Deeper Dives into Mathematics

Deeper Dives into Mathematics

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Using Symmetry to Your Advantage: Some Classic Problems in New Light

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Using Symmetry to Your Advantage: Some Classic Problems in New Light

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Deeper Dives into Mathematics

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  1. 1 Using Symmetry to Your Advantage: Some Classic Problems in New Light
  2. 2 David Wilson's Curious Divisibility Graph -- and more!
  3. 3 Surprising Algebra in Geometry
  4. 4 Are Complex Numbers Forced Upon Us? Multiplication in High Dimensions
  5. 5 The Triatic Formula: Having Quirky Fun making things Quadratic, Triangular
  6. 6 Not-so-Curvy Curves on Not-so-Curvy Surfaces: Understanding the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem
  7. 7 A Math Mystery for Young Mathematicians
  8. 8 Dots in a Circle and Parentheses Numbers: A Sneaky Way into the Catalan Numbers
  9. 9 Fractions Take Up No Space on the Number Line (Whoa!)
  10. 10 Bee Numbers and the Power of Honeycomb! (via Seven Puzzles)
  11. 11 My Favourite Number Tree (and the sqrt(2) and weird binary, and more!)
  12. 12 An Astonishing Property of the Hemachandra Numbers (and the primes, and the non-squares, and more!)
  13. 13 Theon's Ladder, Squangular Numbers, International Paper, and more!
  14. 14 Sums of Powers Formulas
  15. 15 Sums of Powers: Part II. Proving the Whacky Integration Technique from part I (if you are game!)
  16. 16 Lattice Points in Circles: A curious puzzle
  17. 17 Partially-Filled Latin Squares and Semi-Magic Squares: A Follow-Up Video
  18. 18 Card Pile Mathematics and Semi-Magic Squares
  19. 19 Archimedes' Law of Lever
  20. 20 A Golden Ratio Surprise
  21. 21 How Archimedes First Deduced the Volume of a Sphere
  22. 22 A Surprising Appearance of Euler's Famous Formula: V- E + F = 2
  23. 23 How Round is a Cube? (Answer: Just as round as a sphere!)
  24. 24 Tie Folding and a link to Artin's Conjecture
  25. 25 Gender Balance Puzzle
  26. 26 The Citardauq Formula
  27. 27 Egg Dropping: Going beyond just solving the classic puzzle

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