Euler’s Identity
Euler’s Identity: e^ipi = – 1
Category: Simon teaching
Lucky Numbers
The lucky numbers are the ones that didn’t get eliminated. A lucky number is dependent on the previous one. Inspired by Numberphile.
Simon’s proof that factorials are highly composite
“Mom, I’m just one step away from proving that every factorial is a highly composite number!”
The Pi Strip
Simon made a measuring tool to check the diameter of round objects: by wrapping the strip around them, he reads the Pi times the centimeters value, which basically gives him … Continue reading The Pi Strip
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
Simon’s Archimedean Solids Project
https://youtu.be/dYBZXFW4bsg Simon is working on a project that will involve constructing the Archimedean solids from paper pieces that he programs in Processing (Java) and prints out. In the previous video, … Continue reading Simon’s Archimedean Solids Project
Slowing down the time
The first thing Simon said this morning was: “Mom, do you know that if you keep moving, you get one quadrillionth of a second per second younger than if you … Continue reading Slowing down the time
The Paradox of the Mathematical Cone
Simon showed me an interesting paradox that’s difficult to wrap my mind around. If you slice a cone (at a random height), the section is a circle. The chopped-off part … Continue reading The Paradox of the Mathematical Cone
Live Stream #18. Living Code, Chapter 6: Particle Systems. 99 Balls Game.
Simon says: “In this live session, I am continuing Chapter 6 of my “Living Code” Course. This is the 4th live stream that I’m attempting to do this”. It was … Continue reading Live Stream #18. Living Code, Chapter 6: Particle Systems. 99 Balls Game.
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
Trinity Hall Prime Number
Simon saw this pattern in a Numberphile video featuring Tadashi Tokieda and recreated it in Excel, adding colours. There are 30 columns and 45 rows of digits in this picture, … Continue reading Trinity Hall Prime Number
Vectary.com
Simon has discovered a great new graphing tool: Vectary.com! “Finally I have found something topological,” Simon says. “There is a branch in math called topology. It’s about deforming things. I … Continue reading Vectary.com
Geeks out of the box 