Mathematical Card Tricks
admin There are numerous card tricks which use mathematics to work instead of manipulations. I try to collect some here. The page will grow as I find more interesting ones. Let…
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Exit Times and Probabilities – Continued
I wrote about the interesting problem of average waiting times here. Inspired by the YouTube short video here, I like to continue with a similar problem. I was thinking about…
ChatGPT – often dumber than a Toddler
I could not believe it. The following idea is from a YouTube video on a channel named @FatherPhi who also has a website. I do not trust anybody on the…
Special Theory of Relativity – Simplified
This posting is due to a conversation I had recently about the problems to understand modern physics. Especially for quantum mechanics and the behavior of the small world, they say…
Nested Square Roots by Ramanujan
The Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan was as an extremely talented autodidact, capable of doing the most complicated algebraic manipulations. He later worked with Hardy in England fighting with lots of…