“Along with working on the Basel problem, Euler realized that adding an infinite sequence of reciprocal powers for all whole numbers will… — Matt Parker Prime Number 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… — Matt Parker Death 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… — 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,… — Matt Parker Straight edge 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“The compact disc may now be outdated technology, but a lot of music albums are still released on CD.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… — Matt Parker Music 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… — Matt Parker Computers 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… — Matt Parker Technology 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… — Matt Parker Lord Kelvin 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… — 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… — 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… — Matt Parker Prime Number 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.… — Matt Parker Mathematics 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… — Matt Parker Big sur Copy Share Image
“There is one packing puzzle which, I believe, holds the record for the longest time between the answer being discovered and proof… — Matt Parker Time Copy Share Image
“An anonymous sponsor has put up the cash via an organization called the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a bounty on prime numbers:… — Matt Parker Prime Number Copy Share Image
“All prime numbers are one more or less than a multiple of 6.” — Matt Parker Prime Number Copy Share Image
“I find it fascinating that regular shapes can go from there being infinitely many in 2D, to five and six options in… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“If you recall, in Ramanujan's letters to English mathematicians, he claimed that 1 + 2 + 3 +...= -1/12. He was so… — Matt Parker Divergent series Copy Share Image
“This quest to take a problem and see what happens in different situations is called generalizing, and it is this force that… — Matt Parker Adventure Copy Share Image
“The problem is that many mathematicians have done the same thing Riemann himself did: surged ahead using the prime counting method ,… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“In the chapter on prime numbers, I mentioned Bernhard Riemann's 1859 paper 'On the Number of Primes Less than a Given Magnitude'.… — Matt Parker Mathematics Copy Share Image
“There are only a limited number of sporadic groups, and one of them does indeed have the geometric interpretion with the highest… — Matt Parker Friendship Copy Share Image
“Much as Euclid proved that there can only ever be five 3d Platonic solids, over two millennia later Schafli proved that there… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
