Weaving a Spider Web I often see some beautiful spider webs near my house, similar to the one pictured above (picture from here). They clearly have some sort of mathematical structure, so I decided to have a quick go at creating my own. Looking at the picture above there are 2 main parts, an inner […]
Elliptical Curve Cryptography Elliptical curves are a very important new area of mathematics which have been greatly explored over the past few decades. They have shown tremendous potential as a tool for solving complicated number problems and also for use in cryptography. Andrew Wiles, who solved one of the most famous maths problems of the […]
Prime Spirals – Patterns in Primes One of the fundamental goals of pure mathematicians is gaining a deeper understanding of the distribution of prime numbers – hence why the Riemann Hypothesis is one of the great unsolved problems in number theory and has a $1 million prize for anyone who can solve it. Prime numbers […]
Getting a 7 in IB Maths Exploration Coursework I’ve teamed up with Udemy – the world’s leading provider of online courses to create a comprehensive online guide to the exploration. It includes 9 tutorial videos of essential information designed to ensure you get the best possible grade. You will also get a 60 page pdf […]
Anscombe’s Quartet was devised by the statistician Francis Anscombe to illustrate how important it was to not just rely on statistical measures when analyzing data. To do this he created 4 data sets which would produce nearly identical statistical measures. The scatter graphs above generated by the Python code here. Statistical measures 1) Mean of […]
Hailstone Numbers Hailstone numbers are created by the following rules: if n is even: divide by 2 if n is odd: times by 3 and add 1 We can then generate a sequence from any starting number. For example, starting with 10: 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1… we can see […]
