a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Back in October, Simon got fascinated with this weird system called p-adic numbers (where p stands for “prime”). It’s a system in which you can have numbers going infinitely far … Continue reading P-adic System is used in computers!
Simon has written a code in Python that generates primes using the finite list from Euclid’s proof that there are infinitely many primes. “Starting with one prime (2) the code … Continue reading Prime Generation Algorithm in Python
Simon working on his proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic (he got stuck and then searched for existing proofs online).
Simon programmed this grid of numbers and then used Paint to color the numbers in that are multiples of other numbers, an Eratosthenes way to look for prime numbers. When … Continue reading Looking for Primes
No matter how much you sharpen either one of these pencils, it will keep having a prime number written on it. Simon adorned them with the largest truncatable prime and … Continue reading Magic Prime Number Pencils
Simon saw this pattern in a Numberphile video featuring Tadashi Tokieda and recreated it in Excel, adding colours. There are 30 columns and 45 rows of digits in this picture, … Continue reading Trinity Hall Prime Number
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
This is a fun number guessing trick, based on powers of 2 and the Fibonacci sequence, that even little kids can enjoy. You don’t have to know anything about the … Continue reading A Cool Number Guessing Trick! Or Brown’s Criterion in Processing
Geeks out of the box 