Maths YouTuber and author, Stand-up Maths
We retrieved 21 posts and 516 comments from u/standupmaths, dated 2011 to 2026, most often in r/math, r/Cubers and r/IAmA.
Do you have any mathematical beliefs that border on being crank-y?
As people who spend time laughing at bad mathematics, we're obviously somewhat immune to some of the common crank subjects, but perhaps that's just because we haven't found our cause yet. Are there any things that you could see yourself in another life being a crank about or…
Anyone else can’t seem to get rid of the “math voice”?
I grew up with and learnt English from math videos; 3b1b, bprp, numberphile etc and spent most of my time reading math papers because I enjoyed doing so. I’ve written a few papers (essays) myself, some for fun and some for school projects, my first being using Python to find…
Without loss of generality, we would like to apologise.
On “Ordered a Klein Bottle from Cliff Stoll. He sent a bunch of photos with the bottle and a really nice note. What a great guy. (Note in comments)”
I've seen this guy on Numberphile and thought he seemed like a really fun guy, this just confirms it! Thanks for sharing!
I can confirm that the Cliff you see in the Numberphile videos etc is exactly the Cliff you get in person.
Only more so. Real-life Cliff is up to an extra 61.8% more Cliff than Video Cliff.
On “It's me, Matt Parker, maths author, youtuber and creator of semi-adequate magic squares. A+M+A”
Was there anything that you had to cut from Humble Pi that you wish could have made it into the book? Also, congrats to Dr. Lucie on the successful launch of the solar orbiter!