Reposting an old video about Möbius strips for Valentine’s Day! Happy hearts day everybody 💕
A graph (not that kind of graph 📈) is a set of vertices and edges! I think graph theory is such a cool branch of math because anyone can play with a pencil and paper and work through this stuff on their own, and see what kind of drawings are possible!
If you’re a math lover (or a math hater🤷🏽♀️) you need this book!! It’s a math book plus so much more ✨ Math In Drag is available for preorder NOW! It’s available on Amazon in a lot of countries, also Barnes & Noble in the US, but also support independent bookstores when possible!! ❤️ @bookshop_org . If it’s not available in your country, you can get the ebook version straight from @hopkinspress ! We might still be able to get physical copies in stores if you find a bookstore in your country that wants to carry it 🙂 if so pls send me an email!
Let’s play a game!! I’m playing a 440 Hz sine wave and a 443 Hz sine wave. Can you guess which is which? If we play them together, something crazy happens, called dissonance! And even better, we can explain it with trig identities!!
What is mathematically the BEST song? What’s your take? This’ll be the last video in my math and music series… for now at least! Let me know if you guys have more questions! In the meantime I’ll be going down a new rabbit hole tomorrow 🫡😘
The four colour theorem: four colours are sufficient for colouring in a map so that no two adjacent regions have the same colour (adjacent meaning that they border at an edge with non-zero length, not simply a corner)
Part 5 of the math & music series! Last time we learned about perfect fifths, and this time we’re going to see how you can use fifths to build a pentatonic scale, one of the oldest and most important scales in history! With some samples of it in action at the end ➡️
Did you know it’s impossible to perfectly tune a piano! Here’s why!
We are TWO WEEKS AWAY from the release of #MathInDrag! Here’s just a small preview of topics that I touch on in the book!
What is the 1 thing that people get wrong about math? What’s your take on this? I sent an essay about this on my substack newsletter last week, you can sign up to my email list if you’re interested in my longer reflections !!
We’re one month away from the release of #MathInDrag 🫣‼️‼️ Have you preordered it yet?! Find all the links in my bio! @rupaulofficial I’ll buy yours if you buy mine 🥹👉🏽👈🏽
Exploring rhythms and odd time signatures!
Ever wonder how music gets put onto a vinyl record? It’s the ultimate collab between physics, technology, and biology! 👂🏽 ✨ I wrote a longer version of this post on my newsletter 💕The Math Queen Digest💕 which got sent out to everyone on my email list on Monday, but you can go read it on my substack (link in bio) and join my email list for next weeks newsletter!!
Can a kingdom be divided into 5 contiguous territories so that all 5 are bordering each other?
Math In Drag comes out MARCH 5TH!! Here’s the full story of how I got this book deal and what the process of writing was like!! Maybe after a few months I’ll do a follow up post telling you all about the process of marketing it😅😮💨 Available for preorder now!! 🤞🏽
Why it’s impossible to draw an x in a box with one pencil stroke, explained using graph theory!
Somehow I forgot to mention this fun fact about the four colour theorem when I made my first video about it! It was particularly controversial when it was proven since it was the first major proof that was assisted by a computer!
What is my book ABOUT? Each chapter explores a different branch of math through historical anecdotes and personal stories: – we’ll talk about my personal drag journey and my family 👨👩👦👦 – we’ll explore weird things that happen at infinity ♾️ – we’ll meet celebrity numbers that have changed history 🔎 – I’ll tell you all about how I met my husband 💍 – we’ll learn the math of strategy and games 🎯 – we’ll find out why geometry is really queer 🏳️🌈 – we’ll see how math gets political 👩🏽⚖️ … and so much more! #MathInDrag is NOT a textbook, it’s a memoir, manifesto, and history book, filled with riddles and math lessons! 🙂 Before I go, VOTE IN THE POLL! Do you think that an infinite supply of $1 bills and an infinite supply of $100 bills are the SAME, or are they DIFFERENT levels of infinity?
Anyone here used to watch my old YouTube wig tutorials?! Enjoy this wig styling vid I found in my drafts! Base wig from @jaymesmansfieldbeauty 💕
I got a lot of emails and messages about the four colour theorem video! I LOVE 💕 seeing your maps that you made to try to disprove it! We’re gonna go through some together and recolour them using only 4 colours … since the 4 colour theorem is true after all! Also a little note about world maps. It’s true that if you make exceptions to the premise of the theorem, then there will be exceptions to its conclusion! Can you think of any other possible exceptions?
EDIT: Giveaway is now CLOSED! Thanks for entering everyone!! 💕💕 My book Math In Drag comes out in 2 weeks! And I’m giving away 15 FREE SIGNED COPIES! 📚 I really really appreciate everyone’s support on this book launch! Whether or not you’ve been able to make a preorder, me and @hopkinspress want to give back! TO ENTER: ✨ follow me on instagram @onlinekyne ✨ leave a comment telling me your FAVOURITE NUMBER, and WHY! ‼️ No purchase is necessary to enter! 🎲 The 15 winners will be picked randomly. 🌎 Must have a US or Canadian mailing address to qualify. Giveaway ends Wednesday Feb 21st at 12pm EST. The 15 winners will be announced on my instagram page and via DM! (Careful of people impersonating me ok!) OK AND GO!
More beats! Last time, we looked at the math behind beats, which you can hear from frequencies very close together but not the same. But did you know you can hear them even when the frequencies are far apart, if their overtones are near each other? In this vid, we’ll listen carefully and hear beats on a piano, which is how piano tuners tune the keys! PS: if you’re wondering what the answer is from the previous video… it’s the first note that’s higher!
Breaking down my advice for students in the latest edition of The Math Queen Digest! This is my weekly newsletter on substack 🙂 subscribe & read the full thing @ the link in my bio! Do any of you guys write on substack or have any recommendations?! I’ve been writing for 3 weeks now and have so many ideas for essays to do!
In the last video, we saw how we can use math to tune a scale and determine what notes sound “good” when played together. But it actually gets a lot more complicated, because the math doesn’t always work out perfectly! Here, we’ll look at a different method of tuning called just tuning!
