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Sunday, 22 May 2011

Too old for such silly toys

Recently I had a birthday. My family kindly bought me a set of mathematical presents, including a Tippe Top, a Rattleback and a Gaussian gun. I show these and my other presents in action (the mathematical ones, at least) in the following video.


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2 comments:

Peter said...

Cool stuff.

Happy Birthday!

22 May 2011 15:08
Anonymous said...

Wow! What cool presents! This mathematician is envious...

Just was sent your blog by a friend and it looks like you're living my ideal life. Writing about math and having fun. Nice...

Happy birthday, btw.

21 June 2011 12:59

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