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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".

2024-09-24 17:17:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Patreons - I need your video feedback!

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 a...

Get your piece of 35mm film here!

My latest video was shot completely on 35mm film, which is partly your fault for enabling my ridiculous video ideas. https://youtu.b...

What would you put in a square on the Stand-Up Maths Bingo card?

For 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 ma...

End of first week of Love Triangle

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-impactfu...

Stress-test release of new football petition and video!

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 si...

AEOUD extravaganza back in London

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 go...

Matt in NYC: 19 August 2024

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 boo...

Pre-orders for my next book!

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 t...

NYC show: April 14 with Grant Sanderson

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 dig...

Watch the full Doing Things the Hard Way Matt working out

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 th...

USA: LA, SF + MIT

UPDATE: 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.

U...

Live Premiere with Climate Town!

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 vi...

Vegas Sphere help!

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!...

Volunteers needed for Pi Day 2024

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 wou...

Advanced access to London AEOUD tickets

We 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 ...

Parker Square News: a squared reaction

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 rea...

Bonus Parkerscope data chat

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 v...

Show in NYC on 13 July.

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 ...

Everybody gets a balloon!

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...

Can anyone animate my trousers?

Ok, 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.

Which Hypercube Unfoldings Tile Space?

UPDATE: The video has now been released! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq3P-LhlcQo Thanks for your help everyon...

Monomatch Myriad: help me verify it works

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 abou...

52-shuffle live stream 28 April 2021

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...

Bonus video: how I made the scrolling numberline

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 terr...

Rough cut: PRIME LINE

UPDATE: The final version of the video is out! Thanks for your feedback. https://youtu.be/SMsTXQYgbiQ

Hello. This is the v...

What is Matt working on?

UPDATE: It was about the gaps between primes. Check out the rough cut now - https://www.patreon.com/posts/49551957

Minecraft probability video: Every. Single. Take.

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! 2021-02-05 21:49:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Rough-cut for feedback: Minecraft Dream video

UPDATE: The video out! https://youtu.be/8Ko3TdPy0TU Thank you so much for your feedback everyone; the video is far better for it...

Behind the tree.

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 wat...