Another Wednesday, another session of Manjul Bhargava’s entertaining and instructive class at the National Museum of Mathematics, in New York City. This time, the topic was that of rhythmic combinations and their connection to mathematics. As the sentence itself suggests, combinations of rhythms lead to combinatorial arithmetic – the notions of Fibonacci numbers and Pascal’s … Read More “Math, Rhythmic patterns & A Card Trick” »
Month: September 2018
Recreational Math, Science in Daily Life
Recreational Math, Science in Daily Life
I spent a pleasant evening at the National Museum of Mathematics this week – the first session of a semester long program of lecture demonstrations about mathematics and magic. The instructor is Manjul Bhargava, the famous Princeton mathematician. I thought the ideas were worth discussing in a more public forum, so I resolved to demonstrate … Read More “Of Baby Hummers and clock arithmetic with Aryabhata and Archimedes” »