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Here come a few simple but beautiful math games that don’t take much time or preparation. Simon has learned about these from the following great resources, worth checking out: Math … Continue reading More Math games on a sheet of paper or on the street, using two pieces of chalk
Simon has made it into the #MegaFavNumbers playlist, organized by Cambridge’s James Grime for mathematicians on YouTube. Nearly 250 mathematicians (including StandUpMaths and 3Blue1Brown) have pitched in with videos about … Continue reading #MegaFavNumbers
This project is a simulation of how many people can stem from the same ancestor, something Simon has learned from James Grime’s “Every Baby is a Royal Baby” video on … Continue reading The All Common Ancestors Generation
Simon is enchanted by Gödel’s incompleteness theorem (that he has learned about from Numberphile) and keeps talking about it: “There’re problems that we just can’t solve. But if we prove … Continue reading On Incompleteness
Simon has crafted his own tiny slide rule that he carries around rolled up in an elastic band and calls his “toy”. The two strips of paper aligned together in … Continue reading Simon’s little slide rule
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 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)
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
Inspired by the videos by Matt Parker and James Grime: Simon also made the Borromean rings: And cubes (which Simon now uses to practice juggling!)
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
In this live session, Simon works a little on his 15s puzzle redo that he started in his previous live session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixkLFYcb0T0 and programs a math/logic puzzle, checking whether the … Continue reading Liva Stream #13. Math Puzzle: Logic.
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