Matt parker
[MICROPHONE FEEDBACK] -Is this thing on? [TAPPING] [COUGHING] -So a man walks into a bar. He asks for 10 times more drinks than everyone else. The barman says, now, that is an order of magnitude. MATT...
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MATT PARKER: 0 is a perfectly good number. And you ignore it at your peril. The problem is it's a dangerous number. And a lot of things can go horribly wrong with 0. And because it is a slightly more...
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STEVE MOULD: I'm Steve Mould. And I think we should stop using pi and start using tau. MATT PARKER: And I'm Matt Parker. And I think Steve said something ridiculous. I think pi is...
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MALE SPEAKER: So when you look down at that then, that's like an X. MATT PARKER: It is. It's one of my ex-favorite numbers. For a while, my favorite number was 3,435. And I say for a...
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TONY PADILLA: If you actually tried to picture Graham's number in your head, then your head would collapse to form a black hole. That's not just some sort of crazy sort of pictorial...
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RIA SYMONDS: We're talking about the number 16. 16's a very special number to me. It's my actual favorite number. MATT PARKER: One of my favorite numbers is 16. And a lot of...
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JAMES GRIME: They wanted to find out the number of moves it would take to solve the most difficult combination. And this number would be called God's number. If you have perfect knowledge of...
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MATT PARKER: All right. I'm going to show you a math card trick. It is a genuine math trick, there's no sleight of hand, there's no YouTubery. It's not a sneaky edit or...
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MATT PARKER: I'm going to show you two of my all-time favorite diagrams. And it's a way of linking numbers as they go from one to the next. And a lot of people will have heard of-- or...
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MATT PARKER: See, most people forgot about the Rubik's Cube back in the '80s, so it had its heyday and then disappeared. But mathematicians remain obsessed with it. KATIE STECKLES: I...
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