Lebrecht Goeritz was a German mathematician who designed some trivial knots almost a century ago. His most famous unknot has eleven crossings.
A useful math hack…
How to easily solve a nested radical equation,,,
You can adapt it to any repeating basic math operator in the infinitely nested radicals. The above nested radicals can be equal to whatever you want except 1, this is due to the particular multiplicative identity properties of the digit 1 (for instance, √1 = 1 and 1² = 1).
Fibonacci’s Soup
“Taste my recursive soup!”
– Fibonacci
Why √2 ∉ Q
The beautiful proof of why √2 ∉ Q
Visual Calculus
Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian (Armenian: Մամիկոն Մնացականյան) devised in 1959 a visual method to show that the areas of two annuli with the same chord length are the same regardless of inner and outer radii.
As an undergraduate, Mamikon specialized in the development of geometric methods for solving calculus problems by a visual approach that makes no use of formulas, which he later developed into his system of visual calculus.
Unfolding Knot
Complex knot equivalent to the unknot.
Imaginary Root of An Imaginary Number
Original Math Notations
This is a set of symbols developed for prime powers by the Italian mathematician Francesco Ghaligai in 1521. These were used where today we would use a named variable and a power.
Geometry & Electronics
Geometric shapes are not limited only to the figurative aspect, they can also play active roles, for instance, serving in microelectronics to build operational printed circuits such as: small inductors (magnified, fig. a below), resistors (fig. b) and capacitors (fig. c). (image taken from my book “Almanach du Mathématicien en Herbe“)
Paradoxical Elastic Squares
A math-magic article I wrote for the German magazine Zeit Wissen: with the 13 triangular and square pieces (fig. 1) it is possible to form two large squares shown in fig. 2. Though the second large square has an extra piece the dimensions of the squares seem to be the same! Can you explain why this is possible?
This puzzle is available as greeting cards from my online store.