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:
Category: Trips
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.
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
Math on the Beach
Simon doing math everywhere. And he showed me this beautiful trick of two rows adding up to equal numbers and their squares adding up to equal numbers. And the two … Continue reading Math on the Beach
The rest of the trip to London
Simon loved the Science Museum, even though he did not get to see the Klein Bottles from the museum’s permanent collection (none of them was on display). He particularly enjoyed … Continue reading The rest of the trip to London
Doing Math Everywhere
Doing math everywhere. At the hotel: At The Tower of London: Trying to prove the Wallace Product at breakfast: Coming up with a “spot the mistake proof” at London St.Pancras … Continue reading Doing Math Everywhere
The skyscraper that set things on fire
Inspired by Matt Parker’s video about the uniquely shaped building at 20 Fenchurch Street in London, Simon was very excited to visit this address. In the video below, made on the … Continue reading The skyscraper that set things on fire
The Maisie Day
For Simon and me, this book (“Infinite Lives of Maisie Day” by Christopher Edge) has probably been one of our most profound experiences of the year. We read it together, … Continue reading The Maisie Day
Coding everywhere, swimming and popping giant balloons
A few more pics from the coding everywhere series: Here Simon made a game especially for his sister: Among the remaining favorites were reading (see an earlier post), swimming (and … Continue reading Coding everywhere, swimming and popping giant balloons
For Mom’s birthday
For my birthday, Simon made me some Fireworks: He made them look even better the following day, by adding trails: The code is Simon’s translation into Lua (the language of … Continue reading For Mom’s birthday
Geeks out of the box 