Turns out that I am still on a recreational mathematics run. Here is one I have been working on, arising from trying to explain norms and data science. Barry Rowlingson and John Mount asked the following question. Generate vectors v1 and v2 in Rn with each coordinate generated IID normal […]
For no good reason I decided to work out what shape minimized the tension at the attachment points of a draped cable. It turns out to be a lot droopier than one might expect. All of the details of the calculation using sympy can be found here.
Here is a fun combinatorial puzzle. I’ve probably seen this used to teach before, but let’s try to define or work this one from memory. I would love to hear more solutions/analyses of this problem. Suppose you have n kettles of soup labeled 0 through n-1. For our problem we […]
I was watching my cousins play Unspeakable Words over Christmas break and got interested in the end game. The game starts out as a spell a word from cards and then bet some points game, but in the end (when you are down to one marker) it becomes a pure […]
This article is a break from data-science, and is instead about the kind of problem you can try on the train. It is problem 70 in Bollobas’s “The art of mathematics” (though I forgot that and re-worked the problem crudely from memory when writing this article). One of the many […]