Wrong, But Useful

Wrong, But Useful: Episode 48


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In this month's episode of Wrong, But Useful, Colin and Dave are joined by @niveknosdunk, who is Professor Kevin Knudson in real life. Kevin, along with previous Special Guest Co-Host @evelynjlamb, has recently launched a podcast, My Favorite Theorem The number of the podcast is 12; Kevin introduces us to sublime numbers, highly composite numbers, and several other fascinating dozen-related facts. We rant about the whole 6÷2(1+2) thing hashtag fakemaths, and try to rescue it with a thread on the obelus. @divbyzero also has a post about the whole thing. "Obvious" things. Broken patterns: Fermat primes, primes of the form […]
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