Maths Conjectures

08/02/2026

Galton Biard in action at a Crazy Golf arcade

08/02/2026

More Maths action at the e arcade. Improbable cantilevers. However, what is most surprising is people adding coins after a win.

08/02/2026

The use of a Galton Board at a Crazy Golf arcade. But contrary to expectation the highest score is awarded for achieving the most likely outcome!!

07/02/2026

I know why this works algebraically but I am actually struggling to see this as “obviously “ 1/3 .

31/01/2026

Sir Isaac. The man.

17/01/2026

Einstein and Marie Curie pictured in 1929. The rhetoric is always that they are discussing higher level physics but they could be discussing what to eat for lunch.

17/12/2025

Who doesn’t love a Ramanujan story. Not always up there as everyone’s number one mathematician but you cannot argue against the romance of his story and the beauty of his equations.

“[In] any piece of beautiful mathematics, you almost always find that there is a physical system which actually mirrors the mathematics.”

15/12/2025

What's the most fascinating example of mathematics you've seen in nature? ✍️

08/12/2025

The problem here is ambiguity. An extrapolation of an American idea from the mid 20th Century when whole numbers did not include negative integers. Mathematicians avoid the use of the term “whole numbers” for this reason. Communicating across the World it is important to understand these differences. The problem then occurs that the volume of people in the USA means that the assumed meaning takes precedent whilst having been made up by educators and not mathematicians. We also get the issue of people taking their understanding and assuming it to be the truth. A common mistake in all spheres. Like the extrapolation of our own experiences and using that to judge other people, ooh I digress!

You know 2 + 2 comes to the same as 2 x 2. Now find a set of three different whole numbers whose sum is equal to their total when multiplied 🤓