Some animations in my videos are done by William Marler who is the same person who does animations for Tom Scott. I think Tom and I both met Will at the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture filming in 2019 (for which Will also did the title sequence).
Anyway, Will has put out a video showing where he has hidden all sorts of ridiculous jokes...
2021-01-04 14:55:18 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised. Thanks for your support.
From the video “Can you solve the banana puzzle?”. https://youtu.be/HW6AzfpgpY8
2020-11-23 15:19:04 +0000 UTC View Post
As you may have noticed my recent video was (juuust under) 40 minutes long. So first of all: thanks for your support so I could make such a beast of a video. It nearly killed myself, Alex (filming and editing) and Will (animations). We got there eventually!
The first rough-cut was actually much longer but I spent ages hacking it down to ge...
2020-10-02 17:20:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This starts with some bonus patreon footage I deliberately filmed. You can see it exactly flows off a shot from the main video (although I later had to extend the pause in the main video when I decided afterward to add a "total ellipse of the chart" there). This is me talking about why my approximations are so different for ellipses which are ve...
2020-09-05 15:34:39 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a two for one. ONE: The main video will be released publicly in about three hours from now. But I thought you might like an advanced look.
And if you do want to buy the book: I have a favour to ask. We are testing a new system where Maths Gear pushes pre-orders to Warehouse. We think it is all working but it would ...
2020-08-25 10:53:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a video message from me and a deleted scene from my video "What is the biggest tangent of a prime?"
Original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7eJb8n8zAw
Two more primes have been found which are bigger than the one mentioned in my ...
2020-08-24 17:57:25 +0000 UTC View Post
As you may have noticed, I just released a pair of videos with Grant Sanderson (of 3Blue1Brown fame) who is one of my favourite humans ever.
Watch the Stand-up Maths video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as7Gkm7Y7h4
Check out the meta-solution on 3...
As promised, here it is: the behind the scenes footage of the "Are Matt and James anti-psychic?" video. You can watch the original here: https://youtu.be/MrEECYAXRjs
As you can see, there was no cheating but we did have some help to stay in-phase.
And here is the fu...
2020-05-21 11:13:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I've just made a video with James Grime. We're both in lock-down here in the UK so we decided to make a feature of having to collaborate remotely.
While making the video I had a go-pro just out of shot filming the whole set-up. In 48 hours I will release that footage for my Patreon supporters only.
So you have two days to work out ho...
2020-05-18 17:15:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks!
I saw a lot of people were trying to work out how I filmed my latest two-Matts video, and most people got it right. But I thought it might be fun to see the exact details of my edit.
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCMVUROty0g 2020-04-17 16:52:57 +0000 UTC View Post
My new video is all about a mystery bug in the Apple Calendar which means the years and months start to break from 1849 and earlier. You can watch the whole main video at this URL (still uploading at the time of this post; will be processed and available soon!) https://youtu.be/ER1...
2020-04-03 22:17:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you so much for your support during this trying time. As you may have guessed all of my live performance work (and indeed work with schools) has been cancelled. So I'm pretty-much relying on on youtube as my only financial support!
That said: I totally understand that many people have it much worse than me. If you are feeling the fin...
2020-03-24 16:19:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, all of the working out from the end of our day in Newton's house. At least: all that we filmed. I thought it would be fun to just upload everything from Alex's camera (we only had a single hand-held camera in operation) so you can see me copy the terms onto the flip-chart as the team try to get as many done as possible before we get kick...
2020-03-19 14:12:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I had a lot of interest in how I made the video about the 02/02/2020 palindrome day. And yes, the Matt on the left of frame is flipped. I filmed it twice on the same side of the sofa.
The truth is: I only had one morning to film it and that included going to pick up the paper, markers, clipboard etc from the shops. I was in Seattle to do a...
2020-02-02 17:24:23 +0000 UTC View PostJust to let you know that I am doing a talk in NYC on Saturday 25 January! Sorry: it is only for people 21 and over (venue license).
https://www.caveat.nyc/event/matt-parkers-humble-pi-when-math-goes-wrong-1-25-2020
I’m thinking of doing a video about double-landlocked counties in the UK (and states in the USA) and want to use a bit of graph theory.
I think some networks showing how the counties/states all link, and then animating the networks into a more insightful arrangement would look nice and make a good intro to graph theory.
But that wo...
2019-11-14 12:29:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m in a pub with Katie Steckles, about to order infinitely many drinks.
We’re taking requests. If anyone has a favourite infinite series: let us know now!
2019-11-06 11:41:02 +0000 UTC View PostMy next video will be about trying to find a knot in the London Underground. Featuring: Sabetta, Henry, Vicki and Geoff.
This is an advanced release of the bonus video where we talk some maths and discuss the ‘rules’ for finding knot...
2019-09-17 13:30:39 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Fixed so the video is no longer private!
My new video about The Frog Problem is out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLTyX4zL2Fc
While Timandra and I were setting up to film the Frog Problem, fellow house-mate Rhys (the 'Morgan' of 'Morgan and...
2019-09-12 15:20:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I asked Polina why all helicopters have a piece of string attached to the outside of the windscreen. She explained why and then gave me a run through all the other instruments.
This is the bonus video from my main-channel video "Can we film a stroboscopic helicopter?
2019-09-11 13:32:58 +0000 UTC
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My helicopter video is finally out! Thanks for your support.
It took ages to edit and get sorted after we filmed this late last year. Captain Disillusion and I also realised we were working on very similar videos. So we've made this a micro-colab and both briefly appear in the other video. If you support Captain D on patreon you may have a...
2019-08-12 13:46:40 +0000 UTC View Post
It happened! I was able to get my next video out today. I actually filmed this last November when I was in the USA but have only just managed to get it finished and uploaded.
Part of why I could finally get it done was that I use spare Patreon support to get editing help. So this video is out now thanks to you!
As a sign of our thank...
2019-07-20 21:17:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! I'm back from a trip to Argentina and I have a glut of videos waiting to go out. First up was the "Are odd-numbered möbius-loop cogs possible?" video which I uploaded a few days ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWQwrU1qUrc
I removed a chun...
2019-07-20 12:33:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Here’s a sneak preview of my new video with Steve Mould. Let me know if you spot any major mistakes.
It will go live 3.5 hours after this post has gone up (at 14:00 in the UK, 9:00 East coast USA). Please do not share it before then.
2019-05-17 09:31:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve spent two days (well, 23 hours total, including sleeping) filming videos in Manchester.
We visited the illusion corridor which went viral a year or so ago. I’m just that on top of the trends (from late 2017).
If anyone can guess who else I was filming with this morning: I’ll release some spoiler footage early. I doubt anyo...
2019-05-11 14:53:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I filmed a quick chat with James when we were walking between two locations on the Difference of Two Squares filming day. We talk about walking places together and that one time we lived together.
2019-05-07 21:06:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, so I turned it on. And as expected it's deeply underwhelming. But you learn where I used to live in London!
Thanks for all your support. I took Lucie out to dinner to thank her for sacrificing part of our holiday so I could film a video. But which I mean: WE took Lucie out for dinner. She said thanks!
Original video here:
2019-04-12 21:14:06 +0000 UTC
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I just spent a day filming a maths video with a helicopter. A friend’s wife has her pilot’s licence and offered to take me for a fly if I needed a helicopter to make a video. I found a video idea to justify the flight!
Thanks to your support we could cover all the airport, fuel and film-crew costs to make (what I hope will be) an amazing vide...
2018-10-28 19:59:33 +0000 UTC View Post
My new video about how Monzo detect and stop bank fraud is out:
https://youtu.be/Kpl3BGYtY7g
But I had more footage of me chatting to Daniel than I could fit in! So here is the rest of the interview with me talking about his work and how he got into it.
2018-07-25 14:39:57 +0000 UTC
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We’re recording the DVD of “You Can’t Polish a Nerd” in London on the 27 and 28 June. I can give two free tickets to either recording to any of my Patreon supporters!
http://festivalofthespokennerd.com/show/ycpan-dvd-record/
Just ...