a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
A visual solution to Fourier’s heat equation in p5. Play with the two versions online: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/present/EaHr9886H https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/EaHr9886H https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/present/ruN8CQV77https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/ruN8CQV77 Inspired by 3Blue1Brown’s Differential Equations series.
Simon teaching his sister Neva from the Mathematical Fundamentals course on Brilliant:
I asked Simon to show me how he’d come up with the formulae:
Simon writes: Made a little game where the computer thinks of a number 1-100, and you try to guess it within 7 takes! Hint: the algorithm is called “Binary Search”. … Continue reading Number Guessing Game
Simon loves challenging other people with math problems. Most often it’s his younger sister Neva who gets served a new portion of colourful riddles, but guests visiting our home also … Continue reading Teaching Mathematical Fundamentals
Simon explains what Gaussian formula is to check a shape’s curvature and shows how to make a triangle with three 90° angles. Or is it a square, since it’s a … Continue reading A Square Triangle?
“What is the chance that two people in a group of, say, 30 people would have their birthday on the same day?” I asked Simon as we were sitting on … Continue reading Trinagular birthday probabilities
Simon writes: I have composed a piece of music based on the Fibonacci sequence, using modular arithmetic (I assigned numbers from 0-6, the remainders after ÷ by 7, to notes … Continue reading Simon’s Fibonacci Music Pesano Periods
This is a project that Simon started a few weeks ago but never finished, so I think it’s time I archive it here. It’s based upon this wonderful Numberphile video, … Continue reading Cat and Mouse
Monday morning Simon showed me the Chaos Game: he created three random dots on a sheet of paper (the corners of a triangle) and was throwing dice to determine where … Continue reading Chaos Game and the Serpinski Triangle
Walking home from the swimming pool (where he and Neva had been jumping into the water exactly 24 times, calling out all the permutations of 1,2,3 and 4), Simon suddenly … Continue reading Why mathematics may become computer science
Geeks out of the box 