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Professor Christopher R. H. Hanusa (Queens College of the City University of New York) interviews fellow mathematicians and student researchers about their research in combinatorics. Guests present c... more
FAQs about The MathZorro Podcast:How many episodes does The MathZorro Podcast have?The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.
July 15, 2015Card CollectingRay Chin discusses his childhood hobby involving card collecting. (Cards such as Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic the Gathering, Baseball cards, etc.) He asks the question "In how many ways can you collect a full set of 10 cards when every deck you buy contains five random cards each?". This research was conducted during Fall 2014 in Professor Hanusa's Combinatorics class at Queens College of the City University of New York....more10minPlay
July 15, 2015Chess Piece PlacementsCandice Sands and Gaitrie Sackichand ask the question "In how many ways can you place two chess pieces on a chessboard so that they don't attack one another?". They investigate the king, rook, bishop, queen, and nightrider. Part of the interview is a discussion of teamwork in research. This research was conducted during Fall 2014 in Professor Hanusa's Combinatorics class at Queens College of the City University of New York....more12minPlay
July 15, 2015Chevron TilingsVarindra Hart counts square and domino tilings of a region composed of nested chevrons. Includes a surprise appearance by the square root of 17. This research was conducted during Fall 2014 in Professor Hanusa's Combinatorics class at Queens College of the City University of New York....more15minPlay
July 15, 2015NurikabeNikki investigates her favorite puzzle game Nurikabe, and asks how many 4x4 solvable Nurikabe boards exist. This research was conducted during Fall 2014 in Professor Hanusa's Combinatorics class at Queens College of the City University of New York....more9minPlay
July 15, 2015Lattice PathsJan Bazant asks the question "How many lattice paths are there from (0,0) to (m,n) where each step can be North, East, or West?". He addresses the trials he faced throughout his research. This research was conducted during Fall 2014 in Professor Hanusa's Combinatorics class at Queens College of the City University of New York....more7minPlay
July 15, 2015BasketballSeung Park asks "In how many ways can the New York Knicks shoot the basketball?". He explains how he uses generating functions to answer this question. This research was conducted during Fall 2014 in Professor Hanusa's Combinatorics class at Queens College of the City University of New York....more10minPlay
July 15, 2015DominosaConnie Durso and Davida investigate the game Dominosa. They count the number of possible ways to place dominoes on boards of different sizes before researching the number of possible valid Dominosa boards. This research was conducted during Fall 2014 in Professor Hanusa's Combinatorics class at Queens College of the City University of New York....more20minPlay
July 15, 2015Cycle GraphsAnnette Paciorek investigates graphs that have the same degree sequence, focusing mainly on cycle graphs and when one additional edge is added. This research was conducted during Fall 2014 in Professor Hanusa's Combinatorics class at Queens College of the City University of New York....more11minPlay
July 15, 2015MonopolyAlex Yaroslavskiy likes board games and focused his research on the classic game Monopoly. He counts the number of ways to land on Boardwalk before passing Go and without landing in jail. This research was conducted during Fall 2014 in Professor Hanusa's Combinatorics class at Queens College of the City University of New York....more9minPlay
July 15, 2015TrianglesShao Xin is interested in polygons with integer vertex coordinates. He counts the number of triangles that have vertices somewhere on an nxn square grid. This research was conducted during Fall 2014 in Professor Hanusa's Combinatorics class at Queens College of the City University of New York....more12minPlay
FAQs about The MathZorro Podcast:How many episodes does The MathZorro Podcast have?The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.