a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon has tried to find out whether each of the players have equally fair chance to win a NIM game. In many games that’s exactly the case, but not in … Continue reading The probability of winning a game of NIM
Simon learned this from a Numberphile video. And the finished works:
Simon learned this trick from a Numberphile video. He made mental log sticks himself. He first programmed the nets in JavaScript and printed them out, then filled in the grids by … Continue reading Mental Logs Trick
Simon has programmed a Conway Checkers game in Processing (Java). The game is a math version of traditional checkers and was invented by John Conway (famous as the author of … Continue reading Conway Checkers game in Processing
Simon made this magic hexagon inspired by a Numberphile video. Every row of numbers inside the hexagon makes 38 (also diagonally) and every side sums up to 38 as … Continue reading The Magic Hexagon
Simon wrote a program in Processing that plays the music of Pi. The idea to assign every integer a sound frequency belongs to the Numberphile channel, but Simon came up … Continue reading Music of Pi in Processing
Simon saw an interesting example on Numberphile and came up with a more general formula for a case when a number can never be prime. Later someone noticed in the … Continue reading For the love of math
What shape can roll well, other than a circle (wheel)? Two circles, attached together according to a formula involving a square root of two! Simon made these “wobbly circles” inspired … Continue reading Wobbly Circles and the Center of Mass
Simon came up with a function that for bigger inputs approaches Pi. He has seen that the result of a function for infinity ∞ f(infinity) = Pi/4 in a Numberphile … Continue reading Simon’s Function for Pi
Based on the Numberphile video about the Kolakoski Sequence.
Inspired by yet another Numberphile video, Simon is explaining why it’s impossible to turn a circle into a square with the same area using only the tools that the ancient … Continue reading How to Square a Circle
Programmed a random number generator to hep him with a card trick. Inspired by Numberphile:
Geeks out of the box 