The Ben Paul Thurston Blog

I've collected all the best ideas on this blog and improved the presentation from these past 5 years and posted them over at a Facebook ...

Just a thought experiment... I wonder if you have a windmill turning a propeller on a boat if you could sail into the wind? I can kind of ma...

Suppose you have n items to be sorted, for example: 3,7,15,4,8,2,9,13,11,10,6,12,1,0,14,5 The first step is to take the first four items f...

First defining some terms and a hypothesis for closed paths P on the plane through n points with x,y coordinates x[i], y[i] all in the first...

For n points in any number of dimensions with coordinates P(n), The function above interpolates the points within an error range of about...

The traced curve varying t goes through the midpoints of the sides of the triangle...

I was thinking some problems that take place on a sphere might be easier thinking of them on the modular plane and some modulo problems migh...