Different bases
Looks like someone’s been studying a variety of bases…
Tag: Numberphile
A new tour of Simon’s sketch book
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
River Crossings Puzzle
This is a Japanese version of the famous River Crossings Puzzle that Simon learned from the Scam School channel (yes, our little programming and math nerd actually watches Scam School, … Continue reading River Crossings Puzzle
Pebbling a Chessboard
Learned from Numberphile.
Ramanujan’s Taxicab Numbers
Ramanujan’s Taxicab Numbers are the smallest numbers that can be written as a sum of two numbers to the power of n in two different ways. We only know such … Continue reading Ramanujan’s Taxicab Numbers
Sunday Geometry
Simon proving that the three angles below add up to 90 degrees:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +… = – 1/12? Or does it break math?
Simon keeps coming back to this irresistible math problem about whether the infinite sum 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +… converges to negative 1/12. He was quite disappointed … Continue reading 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +… = – 1/12? Or does it break math?
Mathematical Knots
And Simon learned that a Mobius ring is a knot, too.
The Euler Line in Triangles
Simon trying to get three dots in one line. Inspired by a Numberphile video.
Quaternians
Simon talks about expressing 1D, 2D and 3D movement. Inspired by the Fantastic Quaternions video on Numberphile.
Rational vs. Irrational
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
A great number guessing trick
Simon guessing fifth power roots. Simon learned this from an older Simon on the Numberphile channel. Simon also tried to develop his own system for guessing numbers cased on their … Continue reading A great number guessing trick
Geeks out of the box 