E-mail from Ron Graham
Wow! We have received an e-mail from his mathematical majesty Ron Graham today! In reaction to Simon’s Graham Scan project: “Hi Sophia and Simon, I love the video on Graham’s … Continue reading E-mail from Ron Graham
Category: Murderous Maths
Simon’s Community Contribution: Variation of 2D Casting Coding Challenge in p5.js
This is Simon’s version of Daniel Shiffman’s 2D Casting code, made on Wednesday last week right after the live session. Link to the live session including the coding challenge. Code … Continue reading Simon’s Community Contribution: Variation of 2D Casting Coding Challenge in p5.js
What Simon did instead of taking the SAT on Saturday
On Saturday morning, Simon didn’t go to the SAT examination location, although we had registered him to try taking the SAT (with great difficulties, because he is so young). In … Continue reading What Simon did instead of taking the SAT on Saturday
Tower of Hanoi moves plotted under a binary log plot
What you see here is the sequence of moves to solve the Towers of Hanoi puzzle. The sequence goes up to 2 to the power of the number of rings … Continue reading Tower of Hanoi moves plotted under a binary log plot
More examples of Simon’s chat contributions on math and coding
Simon is always extremely active in the discussions about the current projects made by/ lectures given by NYU’s Asdociate Professor Daniel Shiffman during his live sessions on the Coding Train … Continue reading More examples of Simon’s chat contributions on math and coding
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!
Experimenting with random walks in Wolfram Mathematica
Simon’s code is published online at: https://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/monajune0/Published/Random_walk_distribution.nbhttps://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/monajune0/Published/Random_walk_distribution2D.nb “If I take many random walks and see what the endpoints of those random walks are, what I’ll find is a Gaussian distribution!” … Continue reading Experimenting with random walks in Wolfram Mathematica
Dijkstra’s pathfinding algorithm
“I have first built a maze, then I turned it into a graph and applied Dijkstra’s pathfinding algorithm!” Simon learned this from the Computerphile channel. He later also attempted to … Continue reading Dijkstra’s pathfinding algorithm
More Sorting Algorithms!
An update to Simon’s new project: a series of video tutorials on sorting algorithms! See the full playlist here. Finally, parts 6 and 7 of Simon’s exciting series of video … Continue reading More Sorting Algorithms!
Graham Scan Algorithm
“Connect some points into a convex polygon such that all of the remaining points are inside that convex polygon. The algorithm that will find it for me is called the … Continue reading Graham Scan Algorithm
Shaky Polyhedra
Simon has been studying various polyhedra and programming them in Wolfram Mathematica. He asked me to help him build one of the many “shaky polyhedra” from paper. The main characteristic … Continue reading Shaky Polyhedra
Geeks out of the box 