Time Quote by Matt Parker

When I do the dodecahedron with the science audiences, I'll point out that I can only do three of the five forms with bubbles,…

— Tom Noddy

“There is one packing puzzle which, I believe, holds the record for the longest time between the answer being discovered and proof being found…

— Matt Parker

The more I read, to me the more incredible everything is. Based on what I've read, there are all these other dimensional planes and…

— Dwight Schultz

If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We…

— Edward Witten

“There are only a limited number of sporadic groups, and one of them does indeed have the geometric interpretion with the highest number of…

— Matt Parker

“Much as Euclid proved that there can only ever be five 3d Platonic solids, over two millennia later Schafli proved that there are definitely…

— Matt Parker

“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

“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:…

— Matt Parker

In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and vertices) was…

— George Polya

The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.

— Israel Gelfand

If you look at the soap bubbles in the sink when you're doing dishes, you'll see the incredible diversity of shapes in there. There…

— Tom Noddy

“I hope you theorists know what you’re doing.’ ‘I can assure you that we don’t. The geometry is still beyond us. All I learnt…

— Greg Egan