From Standup Mathematician. wwwh.umble-pi.com Please pre-order my book! It’s out 7 March 2019. Buy it from Maths Gear and be guaranteed a signed first edition hard back. https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/humble-pi But it is also available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Humble-Pi-Comedy-Maths-Errors/dp/0241360234/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&tag=stanupmath-21 Huffington Post article about 3.49 proposal: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-obamacare-changes_us_5894d9f4e4b040613136d98a?jhf5gjzdv58tcsor “According to sources privy to HHS discussions with insurers, officials would argue…

From Standup Mathematician. Join in the Superpermutation effort! The best place to start is the google group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/superpermutators This is where Robin Houston does his real job: Flourish Data Visualisation http://flourish.studio James Grime’s video: Superpermutations – Numberphile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJGE4aEWc28 A lower bound on the length of the shortest superpattern Anonymous 4chan Poster, Robin Houston, Jay Pantone,…

From Standup Mathematician. Thirdsday was created (discovered?) by Jim Propp! Read his manifesto here: https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2018/12/31/introducing-thirdsday/ He’s @JimPropp on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JimPropp Here is James Tanton’s video “How to Fold or Split Things into Thirds”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8cD5NMOMcs Check out the Think Maths resources to help calculate the digits of a third! https://www.think-maths.co.uk/celebrating-thirdsday And Evelyn Lamb has done a…

From Standup Mathematician. Huge thanks to Inder Taneja for crunching the numbers. I asked for a few number facts: they produced a whole paper. Inder’s work on their site: https://inderjtaneja.com/2018/12/31/2019-in-numbers/ The full PDF: https://zenodo.org/record/2529103 Here are text version you can copy of all the facts in the video: 2019 = (2×22+2/2)^2 −2−2−2 1+(1+1)^11 − (11−1)×(1+1+1)…

From Standup Mathematician. Humble Pi on Maths Gear: https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/humble-pi Get your free gift when you pre-order! https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2018/nov/humble-pi-preorder.html Here it is on Amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Humble-Pi-Comedy-Maths-Errors/dp/0241360234/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&tag=stanupmath-21 And Waterstones why not! https://www.waterstones.com/book/humble-pi/matt-parker/9780241360231 Right, now on to details about the actual video. All the photos of retro calculators are from this great website: My Calc DB http://mycalcdb.free.fr/main.php?l=0&p=1 I do not…

From Standup Mathematician. BUY IT! https://shop.festivalofthespokennerd.com/ If you think you know how we filmed this: comment below. I bet you’re wrong. Filming a stand-up show (even without a stupid extra feature) takes untold effort and money, which foolishly we supplied all ourselves. So we’d love it if you could exchange money for a copy. Get…

From Standup Mathematician. DVD, download and floppy disk available here: http://fotsn.com/ycpandvd Please buy it! Watch the section of “You Can’t Polish a Nerd” where I introduce the spherical camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgyI8aPctaI BONUS video with more spherical footage equations! https://youtu.be/ejcxDIfiZLY Check out Aaron’s github: https://github.com/montaga Thanks to Dr Ken for juggling help! https://dodifferent.co.uk/ Spoken Nerd also sell…

From Standup Mathematician. DVD, download and floppy disk available here: http://fotsn.com/ycpandvd Steve’s video here: https://youtu.be/C91gKuxutTU I make comedy shows about science with Festival Of The Spoken Nerd. Here’s a clip from our latest show where I use maths to live manipulate spherical footage. We also sell t-shirts and a bunch of other stuff. https://shop.festivalofthespokennerd.com/ If…

From Standup Mathematician. Thanks so much to the Royal Statistics Society, and Jen Rogers in particular, for letting me come along and hang-out at the conference. RSS: https://www.rss.org.uk/ JEN: https://www.jenniferrogers.co.uk/ Basic-level intro to capture-recapture sampling: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_ocr_gateway/green_world/ecologyrev2.shtml And some advanced-level details about multi-capture: https://projects.ncsu.edu/cals/course/fw353/Estimate.htm If you want to see my excel spreadsheet: here it is exactly…

From Standup Mathematician. Find the Anki Vector of your dreams here: http://bit.ly/standupmathsvector Vector is Anki’s first home robot with personality and they have sponsored this video and gave me a Vector (but I was free to make whatever video I wanted and state my unbiased opinions). So it’s technically #ad. And thanks to everyone at…

From Standup Mathematician. If you want to see the transfinite ordinals, then check out the Vsauce video “How To Count Past Infinity”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrU9YDoXE88 Here is Simon Pampena’s Numberphile video about algebraic and transcendental numbers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seUU2bZtfgM My personal favourite way to order and count the rationals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpwUVExX27E Watch James Grime show that the reals are uncountably…

From Standup Mathematician. Read the paper: “Daylight savings time and myocardial infarction” https://openheart.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000019 Pre-order Humble Pi on Maths Gear! https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/humble-pi You can also pre-order Humble Pi on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Humble-Pi-Comedy-Maths-Errors/dp/0241360234/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&tag=stanupmath-21 EU plans to scrap daylight savings: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-time/eu-seeks-to-scrap-seasonal-clock-changes-in-2019-idUSKCN1LU1O4 Thanks to my Patreon supports who do support these videos and make them possible. Here is a random subset:…

From Standup Mathematician. Original tweet by Julio Mulero @juliomulero on 11 September 2018: https://twitter.com/juliomulero/status/1039456605736185856 Previous tweet by Vincent Pantaloni @panlepan on 20 January 2018: https://twitter.com/panlepan/status/954694464697720833 Download Vincent’s Geogebra file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/in51f5dyxlzcn13/Lissajous-table-4×4.ggb?dl=0 Here is my near-missajous excel file. https://www.dropbox.com/s/e80jg8wnhgrjic3/parametric%20drawing%20SUM.xlsx?dl=0 Lissajous Curve on Mathworld. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LissajousCurve.html This is the turntable I used: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B012A0LK8S/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&tag=stanupmath-21 Thanks to my Patreon supports who…

From Standup Mathematician. Read the Nature paper for yourself: “Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05376-1 Thanks to Laura and Clara for helping me with the video! You can download Laura’s model for free or order a print from Shapeways: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3024272 https://www.shapeways.com/product/L4D27PP24/pair-of-packable-scutoids Laura Taalman, James Madison University https://www.jmu.edu/mathstat/people/faculty-full-time/Taalman-Laura.shtml Clara Grima, University…