Prends garde à la douceur des choses

This mathematical treat was inspired by Jane Street‘s puzzle: Traversing the Infinite Sidewalk. I shared the puzzle with my mathematical friend Éric, and we had quite some fun discovering its properties. It is also a testimony to the richness derived from the irrationality of \(\log_2(3)\) and reminiscent of about the mathematics underlying the 12-tone Pythagorean […]

This mathematical treat was inspired by Jane Street‘s puzzle: Traversing the Infinite Sidewalk. I shared the puzzle with my mathematical friend Éric, and we had quite some fun discovering its properties. It is also a testimony to the richness derived from the irrationality of \(\log_2(3)\) and reminiscent of about the mathematics underlying the 12-tone Pythagorean […]

[WORK IN PROGRESS] A Steiner Triple System – STS for short – denoted by $\left(X, {\cal T}_X\right)$ is a finite set X together with a set ${\cal T}_X$ of unordered triplets of elements of X – called triples or blocks – with an additional requirement: every (unordered) pair of elements of X must appear in […]