Wisdom Quote by Matt Parker

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The compact disc may now be outdated technology, but a lot of music albums are still released on CD.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

“The zeta function is the sum of an infinite sequence of inverse powers.”

— Matt Parker

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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