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The first episode of Relatively Prime, The Toolbox, has now been released. You can grab it at 

http://relprime.com/thetoolbox/

It features interviews with Steven Brams, David Spiegelhalter, Matt Parker, and Edmund Harriss. From the episode description. 

The mathematics that we all learn in school is great. No, really, it is. How can anyone get through life without knowing how to add or subtract. Multiply or divide. Solve for an unknown or factor a polynomial. OK, you might be able to get through life without that last one, but the point still stands, the mathematics that we all learn in school is great. It isn’t everything though. There are a lot of other tools that mathematics has to offer that could enrich people’s lives. On this episode Samuel Hansen rummages through his mathematical tool box and showcases three tools he feel are going to be very important in the coming years.

I want to thank all the funders that made this possible, and ask everyone for some help. I want you to tweet about the show, tumblr about it, blog about, up-vote this reddit, http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/100t5u/relatively_prime_the_toolbox_tools_that/, submit it to slashdot, digg, hackernews, boingboing, and any other aggregator, and post it on facebook, or share it on Google+.

What follows is the official Relatively Prime press release. Please spread it around, especially if you happen to know any bloggers or journalists who happen to like to cover mathematical or scientific  topics. Also please submit this link to the ACMEScience.com post bout it to your favorite aggregator(boingboing, reddit, digg, slashdot, hackernews, etc) 

http://acmescience.com/shows/1687

PRESS RELEASE 

CONTACT:
Samuel Hansen
samuel@acmescience.com
(702)235-9961
http://acmescience.com
http://relprime.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ACMEScience.com presents
Relatively Prime: Stories from the Mathematical Domain
Eight episode series explores the world of mathematics

NIAGARA, WI – (September 10, 2012): ACMEScience.com is proud to announce the premiere of its brand-new podcast Relatively Prime: Stories from the Mathematical Domain. A Kickstarter funded series, the first episode of Relatively Prime will be released on September 17th and the series will run until November 5th, with a new episode being released every Monday. 

Produced and hosted by Samuel Hansen, Relatively Prime is an eight episode series featuring in-depth stories about the world of mathematics. While each episode revolves around a single theme, the themes themselves vary widely and include a checkers playing computer, new tools for your mathematical toolbox, and things that were flat out unexpected. The guests range widely too, from a Fields Medalist to a composer to a stand-up mathematician. 

“Mathematics is not talked about enough. For a subject that is, as you hear over and over again, the foundation of science and technology and engineering it seems to be rather tragically under-covered in the media,” said Samuel Hansen when asked about why he decided to create Relatively Prime. “There are great stories, not just great mathematical stories, but great human stories as mathematics is as human an endeavor as anything else. I wanted to create an outlet for people to hear these stories.” 

Relatively Prime looks at these mathematical stories through a lens that anyone can understand. While the shows do not stray away from advanced mathematical topics, the content itself carefully avoids getting bogged down in technical details. Speaking on this Samuel said, “I am a mathematician, I live for the details and trust me I asked my guests plenty of technical questions, but when it came to putting the shows together I wanted to make sure that they were accessible for everyone. It would be a shame if people needed to spend a few years getting an advanced degree before they could appreciate the stories. That is not to say that I lowered the level of the content. I was very careful to maintain the integrity of the mathematics, and I wanted to be sure that my audience never felt I was speaking down to them.” 

Relatively Prime will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License and Samuel Hansen is looking forward to any remixes that may result. The show will be available to download directly at the show’s website http://relprime.com, through the RSS Feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/relprime, and through iTunes.
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For more information, or sample episodes, please contact:
Samuel Hansen
samuel@acmescience.com
(702)235-9961
http://acmescience.com
http://relprime.com

About ACMEScience.com
ACMEScience.com is the hub for multiple shows that range in content from video interviews of scientists discussing their newest research to panel discussions about mathematical topics liberally peppered with silly jokes and pop culture references to 80s cult Sci-Fi movies. 

About Samuel Hansen 

Samuel Hansen is the producer of multiple podcasts at ACMEScience.com, including the science history show Science Sparring Society and the mathematics interview show Strongly Connected Components. He is also the co-host of the weekly mathematical news podcast Math/Maths with his frequent collaborator Peter Rowlett hosted through Pulse-Project. Samuel has a Masters degree in mathematics from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and has given many mathematical presentations to audiences around the world.

Relatively Prime will start September 17th, 2012!!!!

Hey Relatively Prime Funders,

I have not updated y'all in quite a long time, and I now I should be better about that especially for those of you that do not get videos(a new one is coming soon for those of you that do), but a lot has been accomplished. I am finally back at my home base after 5 months on the road that saw me visit Barcelona, England, Canada, and the East and West Coasts all in the name of Relatively Prime. I have hours upon hours of audio, of which I just organized, that will, given a couple of months of work, turn itself into great stories that I know everyone will love. Sorry once again for the lack of updates, but it is not because I have had a lack of work.

Thanks for the funding again, and always,

Samuel