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Simon wanted to make an outside video this afternoon, about what he’s been thinking of a lot lately – continued fractions. In the video below, he looks for curious number … Continue reading Very irrational numbers expressed as their continued fractions
Simon and Neva make a 3D projection of a Hypertetrahedron – one of the regular solids in 4D – using straws. Simon looks up the formula for the center of … Continue reading 4D Solids at our home!
Simon what is this, what are you making? – I was posh enough to make the tables of multiplications in base 12!
Simon: Mom, there’s no number that’s close to infinity. I: There isn’t, is there? But even when I realise it’s true, I have trouble imagining this. Simon: This is the … Continue reading Imagining infinity
Simon reading from his favourite book by Murderous Maths – The Most Epic Book of Maths Ever, the chapter about the famous problem on filling a chessboard as a geometric … Continue reading A big number
The fertility formula, to predict the population the following year: A fake number (called “Wau”) to imagine infinity (via Numberphile): Drawing a square root of 5 (via James Grime): Pebbling … Continue reading A new tour of Simon’s sketch book
Simon’s little textbook on how to bisect and “n-sect” a line, that he wrote himself:
This is a Japanese version of the famous River Crossings Puzzle that Simon learned from the Scam School channel (yes, our little programming and math nerd actually watches Scam School, … Continue reading River Crossings Puzzle
Simon shows how to draw a segment that is Phi times longer than a unit segment. He learned from a video by James Grime how to draw the square root … Continue reading How to draw the Golden Ratio (Phi)
Ramanujan’s Taxicab Numbers are the smallest numbers that can be written as a sum of two numbers to the power of n in two different ways. We only know such … Continue reading Ramanujan’s Taxicab Numbers
Simon has invented this card trick using a random field of cards and allowing him to predict nearly the whole path through the field. You can play along as a … Continue reading Random Field Card Trick
Simon proving that the three angles below add up to 90 degrees:
Geeks out of the box 