Simon’s new optical illusion
You can play with Simon’s illusion in Geogebra online at: https://www.geogebra.org/m/aevtyumr
Category: Murderous Maths
Daniel Shiffman quotes Simon’s thoughts about complex numbers
NYU’s Associate Professor Daniel Shiffman quotes Simon during a Coding Train live tutorial from New York about Fourier Transform Drawings on 16 January 2019. Simon was participating via the Slack … Continue reading Daniel Shiffman quotes Simon’s thoughts about complex numbers
Euler’s Conjecture
We were reading a bedtime story, from the book “17 Equations that Changed the World” and Simon told me about how a computer disproved Euler’s Conjecture. I was surprised at … Continue reading Euler’s Conjecture
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!
Salle Pi
Simon talking about his favourite infinite sum at the circular room known as the “pi room” at the Palais de la Découverte (“Discovery Palace”) in Paris. Inscribed on the walls … Continue reading Salle Pi
Simon took part in a Coding Train livestream in Paris!
The video below is part of Daniel Shiffman’s livestream hosted by GROW Le Tank in Paris on 6 January 2019 about KNN, machine learning, transfer learning and image recognition. Daniel … Continue reading Simon took part in a Coding Train livestream in Paris!
False Proofs: Can you figure out what’s wrong?
Simon shows three false proofs. Can you find the mistake in each proof? Simon reveals the answers to the first two. Try to give your answer to the third one. … Continue reading False Proofs: Can you figure out what’s wrong?
The math behind why we can’t travel faster than light
Simon walks you through several special relativity paradoxes and a brief proof of why nothing can move faster than light. He shows the working out of the distance formula. Based … Continue reading The math behind why we can’t travel faster than light
Simon’s findings about the relationship between the exponent and the factor of a number
Simon explains why the proof that root 4 is irrational is false and shows a couple more related theorems (he came up with) generalizing the relationship between the exponent and … Continue reading Simon’s findings about the relationship between the exponent and the factor of a number
Geeks out of the box 