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:
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Optical Illusions in Leeuwarden, Friesland
Simon loved the optical illusions scattered around the town.
The Leaning Tower of Lire
Also known as the Book-Stacking Problem. Simon had tried to build this tower at the Fries Museum where we visited a huge Escher exhibition (to the annoyance of the museum … Continue reading The Leaning Tower of Lire
Simon’s proof that every Fibonacci number is a sum of its neighbouring Lucas numbers divided by 5
This has probably been proven before, but Simon likes to come up with his own proof. Here he uses proof by induction, that is a proof that proves that some … Continue reading Simon’s proof that every Fibonacci number is a sum of its neighbouring Lucas numbers divided by 5
Euler’s Identity
Euler’s Identity: e^ipi = – 1
Lucky Numbers
The lucky numbers are the ones that didn’t get eliminated. A lucky number is dependent on the previous one. Inspired by Numberphile.
Simon’s proof that factorials are highly composite
“Mom, I’m just one step away from proving that every factorial is a highly composite number!”
The Pi Strip
Simon made a measuring tool to check the diameter of round objects: by wrapping the strip around them, he reads the Pi times the centimeters value, which basically gives him … Continue reading The Pi Strip
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
Slowing down the time
The first thing Simon said this morning was: “Mom, do you know that if you keep moving, you get one quadrillionth of a second per second younger than if you … Continue reading Slowing down the time
I Love U
Simon’s love letters:
Back in Shape
Simon prepared 100 2D shapes to make over 100 solids yesterday. He started with the easy one that he had built hundreds of times before, when he was much younger … Continue reading Back in Shape
Geeks out of the box 