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Matt Parker, comedian and mathematician, shows how four-dimensional shapes appear in a 3D world in this hands-on talk, featuring what is possibly the world’s nerdiest knitted hat!
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Discover how to make love hearts from Mobius strips, 4d frames from drinking straws and pipe-cleaners, and other maths tricks in this entertaining talk by Matt Parker. Matt explains how to know when someone’s throwing a 4d cubes at you and also what happens when your mum knits a three dimensional shadow of a four dimensional donut – to wear on your head, in this fun talk on the challenges of visualising the fourth dimension.
Matt Parker was an Australian school teacher before he moved to London where he works as a stand-up comedian and a maths communicator. He writes books, appears on radio programmes and TV shows, contributes to newspapers, makes school visits and gives live comedy shows.
This event took place at the Royal Institution on Tuesday 27 January.
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Hello, I am from Russia, less interesting is the scheme of knitting hats in this video. My mail alex.epischin1987@yandex.ru I will if there will be an answer.
please, anybody, give me scheme of knitting Klein hats. (send to mva.prog@gmail.com)
I want Klein hat, What email address do I need to write for the knitting pattern?
Народ, у кого есть эта схема шапки с числом пи? Я её хочу **
I want this hat! Do someone have a scheme?
48:58 that facepalm lol
Good example of "irregular" math teacher. I wish to have his clones at every school.
Just give me his mail, please!
Thank you, it was great !
Greetings from Russia !
I totally need to show the mobius loop part to my family, maybe even make my own hahaha
This is one of my favourite talks
Do you have a sudden urge to knit your own Klein bottle hat? No worries, friend, we've got you covered – https://www.dropbox.com/s/42b2gete2rfs8s4/Think%20Maths%20-%20Klein%20Bottle%20Hat.pdf?dl=0
When you said you got married last July I almost clapped out loud in my work cubicle where I was listening though headphones during lunch. (Clapping in my head is what I was doing the whole time.) Edit: Also 4D USB was super funny.
Can someone explain the maths trick to me? Make it simple.
Matt, what did you think of the American PBS math kids show Square One Television? That was one of my favorite TV shows as a kid in the 90s.
That person had a Casio, but that was no Gaxio.
An old video, but I just found it. I have watched many videos that try to explain the 4D concept. They always leave my brain feeling like it's been snapped in two. I just cannot grasp even the concept. This is the first time I've felt… just a tiny bit closer to understanding it. It's only like a millimeter that my understanding has moved, but that's more than it ever has before!
isn't that the beer Frasier's father liked?
Haha, why do Brits like to refer to Math in the plural, as if there's more than one? Literature, Biology, and Physical Education are all in the singular. I guess it may be because Mathematics is plural in form, but singular (Mathematics is, not Mathematics are) in quantity. We don't say that "Mathematics are fun."
After watching him it would be a hard choice to know whether you like him more or math more . He is good and he makes the subject great. .
You can use arguments to solve arguments. Nobody got that joke.
37:30 Underated joke
Where are my scissors damit!
his best friends name is trey stone
24:00, did you tell the CEO, what they did to the logo? ?
I saw a video where people made a 4d version of chess, and played a game of it
Mind blown
save some chicks for the rest of us!
Amazing
that's too much for me…
WTF ! I Got 26 !!!! 4:27
Did you mean nth dimensional maths? What's so special about 4?
Great speaker…Engages right from the beginning!
34 years old and im grinning at my shoes… ?
Mate your not funny or exciting but you are really annoying.
Strawart in the Book Nook ….st joes hamilton
This guy is the real reason they called in the Vogon Constructor Fleet.
I've beaten Matt by nerdiness of my clothing.
Step 1: Klein Bottle Hat, with the digits of Pi
Step 2: Mobius Strip Scarf, with the digits of e (Euler's Number)
Step 3: Pair of pants made into a double-holed Klein Bottle (the pockets come out and connect with the bottom of the pant legs), with the digits of the Golden Ratio
Step 4: Two-Hole Torus Shirt, with the digits of the square root of 2
How come RI has the same intro music as TED? That was confusing for a moment.
30:38
is that a Parker square?
My head hurts; auch.
The tube was ok for 4th dimension but how about a triangle twisted 180 degrees and then attached to itself and it then has 3 surfaces mobius and then cut it 3 times. I have no dexterity but I'm sure you'd have something amazing with the strips that are now all 3 bisected or just on the corners or down the center of each flat of the triangle.
English humour is a lot of dribble…which rhymes with drizzle. So basically they imitate the rain which is a incessantly irritating noise on your tin roof. Which sounds a bit lie his voice. But I did like his presentation which could have been summarized in a 6 dimension world in 30 seconds.
How about 0D, no mass no dimentions aka less than an atom in size or even a quark and you can't see it but it has a presence and that is all.
Mine is 970,299
That's Knot Quality
It hurts everytime I try to understand anything Matt says in any of his numberphile or other videos ??