Catenaries
Simon showing us catenaries made of soap, as he brings two plastic bands apart after dipping them in soapy water:
Author: Geeks out of the Box
This is a blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. We write this blog together, share their projects and thoughts on their journey towards self-dicovery. They’re growing up in a supportive non-coercive learning environment. We deeply believe in interest-based, self-paced education and have had to move countries to make this possible as a family.
Visit Simon’s website at https://simontiger.com/
We are a family from Amsterdam who moved to Antwerp because homeschooling is illegal in The Netherlands.
This blog started as https://antwerpenhomeschooling.wordpress.com in March 2016. Over the years, most of our entries have gravitated towards exploring together with Simon as he has developed an insatiable passion for programming, math and science. His sister Neva is treading on his heals. We changed or name to Geeks of the Box in May 2021.
Evening chess
Playing chess in the park. A beautiful way to spend my birthday evening. The new Chinese chess set was a gift from Steven. To top it all off, Simon also … Continue reading Evening chess
Mom is 100111! And she is 33! And 124!
It’s my birthday today and Simon has calculated my age in bases 2-12, 16 and 20! In the video, he explains what my color is in hexadecimal (base 16), how … Continue reading Mom is 100111! And she is 33! And 124!
2 x 2 x 2 also done!
Completely on his own, without using any YouTube tutorials. (Says he applied parts of the same algorithm as he had learned for the 3 x 3 x 3 one).
Irrationality of Square Roots
Simon has started a little video series about the Irrationality of Square Roots. In Part 0, Simon talks about what square root of 2 is and in Part 1, he … Continue reading Irrationality of Square Roots
Simon’s Spirograph
Simon saw a way to draw epitrochoids (gear rolling outside another gear) and hypotrochoids (gear rolling inside another gear) on VSauce: two equal circles rolling around each other form a … Continue reading Simon’s Spirograph
Plane into Sphere
“Turning a Plane into a Sphere. Topologically it’s impossible I think” . And yesterday in bath: “Mom, these bath bombs deform topologically!”
A trick with Lucas and Fibonacci numbers
Simon came up with this trick today and had Neva solve his riddle: any Fibonacci number is equal to the sum of its surrounding Lucas numbers divided by 5. And … Continue reading A trick with Lucas and Fibonacci numbers
Vsauce
Completely fascinated with VSauce videos on the theory of relativity (and why there is actually no gravity, and weight vs mass), Banach-Tarski Paradox (and other paradoxes, including those by Zeno) … Continue reading Vsauce
Simon’s proof that Phi is not transcendental
Simon has come up with a proof that Phi (the Golden Ratio) is an algebraic number (not transcendental). He proves it by showing that Phi can be the solution to … Continue reading Simon’s proof that Phi is not transcendental
What Converges to Phi
Sequences converging to Phi and negative one over Phi. Both are the only solutions to the quadratic equation that Simon used earlier to prove that Phi is not a transcendental … Continue reading What Converges to Phi
Live Stream #16: Twins Game in Processing and Chapter 6 of Living Code.
Simon’s live stream yesterday had several supportive viewers. Simon started making a game of Twins in Processing (Java) and went on with his JavaScript course Living Code, that is based … Continue reading Live Stream #16: Twins Game in Processing and Chapter 6 of Living Code.
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