Category: Murderous Maths

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Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 3: Inaccessible Numbers.

This is the third (and in my opinion, the best so far) video in Simon’s short series Infinities Driving You Mad. In this episode, Simon takes us into the strange … Continue reading Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 3: Inaccessible Numbers.

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Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 2: There’re Infinitely Many Infinities

This is the second part in a series of four videos that Simon is recording about Infinities Driving You Mad (on Set Theory) and is devoted to ordinal numbers. If … Continue reading Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 2: There’re Infinitely Many Infinities

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Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 1: There’s More than One Infinity.

This is the first part in a series of four videos that Simon wants to record about Infinities Driving You Mad. Don’t worry, you won’t go mad just yet! The … Continue reading Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 1: There’s More than One Infinity.

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Impressions on Newton’s mechanics.

“Are you impressed?” – Simon asks, laughingly, and I can see it must be a pun. We are in bed, reading up on Newton’s laws of motion that talk of … Continue reading Impressions on Newton’s mechanics.

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MathsJam Antwerp 23 October 2018

Euphoric fun at MathsJam Antwerp @MathsJamAntwerp last night, where Simon solved two 2×2 Rubik’s Cube puzzles and one tricky maths problem, and simply enjoyed socialising with like-minded folks. In the … Continue reading MathsJam Antwerp 23 October 2018

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The Senses: Simulating Taste and Smell

You need 24 bits (3 bytes) to simulate color. That’s 24 ones and zeros. How many bits are necessary to simulate taste? Or smell? Correction: You would need 584 bits … Continue reading The Senses: Simulating Taste and Smell