I have not made a big deal of it yet, but the International Astronomical Union (IAU) have named an asteroid after me! Behold minor planet 314159 is now called "Mattparker".
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=314159
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I've been making a video about the aperiodic monotile discovered last spring, and it could really do with a few extra pairs of eyes giving it a review. The video covers the discovery of the shape and how the definitions that it follows are what makes it so special. But it's pretty explanation-heavy, and I want to make sure it's easy to follow an...
2024-09-22 14:16:42 +0000 UTC View Post
My latest video was shot completely on 35mm film, which is partly your fault for enabling my ridiculous video ideas. https://youtu.be/QYUE696k6GY
As such, you should receive your share of the film. If you are a Statistically Significant supporter or higher, I will automat...
2024-08-26 21:49:29 +0000 UTC View PostFor example, "Matt mentions terrible Python code", "Matt has a drink of coffee", "Future Matt interrupts with a correction".
Add yours in a comment below - the resulting bingo cards may be used in a future video.
2024-07-12 12:59:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I know you'e probably sick of me talking about my book Love Triangle. But today is the last day where sales count towards the UK best-seller charts. So it you're in the UK, now is the most-impactful time to buy. https://mathsgear.co.uk/produc...
2024-06-22 18:01:38 +0000 UTC View Post
The geometrically accurate football campaign is back! My new plan is to try and convince the Premier League to change to a mathematically complicated ball which technically matches the UK street signs. All details are in the video.
I'm putting the video on Patreon first so you can give the petition site a stress test. We've built it oursel...
2024-05-22 14:04:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Heads up that we're back on Monday 02 December 2024 for another An Evening of Unnecessary Detail extravaganza at London's Cambridge Theatre (home of the Matilda musical).
Tickets have just gone on sale, so this is your warning to book some if you'd like to come along. I'll be around after the show to say hi, take photos and administer high...
2024-05-07 10:22:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm doing another show at The Bellhouse in Brooklyn on August 19. My book Love Triangle will be published in the USA on August 20 so this is a launch party of sorts. There will be copies of the book for sale and I'll be around to sign them. Or just come see the show!
My next book "Love Triangle" all about geometry and trigonometry is about to open for public pre-orders. I thought I'd give my fine supporters a small amount of warning in case you want to get in the ordering queue first.
2024-02-29 16:46:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Advance warning that I'm going to be in NYC for a one-off show on April 14 with Grant "3blue1brown" Sanderson and a few other friends. Emma Haruka Iwao, the current world-record-holder for most digits of pi will also be there to talk about her work, plus other great people.
Get tickets before they are released here: 2024-02-23 20:50:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the full working out, complete with some fun behind-the-scenes bits of me doing the long working out for the cube root of i. That said: it's not that long. Or maybe even that fun. You be the judge!
From this main-channel video: https://youtu.be/ErBbyLu-M94
D...
2024-02-13 19:25:02 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE: I will be at the "Miracle of Science Bar + Grill" near MIT on Sunday January 14th from 2pm to 3pm. Come and say hi! I'm sure my mystery hunt team will not miss me for an hour.
UPDATE PS: Thanks to everyone who came and said hello in San Francisco and LA!
Advance warning for a last-minute gig I'm doing in LA this...
2023-12-31 12:02:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I had a lot of fun making a pair of videos with the Climate Town channel. The Stand-up Maths one will premiere about ten minutes after this post goes live (on the half-hour) and the Climate Town video will go out on the following hour. So 12:30 and 13:00 if you're East Coast USA (16:30 and 17:00 here in the UK).
Stand-up Maths: 2023-10-30 16:19:00 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATES:
- They have fixed the site! There is now an image with the correct value of π and in a nicer font.
- Someone has taken photos of the wall and it does not match what was on the site! Update video: https://youtu.be/iW1MZWBZbQU
Latest video is about The Spher...
2023-10-25 09:52:48 +0000 UTC View Post
As many of you will know: I calculate pi a ridiculous way ever year for Pi Day on 14 March. Odd years involve a physical experiment whereas even years feature a tedious calculation by hand. And wouldn't you know it: 2024 is going to be an even year.
The plan is to break the 'world record' for most digits of pi calculated by hand, which is ...
2023-08-05 19:44:16 +0000 UTC View PostWe are about to announced a best-of-palooza An Evening of Unnecessary Detail in London on the 20 November. At London's Cambridge Theatre in Covent Garden (it's where the Matilda music is and where I did the show with Randall 'xkcd' Munroe for anyone who came to that).
We done a sneaky pre-announcement, along with a £5 off code, for people...
2023-07-01 11:22:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Just in case you missed it, I thought I'd share the unlisted reaction video to my reaction video.
Brady told me he had a new Parker Square video coming up on Numberphile and so I filmed a reaction video which was hidden as an unlisted video on the Numberphile second channel. If people watched to the end of the main video they would find it...
2023-06-14 12:14:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the extra footage of me talking about what else I tried to do to clean up the Parkerscope data.
Let me know if you have any suggestions for future use of the Parkerscope!
Main video here: https://youtu.be/IuUMxNfDfFY
2023-06-06 16:28:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll be back in New York City on the 13 July to do another show at Caveat. I mean, I'm there mainly to film some YouTube videos and help out on an education course, but it felt like a shame to not do at least one public-facing event.
Last time the tickets sold faster than anyone expected, so please do book them now if you'd like to come. O...
2023-04-28 09:37:22 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE_II: Ok, tentative fix. I changed some Patreon settings and if you go into your "manage membership" settings (or profile settings / shipping address) you should be able to add your address to your Stand-up Maths pledge. Let me know if that still isn't working! I'm only semi-convinced it's fully working.
UPDATE: A few peopl...
2021-07-30 15:33:11 +0000 UTC View PostOk, here's a fun maths fact that is so ridiculous it's making me angry. If you sew the two leg-holes of a pair of trousers together: the shape you end up with IS THE SAME AS A PAIR OF TROUSERS.
Fact 1: A pair of trousers is the same as a disk with two holes; which is to say a figure of 8. You can imagine cutting the legs shorter and shorte...
2021-07-19 18:42:47 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: The video has now been released! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq3P-LhlcQo Thanks for your help everyone.
Ok, there is a lot going on here! First of all: this is the very-rough cut of my next video. It is still missing a bunch of edits/transitions...
2021-05-11 21:35:31 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: All the emails with links to your three cards have been sent out. Some people had the great idea to also compare the cards they were emailed to the ones in the video!
In my video about Dobble (aka Spot It) I made a set of 10,303 cards and each card has 102 symbols. In theory, any pair of these cards will have exactly one symbol in ...
2021-04-30 00:43:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I may have over-promised this time, but in my latest video I have said I would do 52 perfect riffle shuffles during a Patreon live stream.
How is 5pm UK time for everyone? (That's GMT+1 = 9am on the USA West coast and 12pm on the East.) Wednesday 28 April 2021.
The live stream will be here: 2021-04-22 19:46:56 +0000 UTC View Post
In case anyone was curious, I have made a bonus video about how I produced the scrolling numberline of prime gaps. Spoiler: it was all done in a spreadsheet!
This video also reveals some terrible python code I will not be releasing any other way!
But you can download the Excel file. I'm prepared to share that. 2021-04-06 14:37:28 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: The final version of the video is out! Thanks for your feedback. https://youtu.be/SMsTXQYgbiQ
Hello. This is the video I am working on. You'll see the frame my previous post towards the end. No one guessed it was gaps between primes!
Anyway, this rough cut i...
2021-04-02 20:21:23 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: It was about the gaps between primes. Check out the rough cut now - https://www.patreon.com/posts/49551957
I was going through the 'production footage' of my next video and this paused shot made me laugh! The overlay plot is a mock-up I was using while f...
2021-04-01 18:39:10 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE2: Your fellow supporter Max Jäger has logged the time and details of every single attempt, with timecodes, in a spreadsheet. I declare them King of the Patreons! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XQ_bRCCk...
2021-02-05 21:49:35 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: The video out! https://youtu.be/8Ko3TdPy0TU Thank you so much for your feedback everyone; the video is far better for it. (Let me know if I've missed anything!)
Right. About 7.5 trillion people have requested that I make a video about the Dream speedrun of Minecra...
2021-02-02 00:46:54 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE! I have fixed the tree to display names with some punctuation marks and characters which were causing it to crash. If your video was affected you will be emailed a new link. You can also watch the second behind-the-scenes video of me fixing the problem: https://youtu.be/rGGm...
2021-01-05 23:26:54 +0000 UTC View Post