Maths-Whizz Blog

Maths – the best use for golf balls

May 5th, 2010

Reluctant golfer that he is, the God of Whizz has finally stumbled across the best use for all those silly little balls – maths. Fractals, in fact.

Rather than serve only to be hooked, sliced, or shanked into the near distance, chased by a volley of insults, hundreds of red and blue golf balls have been put towards a magnificent three-dimensional Sierpinski Triangle (or tetrahedron, in this instance).

A use for golf balls - maths fractal pyramid

A use for golf balls - maths fractal pyramid

To those otherwise unversed in Sierpinski’s Triangle (also known as a ‘gasket’), it’s a beautifully elegant fractal.

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Simple Pumpkin Pie recipe – just use ‘math’

May 4th, 2010

Stuck without a simple pumpkin pie recipe? Try this!

Pumpkin Pie recipe

Pumpkin Pie recipe

Pies and Pi – the hidden formula

April 6th, 2010

Pi is a wonderful, fabulous, and famously irrational number. It even knows when you’re hungry, as the below mathematical equation amply demonstrates.

Pies and Pi - the hidden formula

As comedy maths puzzlers go, this one is a little forced, but nevertheless fun to share. I confess it took The God of Whizz a few goes to figure out that Pi = ‘pie’ (look at the scribbly reflected numbers).

Despite this neat coincidence, I somehow suspect that sharing this fancy formula in an exam or test won’t get you extra credit…

(via RedEye Puzzler)

Nature by numbers – beauty in maths

March 23rd, 2010

Stop everything.
Watch ‘Nature by Numbers’.
See the mathematical beauty in the natural world and the elegant, complex structures that arise from simple rules.

[Props to Keat, via BoingBoing]

Now carry on.


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