2022-03-14

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Stand-up Maths

For Pi Day 2022 I used the same method as William Shanks and we got π = 3.14159265358... you know, etc etc.

Huge thanks to my patreon supporters who make this video possible. Join in and you can also help enable my ridiculous ideas: https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths

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See more letters that Shanks sent the Royal Society over on Objectivity:

The Mathematical Spammer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yTXMeiVBCc

And I do some more maths about Shanks's other work on Numberphile.

Reciprocals of Prime Numbers - /youtube/video/DmfxIhmGPP4

Thanks to Kepier School for letting us use their hall. https://kepier.com/

The human calculator volunteers were:

Anitej Banerjee

Sam Basak

Thomas Beauchamp

Diana Bergerova

Lauren Billett

Sophie Bleau

Jasmine Burgess

Nick Campen

Hannah Charman

Matt Clough

Kelsey Hewitt

Max Hughes

Ben Hughes

Deanna Judd

Jeremy Kew

Christian Lawson-Perfect

Sophie Maclean

Max McCormick

Hazel Minty

Tilly Pitt

Matt Robinson

Matthew Scroggs

Richard Shackleton

Katie Steckles

Victoria Sun

Milosz Szymanski

Adam Townsend

Clare Wallace

Thanks specifically to the Council of Calculating Pi By Hand who helped me organise the event: James Grime, Christian Lawson-Perfect, Sophie Maclean, Matthew Scroggs, Ben Sparks and Katie Steckles.

CORRECTIONS

- We got pi wrong in the 12 decimal place. Apparently π ≠ 3.14159265358868...

- Viewer einyen1 is a true Shanks: they spotted two other mistakes in the printed version of pi. Thankfully William Shanks had them fixed back in 1873: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspl.1873.0010

- Let me know if you spot anything else!

Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash

Additional filming by James Hennessy

Music by Howard Carter

Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson

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MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician

Website: http://standupmaths.com/

US book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610964/humble-pi-by-matt-parker/

UK book: https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/humble-pi-signed-paperback