The Ben Paul Thurston Blog

If you made two gears that were parabolas, as one rolls over another a straight line force on one end can multiply the force and rotate it 4...

I thought of this way to do a regression of points that is much simpler than the least squares approach, as that involves using the derivati...

Suppose you have any kind of graph: Note that some of the edges are weighted, vertices can be connected to themselves, and it doesn't...

So you start with a random map: Then connect vertexes on the map with straight lines instead of irregular ones, but make sure every regio...

I noticed that you can plot the surface of the cone that they use in describing conics as: I don't know why maple didn't show po...

I noticed if you have a grid of temperatures matrix T like: The diagonal ellipses are meant to imply that the grid can go on to any numbe...

So I thought, have a pond that grows algae, the algae use water and sunlight to create carbohydrates, feed the algae and water to a tank of ...