Looking back at the vacation
Although vacation is a vague notion in our family, where days are devoted to doing favourite things 365 days a year. For Simon, that means that his days are filled … Continue reading Looking back at the vacation
Category: Notes on everyday life
Simon turned 9!
– Simon, Mom and Dad arranged it quite nicely, to have your birthdat and our wedding anniversary on two consecutive days! – No, it was pure coincidence! – But what … Continue reading Simon turned 9!
Programming and watching Physics Girl
Simon in seventh heaven programming an optical illusion in Processing (Java) and watching Physics Girl, what more can you ask for?
Some more memories from Friesland. Binary Calculator.
A couple more images from our trip to Friesland. Simon’s binary calculator: Doing math at a restaurant where we were celebrating his friend’s birthday:
Optical Illusions in Leeuwarden, Friesland
Simon loved the optical illusions scattered around the town.
2.5D and steam
Jaume Plensa, Love. Simon said it was a 2.5 dimensional sculpture. And such a shame we had no laser pen, to see the beam in the steam.
On the train
Simon waiting patiently as our train was halted for over an hour due to the extreme heat: “If you pick four atoms from the Universe at random, then I would … Continue reading On the train
Symmetric Chaos
“What you’ll find is that the path is chaotic while the points are actually symmetric,” – Simon tells me, graphing a sequence on the beach. (On the picture below, the … Continue reading Symmetric Chaos
I Love U
Simon’s love letters:
Just a feeling
“Mom, I have the feeling I’m the Ramanujan or Paul of the 21st century”.
Ramanujan-converging
Today Simon learned that it was Euler who first came up with the idea that the infinite sum 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +… converges to -1/12. Simon … Continue reading Ramanujan-converging
Geometric Definition of e
The idea comes from a video by Mathologer. Simon sketches a geometric definition of the Euler’s number (e) using integrals. He messed up a little with the integral notation, but … Continue reading Geometric Definition of e
Geeks out of the box 