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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Matt Parker
- City: London
- Country: United Kingdom
- Hometown: Perth, Australia
Current News
- What's Up? Matt's YouTube channel currently has over 534 thousand subscribers.
My Life
- Bio: Matt Parker is a stand-up comedian, #1-best-selling maths author and person who makes videos for the internet. Originally a maths teacher from Australia, Matt now lives in the UK but travels more than he probably should.
My Media
- Website: http://standupmaths.com
- Twitter: standupmaths
- Book Purchases: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610964/humble-pi-by-matt-parker/
- Book Purchases 2: http://www.amazon.com/Matt-Parker/e/B011A3VCXE/
- YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths
Contact Information
- Email: matt@standupmaths.com
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
As a former maths teacher Matt started the Think Maths organization to deliver engaging talks and workshops in schools. He is joined by mathematicians Katie and Zoe who also travel the country inspiring students to get excited about maths. Visit think-maths.co.uk or email info@think-maths.co.uk for more details.
The Think Maths team also produce free resources for maths teachers!
Matt is also frequently seen giving talks or comparing Maths Inspiration events: check the website for the closest one to your school. And in February each year Matt host Maths Fest, an all-day maths extravaganza for sixth-form students.
If you cannot get your students out of lessons to attend a show, Matt helped produce a range of Maths on Screen DVDs, featuring some of the best Maths Inspiration shows, all hosted by Matt.
On My Writing:
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Publications:
About Humble Pi, by Matt Parker
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
AN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICK
The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, “When am I ever going to use this in the real world?”
“Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very readable guide to some of humanity’s all-time greatest miscalculations—that also gives you permission to feel a little better about some of your own mistakes.” —Ryan North, author of How to Invent Everything
Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time this math works quietly behind the scenes . . . until it doesn’t. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences.
Math is easy to ignore until a misplaced decimal point upends the stock market, a unit conversion error causes a plane to crash, or someone divides by zero and stalls a battleship in the middle of the ocean.
Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the bizarre ways math trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.
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Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician's Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More, by Matt Parker
Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. Part of the problem may be the way the subject is taught, but it's also true that we all, to a greater or lesser extent, find math difficult and counterintuitive. This counterintuitiveness is actually part of the point, argues Parker: the extraordinary thing about math is that it allows us to access logic and ideas beyond what our brains can instinctively do―through its logical tools we are able to reach beyond our innate abilities and grasp more and more abstract concepts.
In the absorbing and exhilarating Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension, Parker sets out to convince his readers to revisit the very math that put them off the subject as fourteen-year-olds. Starting with the foundations of math familiar from school (numbers, geometry, and algebra), he takes us on a grand tour, from four dimensional shapes, knot theory, the mysteries of prime numbers, optimization algorithms, and the math behind barcodes and iPhone screens to the different kinds of infinity―and slightly beyond.
Both playful and sophisticated, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension is filled with captivating games and puzzles, a buffet of optional hands-on activities that entice us to take pleasure in mathematics at all levels. Parker invites us to relearn much of what baffled us in school and, this time, to be utterly enthralled by it.
Clips
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes...
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word...
Limned in cadenced song...
The Recôncavo is a smile inside an irony wrapped in a conundrum.
► The matrix originated as an extension of a record shop opened to divulge the little known music of the people of the Recôncavo and sertão of Bahia, Brazil (per this interview with David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio and hence a sugarcane cutter as our logo), along with other great Brazilian music.
► But in order to provide pathways from around the world to these largely unknown artists, the matrix has to do likewise for all artists everywhere.
