I do mathematics and stand-up. Sometimes simultaneously. Occasionally while being filmed. (It's quite the Venn diagram.) You can send business stuff to sophieclaire@miradorgroup.co.uk and maths to matt@standupmaths.com (but everything gets to me one way or another). I'm also in these places: http://standupmaths.com http://twitter.com/standupmaths https://m.bilibili.com/space/475271755
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If you're applying for INSIGHT in Hong Kong, applications close on November 8th, 2026. For London, you have until January 3rd, 2027. Previously, in the Prime Realm Fractran interpreter in Fractran Thanks to Chaim Goodman-Strauss for introducing me to Fractran. They do all sorts of great stuff.
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27:54720K views · 22d ago · 27:54
An Evening Unnecessary Detail, Monday 30 November 2026 Come Fry With Me show in 2027 If you’re anywhere near NYC and could join in one or two silly maths things there in January 2027, log your interest here Watch Hannah’s video “How would Alan Turing have played the Traitors?”
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📰 Mentioned news: The Celebrity Traitors is on the BBC and you can watch on BBC One or iplayer the UK
18:301.4M views · 1mo ago · 18:30
Here’s the reddit thread where this all started Here’s Babish’s Youtube video with the big surface area ‘claim’ And big thanks to Ben Sparks for making the helicoid GeoGebra plots! Check him out here CORRECTIONS 3.01 - the correct form of the area of a circle is of course pi x R^2, not 2 x pi x R^2. If only integration were more straightforward. (Thanks simonlitvinskii1898 for spotting it!)
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23:291.4M views · 1mo ago · 23:29
Want more of the Matt tries to go on vacation saga, come right this way The initial Tristan Buckmaster post on Mastodon OpenAI announcement about Navier Stokes The Clay Mathematics Institute page for Navier Stokes Grant's comments are on the end of his latest 3blue1brown video
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16:111.2M views · 2mo ago · 16:11
Special thanks to Dr Clara Nellist for making the time to hop on a call with me and brave the outside conditions above the LHC. Clara can be found at @ParticleClara on Youtube You can find the full, un-cut maths over on my second channel @mattparker2 So much integration, so little time.
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19:502.7M views · 2mo ago · 19:50
Stanley P. Y. Fung’s original paper can be found here Along with an addendum to paper answering all of your burning questions here The viral video of sorting algorithms visualiser and sonifier is here And more info on the sonifier
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📄 Mentioned papers: arXiv 2110.01111
23:08364K views · 2mo ago · 23:08
Jane Street runs internships in New York, London, Hong Kong and now their Singapore office as well! Find out more and apply for 2027 internships here Read the paper here The original “Can the Same Net Fold into Two Shapes?” video
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11:01802K views · 3mo ago · 11:01
Thanks to Count Binface for being a part of this video and a part of British democracy And to Captain Disillusion for being the hero we deserve but not the one we need right now For more (non-election related) unnecessary detail, tickets for upcoming London shows are available here
20:32519K views · 4mo ago · 20:32
New York City’s An Evening of Unnecessary Detail on July 12th, get your tickets here Thomas Bloom’s site documenting the Erdős problems A full state of play (up to June 30 2026) on AI contributions to Erdős problems can be found here
📄 Mentioned papers: to the paper on Arxiv · Paper on arxiv.org · arXiv 2605.28781
27:33544K views · 6mo ago · 27:33
Learn more and apply to Jane Street’s WiSE program in New York, London, or Hong Kong There is just enough time to support the tour filming Kickstarter before it closes, for ridiculous perks And you can be there for the filming or the pre-filming tour in October
▶️ Mentioned videos: Noel Friedrich's video about how annoying this paper series is · Ayliean visited the missing bridge!
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Or you can just come and see me on tour in October More about Adam Townsend Yes, he did the maths for the coin combinations video Thanks to Ayliean for tracking down the low bridge signs. Here is her channel As well as Ayliean MacDonald, thanks to Sophie Maclean, Abby Shum and Matt Watson for embracing the bridge-sign side mission while we were on tour.
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16:18686K views · 7mo ago · 16:18
Try Jane Street’s neural net puzzle And learn more about their Machine Learning team and open roles here The artwork for the SUMTG cards was created by Tabitha Grove Thanks to Matthew Franklin for suggesting the video topic.
26:30395K views · 8mo ago · 26:30
Happy Pi Day! The new value of pi is 3.2266. Pi-by-hand is happening - at some time in the future - at some location! Please opt-in for updates and tell us which places would work for you Huge thanks to Jim Propp for discovering this amazing bit of maths. For more math details For the backstory
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15:56135K views · 8mo ago · 15:56
Thanks to everyone who supported the Kickstarter - you can still purchase more patches but all name changes are now closed! Head on over to to check your status. Thanks to the great people at Astrobotic Technology. Find out more about Cuberover and the mission here
20:05890K views · 8mo ago · 20:05
Applications for AMP are open until 11th March! The full puzzle is pasted below. Come and see me on tour - live and undithered! And this great demo by Visual Rambling CORRECTIONS Nothing yet. Let me know if you spot anything!
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21:40364K views · 8mo ago · 21:40
Come see me on tour to get your mathematically dubious cereal boxes signed. You can also find me talking about other unreleased video topics at An Evening of Unnecessary Detail. And MindYourDecisions video looking at the surface area problem
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Jane Street’s Hong Kong internship is accepting applications now As well as calculating Pi on the Moon, I'll be back on tour again in the new year CORRECTIONS None yet, let me know if you spot anything! Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash Animations by Willow Marler Written and performed by Matt Parker
23:11554K views · 11mo ago · 23:11
Print out your Nopert with the Bambu Lab X1C Combo Tom7’s full set of printable 3D models for all Platonic, Archimedean and Catalan solids Here's the paper announcing the Noperthedron My 2014 where I write about Prince Rupert's Cube: "Things To Make And Do In The Fourth Dimension"
📖 Mentioned book: Book on Amazon
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📄 Mentioned papers: 's the paper announcing the Noperthedron
17:20410K views · 11mo ago · 17:20
Here is a copy of my spreadsheet Thanks to Sugarland Studios for hosting the first half of our fashion shoot CORRECTIONS None yet, let me know if you spot anything! Filming by Alex Genn-Bash Additional Filming by Matt Parker Editing by Alex Genn-Bash Written and performed by Matt Parker
20:45220K views · 11mo ago · 20:45
See my show in London on 1 December 2025 Other show details for the 2026 tour here Or have been signed up by November 2024 to get the RGB postcard from the past. I wrote about Simplex Noise in my book Love Triangle. Math Gear (signed)
📖 Mentioned book: Book on Amazon
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Thanks to Past James Grime for making the original video with Past Matt. Here is the plan for the seven-colour mug design. It's an image from my book Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimention. Huge thanks to Eugénie von Tunzelmann for her visually digestible transformation of a mug with three holes And to Morgan and West for their gastronomically digestible transformation of a mug into a pretzel. You can see more of Rhys' work here And more of Rob's work here
19:23273K views · 1y ago · 19:23
If you are in the USA you can watch The Snake episode 10 on Fox. For other countries: I cannot help yar out. IMDB listing for The Snake episode 10. First person to send this to me was Andrew Rupprecht. Links to all of my collaborators
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▶️ Mentioned videos: The Mathstronaut aka Space Matt is the Moon Pi project video · Beard Matt was last seen playing basketball · Business Matt pops up a lot but is rarely allowed outside · Matt_2 has whole own channel!
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Thanks so much to Mark Brittenham and Susan Hermiller at University of Nebraska at Lincoln for talking me through it. CORRECTIONS None yet, let me know if you spot anything! Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash Written and performed by Matt Parker
📄 Mentioned papers: the paper
24:38503K views · 1y ago · 24:38
Learn more about the Jane Street internships at Ben's Zener Test Huge thanks to Ben Sparks (and their brother Tim) for making the site, collecting the data and sharing the story with me. You can book Ben to give a maths talk in your school, university or magic society
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