From Standup Mathematician. Count Binface is on tour around the UK in September and October 2024. Details and tickets here: https://www.aegpresents.co.uk/event/count-binface/ Tickets for An Evening of Unnecessary Detail NYC (and other London shows) here: https://festivalofthespokennerd.com/tickets/ This is the website I scraped the election data from: https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/parl.2024-07-04/uk-parliamentary-general-election/ But as of around 12 July 2024 it will…

From Standup Mathematician. Vote Count Binface for Bindependence Day! https://youtu.be/YwnacH0VNhQ?si=1wamTebLkBfT_NfU Make your vote count. https://www.thisvotecounts.co.uk Thanks to Dave Rowntree for taking time out on the campaign trail to help with this video: Dave Rowntree for Mid Sussex https://www.daverowntreeformidsussex.com Thanks to Count Binface to for taking time out from commanding great swaths of our galaxy to…

From Standup Mathematician. Get a signed first edition of Love Triangle from Maths Gear: https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/love-triangle-by-matt-parker-signed All UK options: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443151/love-triangle-by-parker-matt/9780241505694 All USA options: https://bit.ly/3wCTesR Huge thanks to Rollie and Jenn. Rollie’s Climate Town videos: https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateTown Rollie is an average pool player: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqVm2hbVs27MbFKr7IqZMuqgXjvMJ7pa0&si=4gGhuM3KGrr0Y-VH Jenn’s pool videos: https://www.tiktok.com/@jenn9mmbarretta We filmed at Jenn’s fantastic venue: Skyline Billiards and Bar.…

From Standup Mathematician. Pre-order a signed 1st edition of Love Triangle now: https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/love-triangle-by-matt-parker-signed All UK options: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443151/love-triangle-by-parker-matt/9780241505694 All USA options: https://bit.ly/3wCTesR Hugh thanks to the British Museum for getting the papyrus out of storage for me to see. You can watch the other non-papyrus video I made with them over here: https://youtu.be/WctTJVdsISE If you want…

From Standup Mathematician. Get your Sydler-shape limited-edition dust jacket now! https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/love-triangle-by-matt-parker-signed Here is the bonus video with all the details: https://youtu.be/cB18rgH5YaM See some of you at the Copenhagen Developers Festival, 28 August 2024 https://cphdevfest.com/ Thanks so much to Paul Catherall who made these beautiful prints. https://www.paulcatherall.com If you order Love Triangle on Waterstones you will…

From Standup Mathematician. Find out more about Jane Street’s programmes running across the world: https://bit.ly/sum-janestreet-programs Including the WiSE course which is open to self-identifying women and gender-expansive university students and incoming students: https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/programs-and-events/wise/ Check out KangarooPhysics’ original gif showing the cross-section through the packing arrangment: https://x.com/kangaroophysics/status/1491858072251342850?s=46&t=EVDbN01K_p7T27Gd23R0bw And Daniel Piker’s amazing 3D model: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/rod-packing-7directions-2-e56a6e899b2b4ef4bb458c66343363e4 More detail…

From Standup Mathematician. Sign the petition now! https://mathsballs.com/ Pre-order Love Triangle to read about the Impossi-ball. https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/love-triangle-by-matt-parker-signed Check out Jon-Paul’s balls: https://www.tiktok.com/@jonpaulsballs Huge thanks to Jon-Paul and Allison for making the ball and inviting us to their studio. https://12p.com/ Thanks to everyone at Liverpool FC for being so accommodating and friendly. Tim’s home sustainability tech…

From Standup Mathematician. Pre-order Love Triangle on Maths Gear now and get a signed copy! https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/love-triangle-by-matt-parker-signed Also, a special book cover if you’re fast enough. You’ll be fast enough. Video was inspired by this r/mathematics post and the discussion it lead to: https://www.reddit.com/r/mathematics/s/UNJaYMGGtS Huge thanks to my Patreon supporters. I’m a huge exponent of all…

From Standup Mathematician. Here is camman18’s YouTube short about the mystery: https://youtube.com/shorts/WvyVFSOD-uM?si=yeOzmMj6BD0a0E3c Huge thanks to Natalie for sending it to me! This is the bug report Oliver found: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-119369?focusedId=804740 Explore floating point errors yourself using the IEEE-754 Floating Point Converter: https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html My previous video about Minecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ko3TdPy0TU Thanks to my patreon supporters. They keep my…

From Standup Mathematician. Please note down the new value of pi: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223176 If you’d like to sign up to hear about future ridiculous maths projects that require volunteers: https://forms.gle/w44THpNJ3jWUPqHy6 Play list of all my previous calculating pi day videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhtC92GarkjyYbxI3-4qzIWIRbZaw4wuP&si=DzWXgnv_vYfDgiLZ This calculation was paid-for with surplus funding from a previous Stand-up Maths kick-starter. If you’d…

From Standup Mathematician. Check out Jane Street’s excellent Academy of Math and Programming (AMP). https://bit.ly/3T6gc3n Jane Street has put together a fun logic puzzle to get folks excited about the AMP program. You don’t need to complete the puzzle to apply – it’s just something fun to get you thinking! Check it out: https://bit.ly/sum-amp Here…

From Standup Mathematician. Do check out my video with Adam Savage over on Tested: https://youtu.be/s_F4uD8wAs0 Yes, I’m back in NYC for An Evening of Unnecessary Detail on Sunday April 14. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/matt-parker-an-evening-of-unnecessary-detail-tickets-847453715877?aff=oddtdtcreator Pre-order my new book! https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/love-triangle-by-matt-parker-signed The excellent graphics of spinning dodecahedrons were made by Ben Sparks. You can see the GeoGebra file here: https://www.geogebra.org/m/yhkepkbc…

From Standup Mathematician. Pre-order Love Triangle on Maths Gear now and get a signed copy! Also, a special book cover if you’re fast enough. https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/love-triangle-by-matt-parker-signed UK edition out 20 June, pre-order options: https://bit.ly/UKLoveTriangle USA edition out 20 August, pre-order options: https://bit.ly/3wCTesR Here are the fantastic GeoGebra files Ben Sparks made for the video. Modulated 1…

From Standup Mathematician. See you all in Wemding, Germany in 2033 for the next installation of this inevitable maths mistake. Thanks to everyone involved with Zeitpyramide who were hugely welcoming and accomodating. Official Zeitpyramyde website: http://www.zeitpyramide.de/ Check out Ayliean MacDonald’s excellent work on TikTok and indeed YouTube: @ayliean Four blocks done ⬜️ ⬜️ ⬜️ ⬜️…

From Standup Mathematician. Support "Doing Things the Hard Way Matt" on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths Full video of Doing Things the Hard Way Matt doing things the hard way is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/watch-full-doing-98412935 OEIS sequence A010527 "Decimal expansion of sqrt(3)/2" https://oeis.org/A010527 Do support the OEIS! https://oeisf.org/donate/ And here are a bunch of the digits: 0.8660254037844386467637231707529361834714026269051903140279034897 Wikipedia page…

From Standup Mathematician. Check out AMP or suggest it to someone who could benefit. And here is the puzzle: https://bit.ly/sum-amp Thanks to Jane Street for sponsoring this video! https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/ I’ll be doing An Evening of Unnecessary Detail at the Bristol Beacon, UK on Tuesday 12 March 2024. Come and celebrate Almost Pi Day with me!…

From Standup Mathematician. Watch this space for any updates on if the rainforest moths we found were new to science! Thanks to Rainforest Expeditions who organised our trip. https://www.rainforestexpeditions.com/ Full disclosure: we paid for our flights to Peru but Rainforest Expeditions provided our visit into the rainforest for free. We visited the Tambopata Research Center…

From Standup Mathematician. Yes, I’m doing a show in LA on Sunday January 7. It’s a bit last-minute. Come and say hi! https://www.flapperscomedy.com/shows/an-evening-of-unnecessary-detail/72865/ Huge thanks to Sammie for sharing her equations. Check out her work at Northumbria University: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/b/sammie-buzzard/ "A Mathematical Model of Melt Lake Development on an Ice Shelf" https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017MS001155 Sammie’s very good MATLAB…

From Standup Mathematician. Get your calculating christmas card! Support me on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths All Patreon supporters will be emailed a personalised card (deadline end of December, but sign up sooner for an earlier email) and "statistically significant" or higher get posted a physical signed card (deadline end of December but sign up by end of…