Tag: math
Simon’s Times Tables Visualization Poster
My Times Tables Visualization Poster has arrived! Will probably present this at @CC_Amsterdam @ProcessingOrg Community Day Amsterdam! https://t.co/ChTg0eOLIn
Simon’s Times Tables Visualization is Now a Huge Poster!
Simon has made an enormous poster from his earlier animated version of the Times Tables Visualization! Simon is hoping to present this project at the Processing Community Day in Amsterdam … Continue reading Simon’s Times Tables Visualization is Now a Huge Poster!
Looking for Primes
Simon programmed this grid of numbers and then used Paint to color the numbers in that are multiples of other numbers, an Eratosthenes way to look for prime numbers. When … Continue reading Looking for Primes
Simon’s Proof for the Hundred Board Trick
Simon learned a new math trick last night called Hundred Board. He came up with two ways to prove why the trick always works:
Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 3: Inaccessible Numbers.
This is the third (and in my opinion, the best so far) video in Simon’s short series Infinities Driving You Mad. In this episode, Simon takes us into the strange … Continue reading Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 3: Inaccessible Numbers.
Why Cookies Get Bigger in the Oven
Simon is baking Dutch traditional “pepernootjes” (“pepper nuts” or spicy cookies) and explains why they get bigger in size after you put them in the oven and what the optimal … Continue reading Why Cookies Get Bigger in the Oven
Upon waking up
Simon said today upon waking up: “If a Physics constant suddenly popped up in pure mathematics, that would be really weird. If there is more than one universe, that would … Continue reading Upon waking up
Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 2: There’re Infinitely Many Infinities
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
Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 1: There’s More than One Infinity.
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.
Impressions on Newton’s mechanics.
“Are you impressed?” – Simon asks, laughingly, and I can see it must be a pun. We are in bed, reading up on Newton’s laws of motion that talk of … Continue reading Impressions on Newton’s mechanics.
MathsJam Antwerp 23 October 2018
Euphoric fun at MathsJam Antwerp @MathsJamAntwerp last night, where Simon solved two 2×2 Rubik’s Cube puzzles and one tricky maths problem, and simply enjoyed socialising with like-minded folks. In the … Continue reading MathsJam Antwerp 23 October 2018
Geeks out of the box 