2020-08-25

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Stand-up Maths

You can pre-order Tim's book How to Make the World Add Up now!

https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/how-to-make-the-world-add-up-signed-hardback

Watch Tim Harford talk about the Stork-Baby correlation on Numberphile:

/youtube/video/-n-d1ApBTFw

Here is the current Landmark Number recommended toolkit (yours may differ).

- population of the country you live in

- 'people days' per year in your countries of choice

- GDP or total government budget

- heigh of some buildings you have seen

- a human lifetime is around 30,000 days

- million/billion/trillion seconds

More about Tim Harford:

http://timharford.com/

Huge thanks to The Vintage Red Bus Company for lending us one of their fantastic buses.

https://thevintageredbuscompany.co.uk/

"Asteroid the size of a bus hurtles past Earth"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/asteroid-the-size-of-a-bus-hurtles-past-earth-9323762.html

CORRECTIONS:

- We were in front of a long version of the original Routemaster bus which I believe was technically 29.91 feet, but we were told 30 feet and that is an easier unit of measurement.

- Let me know if you spot any mistakes!

Thanks to my Patreons who mean I can hire a bus and then pay someone to animate a dinosaur walking behind it. Here is a random subset of those fine Patreon People:

Ben White

Jacob Hartmann

Nikola Studer

Morgan Butt

Alan H.

Kragar

John Lewis

Glenn Watson

James Hall

Philippe von Bergen

https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths

As always: thanks to Jane Street who support my channel. They're amazing.

https://www.janestreet.com/

Filming and editing by Trunkman Productions https://trunkman.co.uk/

Additional camerawork by Ben Westaway

Animations by William Marler https://www.wmad.co.uk/

Music by Howard Carter

Audio by Peter Doggart

Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson

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