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On this month&#8217;s episode of Relatively Prime Samuel Hansen speaks with <a href="http://math.pugetsound.edu/~mspivey/">Professor Mike Spivey</a> from University of Puget Sound about his interactive fiction game <a href="https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=y9y7jozi0l76bb82">A Beauty Cold and Austere</a>. They discuss how interactive fiction and mathematics work together, some of the mathematical puzzles in the game, and just what easter eggs might be hiding within the game.



You can <a href="https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=y9y7jozi0l76bb82">play A Beauty Cold and Austere here</a>.



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<a href="http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/673510544-acmescience-a-beauty-cold-and-austere.mp3">Download the Episode</a>



Music: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sepgil/dreamy">Sepgil</a> <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Slam_Funk/Broke_For_Free_-_Slam_Funk_-_06_High_School_Snaps">Broke for Free</a>



A Beauty Cold and Austere Voiceover: Bree Prehn <a href="https://ktsbookshelf.wordpress.com/">KT Howard</a>

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A mathematics podcast from ACMEScience featuring the best math stories from the world of maths