Odds and Evenings
Playing around with maths and puzzles was something that the two hosts spent their time at university doing together. Now in their late twenties with proper grown up jobs, Alaric and Alex carve out the occasional evening to sit back and smell the numbers. Not all of the mathematics is entry level, but they envisioned this podcast for those people whose science degrees may be long behind them, but who still get a kick out of recreational numbering.
If this is your first time listening, episode 4 (http://www.oddsandevenings.com/4) is a good representation of the show as a whole and can be used as a jumping on point.
All episodes can be played in browser here (http://www.oddsandevenings.com/episodes) or you can subscribe on all major podcast apps (http://www.oddsandevenings.com/subscribe).
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 33
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2020
#32 - Quiz Shows, Queues and Quavers
The boys return to think about the structure of a quiz show round, they learn how to queue effectively and they investigate the best tunings for guitars.
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#31 - Cards, Competitions and Celebrations (w/ Matthew Scroggs)
The boys are in the same room, and they have a guest! They talk about an awful tennis tournament mixup, a teeny tiny card game and the primest day of the year.
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#30 - Delta-Y, Diversity and Dynamics
The boys sit down with an infinite box of resistors, worry just how diverse their business is and think through the peculiar physics of balloons.
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Mini Episode: Bidding Game
Here's something a little different. Over at Aperiodical they are running the Big Internet Math Off 2019, where 16 mathematicians present pitches to compete in a tournament. We were very pleased to b…
#29 - Pyramids, Pitches and Pumps
The boys are back for season two! They try ramping Pascal's Triangle up a couple of dimensions, consider the physics of how we control volume and attempt to help out someone with a fishy problem.
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#28 - Rugby, Rolling and Robots
The boys help organise a rugby training scheme, set robots upon an infinite hotel and discover some lovely patterns in the probability of Snakes and Ladders.
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#27 - Strangers, Scaling and Scores
The boys partake unto an unwavering curiousity as to who is friends with whom. Infinite-dimensional animals are discussed, and they ponder the potentially undue rewards of chess pros.
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#26 - Geometry, Goblins and Getting to Pubs
The boys find themselves on the wrong side of the mathematical orthodoxy, rejecting the concepts of distance and angles, before immediately forgetting about that and using distances and angles to sol…
#25 - Codes, Coins and Criss-Crosses
Here's a copy of the puzzle that Alaric wrote for the conference: Chyptic Chossword
The boys play games, join a secret circle and put up the Christmas lights :)
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#24 - Shamir's, Sums and Seatings
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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#23 - Ants, Arcs and Awkward Patterns
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…
#22 - Pandemics, Padovan’s and Pumpkins
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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#21 - Torque, Truth and Time Signatures
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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#20 - Tangles, Twists and Trots
The boys design algorithms to generate puzzles on graphs, spiral out into some polar coordinate calculus and gallop their way through some juggling notation.
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#19 - Probability, Pubs and Power
The boys delve into some stats and game theory problems, ending with a classic from Conway.
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#18 - Pads, Plato and Pirates
The boys move seemlessly between high philosophy and pirate jokes in this eclectic episode.
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#17 - Caps, Cracks and Kaprekar's Constants
The boys try their hands at problems provided by the listeners in today's special episode.
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#16 - Algorithms, Adding and Adders
The boys both have problems which involve complicating the process of adding. Also snakes.
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#15 - Sofas, Secrets and Sizzling String
The boys both choose to take a medley of problems on the same theme, then solve a puzzle ridiculously quickly.
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#14 - Guesses, Geometry and Grover's Algorithm
The boys go on serious diversions. Alex fails to use a computer properly.
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