Code Solving Towers of Hanoi
Simon has written a short Python code solving the Towers of Hanoi puzzle: https://repl.it/@simontiger/Towers-of-Hanoi
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Mind Mystery
Our visit to Mind Mystery, a place featuring a few famous optical illusions and math puzzles museum in the Dutch province of Limburg was really impressive.
MEL Chemistry Experiments: Foil Etching, Magnetizing Magnesium, Metal Contest
In the Foil Etching experiment we had copper burn a whole in the aluminium foil. As you can see, aluminum Al is much more reactive than copper Cu, but nothing … Continue reading MEL Chemistry Experiments: Foil Etching, Magnetizing Magnesium, Metal Contest
Modular Arithmetic visualized with Wheel Math
Simon learned this method from a MajorPrep video and was completely obsessed about it for a good couple of weeks, challenging everyone in our inner circle to factorize numbers using … Continue reading Modular Arithmetic visualized with Wheel Math
CERN Open Days September 14 – 15, 2019
The most important experience was actually simply to see how huge the Large Hadron Collider is. We totally didn’t expect the site of every experiment on the 27km ring to … Continue reading CERN Open Days September 14 – 15, 2019
Surrounded by the equations that changed the world
At the main entrance to CERN there is an impressive smooth curve of a memorial to the world’s most important equations and scientific discoveries:
The most efficient base
I’ve discovered that base 3 is the most efficient base (not base 2). Actually the most efficient base is e, and 3 is the closest to e (the proof requires … Continue reading The most efficient base
The Netherlands Chase Away Extreme Talent
This summer, aged 9, Simon @simontigerh was named a World Science Scholar and joined a two-year program for the world’s most exceptional young math talents, as the youngest among the … Continue reading The Netherlands Chase Away Extreme Talent
Math puzzles: Is it Possible?
Simon has been fascinated by these possible-impossible puzzles (that he picked up from the MajorPrep channel) for a couple of days. He prepared many paper visuals so that Dad and … Continue reading Math puzzles: Is it Possible?
Geeks out of the box 