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This is the fourth video in Simon’s short series Infinities Driving You Mad. In this episode, Simon attempts to start to comprehend indescribable numbers. To Simon’s knowledge, no one has … Continue reading Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 4a: Indescribable Numbers
This is the second part in a series of four videos that Simon is recording about Infinities Driving You Mad (on Set Theory) and is devoted to ordinal numbers. If … Continue reading Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 2: There’re Infinitely Many Infinities
This is the first part in a series of four videos that Simon wants to record about Infinities Driving You Mad. Don’t worry, you won’t go mad just yet! The … Continue reading Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 1: There’s More than One Infinity.
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
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
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
Completely fascinated with VSauce videos on the theory of relativity (and why there is actually no gravity, and weight vs mass), Banach-Tarski Paradox (and other paradoxes, including those by Zeno) … Continue reading Vsauce
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 discusses the infinities of rational and irrational numbers, how they relate and the infinitesimal, using a mind boggling problem about a tree orchard as an example. Inspired by a … Continue reading Rational vs. Irrational
Simon: The expression of the probability that A wins includes the probability that A wins. Me: Aren’t you getting a headache from this? Simon: I’m used to this recursive stuff. … Continue reading Recursive Stuff
The base of the code comes from Daniel Shiffman’s Coding Train tutorial, but Simon has altered the colors and made zooming in interactive, he has added the exact zoom coordinates … Continue reading Mandelbrot Set in Processing
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