“I find it fascinating that regular shapes can go from there being infinitely many in 2D, to five and six options in 3D and 4D respectively, and then suddenly only three for all other dimensions. The problem with 2D is… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“There are only three Platinic solids in 5D. No problem; we'll check 6D. In six dimensions, there are still exactly the same regular shapes: the hypercube, simplex and cross polytope. Now that wasn't very exciting. We'll go on to 7D.… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“Along with working on the Basel problem, Euler realized that adding an infinite sequence of reciprocal powers for all whole numbers will give you… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“I was believing your kind were all dead!' Warvitch bellowed at the minotaur, over the sithkall's choking death growls. 'It will be a great… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“Despite their ubiquity on the number line, transcendentals are surprisingly hard to pin down. It took until 1873 to prove that e was transcendental,… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“The proof in 1882 that pi is a transcendental number put a 2,000 year old problem to rest: for any given circle, can you… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“The compact disc may now be outdated technology, but a lot of music albums are still released on CD. A standard 700-megabyte CD is… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“The zeta function is the sum of an infinite sequence of inverse powers.” — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“At a very rough estimate, the domino computer we built took six hours to set up and run, which means it could do four… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“In our current number system, if you multiply 111,111,111 by itself, you get the rather pleasing 12,345,678,987,654,321 (all the digits count up from 1… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“Much as it took Lucas to revolutionize the search for Mersennes primes and Lord Kelvin to introduce new ways to look for space-filling-shapes, I… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“For DNA to reproduce, it needs to unzip itself down the middle, and the topology of the dna chain dictates which knots are formed… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“To this day, the Clay Mathematics Institute's bounty of $1 million for anyone who can prove that all the non-trivial zeroes of the zeta… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“The Riemann Hypothesis states that all the non-trivial zeroes of the zeta function are on this line. If we can prove the Riemann Hypothesis… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“I find this whole area of packing problems hugely exciting. Humans know very little about the mathematics of packing objects into spaces. It seems… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“For our 2D square, this diagonal length is sqrt 2 = 1.414; …The diagonal from the centre of each padding sphere to the centre… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
