This episode is all about the forgotten mathematical tool of numbers. Ok, forgotten may be a bit strong, but after a certain point in mathematics numbers seem to lose a bit of their importance. For the first few years after you start to learn math it is all add these numbers, divide this number by that one, or find that number. And then it morphs into for all numbers or let x be an arbitrary number or for epsilon greater than zero and numbers start to lose their power.Well not on this episode. Samuel Hansen has found stories about amazing properties of numbers, how a person started collecting collections of numbers, how research can lead to a number horde which can then lead to more research, and all about favorite numbers.Listen to the Episode (download)Subscribe via iTunesSubscribe via RSSFollow ACMEScience on twitter, and Samuel Hansen too, for Updates on Relatively Prime, and our other shows Numbers Gossip:Tanya Khovanova is a freelance mathematician and mathematical entertainer cu
