30 Jul

If you’ve come here as a result of a puzzling postcard you may have come across, welcome to Studio Infinity! We hope you’ll enjoy looking at some of the other content below as well, but here are the three posts corresponding to the problems you can find on those postcards, each of which links to… [Read more]

30 Jul

How does the value of the following improper integral compare to 1? I.e., is it smaller, larger, or exactly equal to 1? (This problem was proposed to Math Horizons Playground by Mehtaab Sawney of Commack High School. And for all of you $\pi$-ists out there, $\tau$ is of course just the radian measure of a… [Read more]

30 Jul

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30 Jul

For definiteness, the unlabeled points do in fact trisect each of the sides of the triangle. Stumped? You can peek at the answer using the password “threedian”.

30 Jul

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30 Jul

What are the next few terms in this sequence of smallish numbers? 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 3 2 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 3 2 1 1 3 ? ? ?… [Read more]

30 Jul

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29 Jul

A few days after the event at TCNJ, students at the PROMYS program at Boston University built another “Life sculpture” in which each layer is a generation and time proceeds downwards. Here, we explored questions of how you might know things like whether the resulting “sculpture” would be connected, or whether it would be self-supporting.… [Read more]

27 Jul

Here is a photo of the first 13 generations of the evolution of the “R” pentomino pattern in John Conway’s Game of Life. Each layer represents one generation, and time proceeds downwards. In each layer, live cells are represented by boxes. The color of the box indicates how many generations that cell has been alive:… [Read more]