EPISODE 139 | A Numbers Game: Mathspiracies
Guest: Gary Arndt, writer and host of the Everything Everywhere Daily podcast
We aren't really very good with numbers, so naturally we've come up with a lot of wacky ideas about them. Gary Arndt talks about numbers of all sorts, like why Pi is stupid, why prime numbers are cool, why the Fibonacci sequence isn't all that, when math leads to murder and much more.
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SECTIONS

02:25 - Numeracy rates, gambling is (usually) a sucker's bet, numerology, the Bible Code, p-hacking, Equidistant Letter Sequencing (ELS)
13:09 - The Hidden Hand of Mathematics, the Ultraviolet Catastrophe and the birth of quantum physics, the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio
20:05 - Pi, tau, the Cult of Pythagoras, irrational numbers, transcendental numbers, squaring the circle, Alex Jones and math, the real number of the Beast
28:51 - Why people believe conspiracy theories
30:13 - Angel numbers, the "meanings" of numbers
33:43 - Numbers stations
37:25 - Prime numbers, Prime Target TV series, trapdoor functions in cryptography, Al-Khwarizmi, double entry bookkeeping, the idea of zero, zero and null are different
43:20 - Base-10, base-12, base-60, and our timekeeping and calendar systems


Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

Everything Everywhere Daily podcast
The Bible Code book review in Notices of the AMS
The Significance of The Number Forty-Two (42) by By Rabbi Dr. Hillel ben David (Greg Killian)
Magic Apologetics: Equidistant Letter Sequencing in the Christian Research Journal
Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick!
THE UNREASONABLE EFFECTIVENSS OF MATHEMATICS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES by Eugene Wigner
The Ultraviolet Catastrophe and the Creation of Quantum Mechanics episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
What is the Fibonacci sequence? on LiveScience
Fibonacci Sequence on Math Is Fun
Composing Balanced Images: The Golden Ratio on ProGrade Digital
Everything You Need to Know About Pi episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Why Tau Should Replace Pi episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
The Cult of Pythagoras episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Irrational Numbers episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Squaring the Circle episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
e: Euler’s Number episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Pi Is Encoded in the Patterns of Life
Alex Jones and 666 video
A Guide to Angel Numbers and What They Mean
Numerology Numbers 1-9: Exploring the single digit numbers in Numerology on Numerology.com
Numbers Stations episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Number Stations on Priyom.org
Number Station Recordings - Creepy radio broadcasts from unknown origins (video with over 4 hours of recordings)
All About Cryptography episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Prime Numbers episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Prime Target TV series on IMDb
Zero, My Hero episode of Everything Everywhere Daily
Zero and NULL values 
What is the Base-10 Number System?
Base 12: An Introduction
Babylonian Mathematics and the Base 60 System

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