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Inspired by the 3Blue1Brown video “All possible Pythagorean Triples visualized”. Simon has recently learned about different ways to find Pythagorean Triples, using different formulas (involving complex numbers and not). His … Continue reading Pythagorean Triples
His sister an grandma visiting from snowy Russia making paper snowflakes inspired Simon… Right is Simon’s sister’s snowflake, left is Simon’s:
Programmed a random number generator to hep him with a card trick. Inspired by Numberphile:
Simon came up with an idea to make a puzzle of “squared squares”, a concept he learned via Numberphile. One square of 112 by 112 cm (the smallest possible of … Continue reading Squared Square Puzzle
Simon writes: Sorry the video was cut off, we’ve recorded this video from our phone, but the phone ran out of memory. Actually, if -1/4 = 3S, can you … Continue reading Infinite sum formulas
In the video below, Simon is writing a sequence for pi (π), in which the sum of all the terms results in pi. Unfortunately, he got the formula that he … Continue reading The things that don’t converge anywhere totally blow my mind!
Simon has been studying Mersenne Primes (2^n – 1) and their relation to perfect numbers via the Numberphile channel and heard Matt Parker say that no one has proved that … Continue reading Simon trying to prove why perfect numbers are always even
This is a project about pattern. “Some people look for patterns. We call those people mathematicians”, Matt Parker said in a Numberphile video. I think I have never heard a … Continue reading Patterns. Hilbert Curve in Processing.
More Numberphile-inspired stuff! Simon has been studying Mersenne Primes (2^n – 1) and their relation to perfect numbers via the Numberphile channel and heard Matt Parker say no one has proved … Continue reading More Numberphile-inspired stuff!
Simon has become a full-blown Numberphile fan over the past couple of days. He had already watched two Matt Parker videos before, but it’s this week that he got seriously … Continue reading The Square-Sum Problem
This magical time of the year, Simon’s craziest, most daring dreams come true! First, his guru from the New York University Daniel Shiffman sends Simon his book and the words … Continue reading Magic around New Year’s Eve
Simon came up with this Fibonacci function while taking a walk downtown: f(0) = 0 f(1) = 1 f(n) = f(n-1)+f(n-2) When we got home, he used the function to … Continue reading Simon’s Fibonacci function and Fibonacci counter in p5.js
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