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Mike's Math Page
Personal blog · mikesmathpage.wordpress.commath
Mike's Math Page is a personal blog at mikesmathpage.wordpress.com about math. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Math posts on geometry, including counterintuitive properties of high-dimensional space and nesting Platonic solids. Commenters link them as related reading, and one used a post's puzzle as a project.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
I was reminded of this: https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/a-strange-pro... which I solved with this F# script, while learning F# https://gist.github.com/jackmott/bec1e4c7e84904702bac1dae97c...
Comment linking /2016/04/29/a-strange-problem-i-overheard-bjorn-poonen-discussing/
on “Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space”Submitted Writing 1/3 in binary (2014) [video] as a story · 72 points
HN discussionThere is a link close to the animated gif to another post ( https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/can-you-belie... ) where this is shown with more details. When you fold the dodecahedron into a cube, inside the cube there is an empty space having the form of a stellated polyhedron, which has 8 pointed vertices on the 8 vertices of the cube. In the center of the stellated polyhedron there is an empty icosahe…
Comment linking /2016/01/16/can-you-believe-that-dodecahedron-folds-into-a-cube/
on “Nesting Platonic Solids”Submitted Choosing 3M points on a 300-dimensional sphere as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nesting Platonic Solids as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted Integers, fractions, and decimals are different things to kids as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Integers, fractions, and decimals are different things to kids (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sharing Joel David Hamkins’s “almost correct proofs” tweet with my son as a story · 2 points
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