The Numberphile Podcast

The Parker Quiz - with Matt Parker

The Numberphile Podcast

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The Parker Quiz - with Matt Parker

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Matt Parker takes a quiz prepared by Brady. The YouTube version of this quiz contains a few visuals.

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Many of the links below contain QUIZ SPOILERS.

Matt Parker is standupmaths - his website has links to most stuff

Matt's books on Amazon

Matt's first appearance on this podcast

Matt's videos on Numberphile

Terry Tao on Numberphile

Good Will Hunting which is directed by Gus Van Sant

Two Numberphile videos about Good Will Hunting are here and here - featuring James Grime

Newton, Euler, Gauss, Ramanujan, and Turing

Newton videos from Brady's Objectivity channel

Millennium Problems

Festival of The Spoken Nerd, featuring Matt with Steve Mould and Helen Arney

Steve and Matt's YouTube channels

The Parker Square

The video which created the Parker Square legend

Parker Square T-Shirt

Bonnie Parker

Matthew Parker

Ernest Parker

Latin/Euler Squares on Numberphile

Parker Solar Probe

Lucie Green's PhD thesis

Edna Parker

Professor's Cube

Superbowl 50

Luc Longley

West Coast Eagles win the 1992 AFL Grand Final

The Malls Balls

Australia's Highest Point

And the lowest

Akshay Venkatesh

With thanks to MSRI

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