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IB Maths Resources from British International School Phuket

When do 2 squares equal 2 cubes?

When do 2 squares equal 2 cubes? Following on from the hollow square investigation this time I will investigate what numbers can be written as both the sum of 2 squares, 2 cubes and 2 powers of 4. i.e a2+b2 = c3+d3 = e4+f4. Geometrically we can think of this as trying to find an […]

Hollow Cubes and Hypercubes investigation

Hollow Cubes investigation Hollow cubes like the picture above [reference] are an extension of the hollow squares investigation done previously.  This time we can imagine a 3 dimensional stack of soldiers, and so try to work out which numbers of soldiers can be arranged into hollow cubes. Therefore what we need to find is what […]

Ramanujan’s Taxi Cab and the Sum of 2 Cubes

Ramanujan’s Taxi Cabs and the Sum of 2 Cubes The Indian mathematician Ramanujan (picture cite: Wikipedia) is renowned as one of great self-taught mathematical prodigies.  His correspondence with the renowned mathematician G. H Hardy led him to being invited to study in England, though whilst there he fell sick.  Visiting him in hospital, Hardy remarked that […]

Waging war with maths: Hollow squares

Waging war with maths: Hollow squares The picture above [US National Archives, Wikipedia] shows an example of the hollow square infantry formation which was used in wars over several hundred years.  The idea was to have an outer square of men, with an inner empty square.  This then allowed the men in the formation to […]

Finding the volume of a rugby ball (or American football)

Finding the volume of a rugby ball (prolate spheroid) With the rugby union World Cup currently underway I thought I’d try and work out the volume of a rugby ball using some calculus.  This method works similarly for American football and Australian rules football.   The approach is to consider the rugby ball as an […]

The Shoelace Algorithm to find areas of polygons

The Shoelace Algorithm to find areas of polygons This is a nice algorithm, formally known as Gauss’s Area formula, which allows you to work out the area of any polygon as long as you know the Cartesian coordinates of the vertices.  The case can be shown to work for all triangles, and then can be […]

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