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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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Cool stuff.
Happy Birthday!
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.
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