Benford’s Law
Simon is looking at his subscribers count on YouTube. We speculate if he gets to 1000 before the end of the academic year. Simon tells me that’s because subscriber count … Continue reading Benford’s Law
Category: Logic
Vladimir Krasnoukhov at MathsJam Antwerp!
When we arrived at the MathsJam last Tuesday, we heard a couple of people speak Russian. One of them turned out to be a well known Russian puzzle inventor Vladimir … Continue reading Vladimir Krasnoukhov at MathsJam Antwerp!
Fun with Brilliant’s Computer Courses
“Mom, how long would it take a supercomputer running at 10^15 additions per second to calculate the 1000th Fibonacci number?” Simon has learned this problem from the new course he … Continue reading Fun with Brilliant’s Computer Courses
Domain Coloring with Complex Functions in Wolfram Mathematica
Simon has been completely carried away by Wolfram Mathematica. He keeps starting new projects, just to try something out. After working on his Knot Theory book for days, and making … Continue reading Domain Coloring with Complex Functions in Wolfram Mathematica
Newtonian GPS would place you on the wrong planet!
Simon explains why our modern satellite navigation (the Global Positioning System or GPS) is a great experimental proof for Einstein’s relativity theory and what would happen if the software calculated … Continue reading Newtonian GPS would place you on the wrong planet!
On Incompleteness
Simon is enchanted by Gödel’s incompleteness theorem (that he has learned about from Numberphile) and keeps talking about it: “There’re problems that we just can’t solve. But if we prove … Continue reading On Incompleteness
Liva Stream #13. Math Puzzle: Logic.
In this live session, Simon works a little on his 15s puzzle redo that he started in his previous live session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixkLFYcb0T0 and programs a math/logic puzzle, checking whether the … Continue reading Liva Stream #13. Math Puzzle: Logic.
A rather simple but elegant puzzle
Answer: yes. Here Simon explains why:
Geeks out of the box 