a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon came up with this trick today and had Neva solve his riddle: any Fibonacci number is equal to the sum of its surrounding Lucas numbers divided by 5. And … Continue reading A trick with Lucas and Fibonacci numbers
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 has come up with a proof that Phi (the Golden Ratio) is an algebraic number (not transcendental). He proves it by showing that Phi can be the solution to … Continue reading Simon’s proof that Phi is not transcendental
Sequences converging to Phi and negative one over Phi. Both are the only solutions to the quadratic equation that Simon used earlier to prove that Phi is not a transcendental … Continue reading What Converges to Phi
Simon’s live stream yesterday had several supportive viewers. Simon started making a game of Twins in Processing (Java) and went on with his JavaScript course Living Code, that is based … Continue reading Live Stream #16: Twins Game in Processing and Chapter 6 of Living Code.
Simon has solved the 3 x 3 x 3 Rubik’s Cube! On to the 4 x 4 x 4!
Simon shows his Times Tables Visualization in Processing (Java) and talks about how it’s connected to Mandelbrot Set. See the code with the README on GitHub: https://github.com/simon-tiger/times_tables View the full animation … Continue reading Simon’s Times Tables Visualization
What a blissful atmosphere at Maths Jam Antwerp yesterday, full of respect, encouragement and acceptance. It’s an international monthly meet-up taking place every second to last Tuesday of the month, … Continue reading Maths Jam in May
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
Simon often drags his sketchbook to bed to “show me the beauty”, just before I would read a bedtime story to him and his sis. Last time he showed me … Continue reading Some more pictures of Simon’s everyday notes
Simon’s latest Live Stream about Chapter 6 of his “Living Code” Course (particle systems!), loosely based on Daniel Shiffman’s Nature of Code. “I’m also going to live stream a surprise … Continue reading Live Stream #15. Chapter 6 of Living Code: Particle Systems
Simon wanted to make an outside video this afternoon, about what he’s been thinking of a lot lately – continued fractions. In the video below, he looks for curious number … Continue reading Very irrational numbers expressed as their continued fractions
Geeks out of the box 