The Ben Paul Thurston Blog

Above: Red, black, green and purple are copper electrodes, copper colored is two separate pieces of solid copper, and blue is non-conduc...

This function is all operations in base 2 for ease of calculation on a computer... h is the height and a is a point on the x-axis, li...

I made like five or six improvements to my solar distiller idea... it was hard to get a good picture of the shape of the plastic lid, the ...

The end result is: The reasoning is, suppose you have your function f(x) and a point a, then these two functions are close to equal a...

I built this to distill dirty water into clean water, you put the 2-liter of bad water into the receiver which is made out of the top of a S...

To show the basic principle with a simple example, let's start with x^2 from 0 to 2: One could use the arclength formula to find the...

Gauss's circle problem asks a question that at it's heart concerns how many integer lattice points are inside or on the circle on a ...