspiracy theories) in William Shakespeare's First Folio.
Including some interesting historical stuff about the use of numbers in Shakespeare's plays, then some slightly wild conspiracy theories about Francis Bacon and codes in the text. And a bit about chronograms.
