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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 has been watching a lot of Mathologer’s videos lately, mainly about Euler’s Number (e) and Pi. He is fascinated by the proofs Mathologer presented of why each number is … Continue reading The irrationality of Pi and e
This experiment has been inspired by Matt Parker and his Stand Up Math channel. As one of our Pi day activities, Simon attempted to calculate Pi by weighing a circle. … Continue reading Calculating Pi by weighing circle and square
This video has been inspired by the wonderful Matt Parker and his video on the Stand Up Math channel: Yesterday was Pi day and we are still celebrating! Simon experiments … Continue reading Calculating Pi with a Pendulum
Simon preparing for his favorite festive date tomorrow, Pi Day!! https://github.com/CodingTrain/Rainbow-Topics/issues/883
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 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
Simon writes: Sorry the video was cut off, we’ve recorded this video from our phone, but the phone ran out of memory. Actually, if -1/4 = 3S, can you … Continue reading Infinite sum formulas
In the video below, Simon is writing a sequence for pi (π), in which the sum of all the terms results in pi. Unfortunately, he got the formula that he … Continue reading The things that don’t converge anywhere totally blow my mind!
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