When I see or read stories like this my thought is usually that the publishers themselves are idiots and didn't get it initially, so assume that everyone else must not get it too. Cuz if you think about it, what kind of person even remotely interested in reading a book about math *wouldn't* get it, and what kind of person who wouldn't get it would be remotely interested in reading a book about math?
Matt should power up that bit, hook it up to the internet and allow people to flip it. He knows his way around a Raspberry Pi so that shouldn't be a problem. And then a year later a video about how many people set it to 0, how many set it to 1, all the correlations with where people live, what time of day they did it etc. Should be fascinating.
I gave Matt's book Humble Pi to my father for Christmas. I thought he'd really appreciate the book since his career was as a university professor in research methods. As is his standard, he called me one day to say he has a book I might be interested in reading, having forgotten that I had given it to him in the first place. At least I know he liked it enough to recommend it.
There is a german Drag Queen and comedian which artists name is Jurassica Parka. So there are at least some people who have thought of this joke, you are not alone!
10:50 well, obviously. It wasn’t a best seller in the US because most of us who who follow Matt couldn’t wait that long, and bought the UK version with international shipping rather than waiting for the US edition. Also, signed by Matt. And the “plane” cover page of course.
Oh hey, publishers think we Americans are dumb..... Yeah they were probably right Brady you should try to get other people on for this. Off the top of my head Mark Rober, Destin (Smarter Every Day), Adam Savage (if you can get Matt to set you up with him)
I got both for the collector's value, and found my way to an early release copy for critics via eBay. Then liked it so much I did the same with TTMADIT4D. He made me into a book collector. Next up Hannah Fry.
I'm reminded of the story of the Monty Python book with a plane white dust jacket coated in intentional fingerprint smudges. The publisher received a phone call from a British woman saying she had received a shipment of dirty book jackets and that she needed clean ones sent to her. She refused to understand that the fingerprints were intentional.
To be truthfully honest, I've listened to Humble Pi on Audible (so have seen that cover many times) and have never once noticed the planes wings were on backwards, so even thought about it...
Brady: "Why did you choose a meteorite as your ring...?" Sixty Symbol viewers: "Because Iron is the only element that kills stars." @Matt/Lucie , you are great!
Admiral Grace Hopper used to give away ‘nanoseconds’ at her lectures, they were just bits of wire about a foot long. Matt should get one of those (obviously easy enough to make), then he’d have a bit and a nanosecond.
I of course got both the Kindle and Audible editions of Humble Pi as soon as I could, but the Kindle is the American version, since I'm in the US. So, I followed the link in the description above to the UK print version, and have now ordered it. This makes me quite happy. I encourage anyone who likes audio books to get this one, as it's read by the author, almost always a big plus...so to speak. It's great for a commute.
Everyone has already noted the many great moments in this episode. Allow me to add two more: 1. Hi, Lucie! Good to see you and Matt are still rockin' it! 2. I love seeing other sides of folks who have their own channels, beyond what their channel reveals. Of course, Brady just starts another channel when that urge strikes.
I laughed when you told us about the reason for the cover change. But then I thought, the assumption that a US audience wouldn't understand the joke was made by the publisher based on a prejudice. And this change and even the story propagate the "American's won't get it" prejudice.... Separately, this was great, you guys should do a podcast together!
yet, there are people in this very comment section, presumably Americans, and presumably relatively intelligent (at least interested and familiar with Matt) that confess to not having realised... I'm now honestly more weary of any comment here that tries to explain any of the math or history in the videos...
I have "1984" book which has everything inside except for the cover flipped. So, when you are reading it everyone around thinks that you are doing it upside down. I'm pretty sure this is a publishing error but I think it fits the book perfectly.
Growing up we had a Hardy Boy book that was printed with page 1 in the back. So it was read back to front. But the left page was read before the right page like normal. Very hard to get the page flips correct.
Huh, humble pi will come out in German soon. Of course, I already have the English edition, but I'm surprised it's getting translated. Congrats on being successful Matt!
I'm not sure you can "not have a favorite film" and also own a toe from a T-Rex skeleton AND a storyboard card from Jurassic Park. I'm pretty sure we all know what your favorite film is at that point. (Edit: Oh right, and a semi-pristine VHS copy. That's not quite as impressive, I suppose.)
Meteorite Rings: Spouse when we were choosing rings & after we had watched Blood Diamond said to me "I don't want something that has been pulled from the earth at the cost of peoples lives" I suggested "What about something that fell from the sky?". So our rings are made from fragments of that same meteorite, mine it is set in yellow gold (recycled from old PCB connectors), spouses in white gold (from Canadian mines)
• 13:09 - In the book, Matt keeps saying "roll-over errors", but computer people call them "integer overflow/underflow errors". • 13:31 - No comment needed; the implication is painfully obvious.
Maybe, but as a computer person I understand exactly what he means, and to the best of my knowledge it won't be confused with any other computer term. Overflow makes some sense, but I never really liked underflow apart from its symmetry.
I'm American, I have been watching Matt on Numberphile for years, and I no joke only noticed that the wings were backwards when Brady said it. I hate that the publishers were right. Us dum dum Americans wouldn't notice that the wings were backwards on a plane, so they dumbed it down to square wheels on a bike.
From an aesthetic viewpoint I do enjoy the square-wheeled bike/trike (whichever) image more than the humorously flawed plane! I did buy the wheel one when it came out, even though I already had the plane one, since you said there were more stories!
I really do not understand why US publishers insist on translating UK English to US English. I was born in the UK, educated in NZ, live in the US and worked with engineers spread in a number of different countries. Over the years I have assimilated colloquial English words from most countries that speak the English language - in most cases I know about half a dozen different (English - sort of) words that mean the same thing. Living in the US I realize that most Americans only know things by one name and if you use a colloquial English word common in some other country in conversation you just get a blank stare from the person you are talking to. My guiding principle that I have to apply is to ask myself "What would Bart say?" - The Simpsons is my reference for US English. I find it interesting that if a talk to someone in for instance in India and use some colloquial English word common to say Canada or South Africa, then in most cases I find that generally English speaking people outside the US are somewhat familiar with all the different names things have in every English speaking country. US publishers think that they are helping by insisting that all books are translated into US English, however this practice does seem to have the effect of keeping the general US public from ever being exposed to the vast array of alternative English words that the rest of the English speaking world tends to use without too much difficulty. I think that it would be a lot more useful if US publishers simply retained the original English text and simply added foot notes to explain the details they thought might not be understood by the US public.
@7:30 What other metal would you use? I'd say tantalum: it has the rarest primordial isotope in it: 180mTa which is also the only naturally occurring nuclear isomer (excluding radiogenic and cosmogenic short-lived nuclides), and it is actually rather well suited for making rings.
I live in the states and I LOVE the subtle humor about why things are different on the subject of the book cover and the disclaimer about page numbering. I want a copy of the non-American print. :) btw. This is the first of your videoes I've seen and I have subscibed and clicked notifications. Going to watch more of your videos now. Great vid!
I think the US publisher was worried about nothing. Anyone who would be at all interested in reading the book probably knows enough to understand the cover and the page numbering. Ah, yes. The old "code a loop that terminates when the index is less than zero but define the index as an unsigned integer" trick.
I was hoping the same thing, but take a browse through the comments. Even here I've already found like ten people admitting to not spotting the wrong wings.
I was visiting Norway (from the US) and was using the loo in a rural restaurant. On the wall was a small water heater with "Caution: Hot" warnings printed on it in a variety of languages. The last line was in English and said "Caution: Hot. Do not touch." Yes, my fellow Americans need stuff explained to them. Sigh.
I think that page number thing is only moderately subtle to begin with, it feels kind of condescending to add that disclaimer. Surely if you notice that the page numbers are going the wrong way, you don't need a disclaimer to figure out that it's intentional in a book about maths gone wrong? I'm now curious if the Americans "need" that disclaimer, or if there's an unstated subconscious snobbery that makes non-Americans assume the Americans need it.
Haha I'm in the States and its true. People here can be dumb as a sack of hammers. So may times I have to explain how humidity works to grown adults (for a humidifier). Shame this place has become such a laughingstock. Some of us have brains though, not all is lost!!! That bit was fascinating!
Would the type of person that doesn't notice there's something wrong with that plane be the type of person to buy a book an maths anyway? Or even the type of person to buy a book full stop?
Matt said he has no favorite film -- but if he did it would be Jurassic Park, and he paid 2x for it, and he owns >1 production artifact. That sounds like a favorite film, right? I mean great film, great choice, why deny it?
Oh those God damn page numbers, I made the index for this book and you would not believe how difficult it is to program a computer to emulate common programming mistakes without going completely spare. I hope you all find it extremely funny.
I don't think anyone buying your book in the states would have taken the book back because the page numbers were reversed, but the publishers have to deal with people that buy all manner of books so they could have had experiences that warranted their fear. It's a big country filled with a lot of people many of whom don't have a sense of humor.
I like Matt's wife. "What other metal would you make wedding rings out of?" Wonderful! (Matt has a treasure in her. How many other women have that sense of value?)
Hi, I'm an American. I'm so ashamed I never noticed the wings are on the plane wrong. I always thought it was a funny looking plane, I never really thought about why.
B: "You got one for the price of two!"
M: "Exactly! And I had to negotiate him up to that."
_sigh_ Parker Negotiation
I wonder if the dude just didn't get it at ALL, or assumed Matt wanted to pay just 50 cent and was having none of it.
Is Parker Negotiation related to Nash Equilibrium?
Links to a Parker Square???
- "Hey, nice byte!"
- "Yeah, you can have a bit!"
golden
I like the fact that Brady still wore gloves....despite several walls and miles being between him and the objects
Given the changes the publisher made, I'm surprised they let him release a maths book in the US at all.
Editions sold in Indiana have the value of Pi corrected to 3.2
@@gregkrobinson I love this little bit of trivia :D
When I see or read stories like this my thought is usually that the publishers themselves are idiots and didn't get it initially, so assume that everyone else must not get it too. Cuz if you think about it, what kind of person even remotely interested in reading a book about math *wouldn't* get it, and what kind of person who wouldn't get it would be remotely interested in reading a book about math?
@@GiddeonFox I would bet a shiny new nickel that the British publisher got lots of complaints about the page numbers from British readers.
@@gregkrobinson Lol, I would of thought it would be 16/5ths >.
The Parker Square T-shirt in the background, of course... Just give the man a break, Brady! 😝
At least start selling them again if you are going to flaunt it like that.
Should have had Matt check if sequence A247698 is in the EIS.
Matt should power up that bit, hook it up to the internet and allow people to flip it. He knows his way around a Raspberry Pi so that shouldn't be a problem. And then a year later a video about how many people set it to 0, how many set it to 1, all the correlations with where people live, what time of day they did it etc. Should be fascinating.
I gave Matt's book Humble Pi to my father for Christmas. I thought he'd really appreciate the book since his career was as a university professor in research methods. As is his standard, he called me one day to say he has a book I might be interested in reading, having forgotten that I had given it to him in the first place. At least I know he liked it enough to recommend it.
I'm looking forward to seeing the same video but with Keith showing off his personal collection!! will you do it? please?
They missed joking about "Jurassic Parker"...
Or is that just my kind of humor?
There is a german Drag Queen and comedian which artists name is Jurassica Parka.
So there are at least some people who have thought of this joke, you are not alone!
I came to the comments to make this one, but you beat me to it. Might make a great Tee Shirt “Jurassic Parker.”
Thats some Parker Humor right there and thats my type of humor
love how the US publishers know their audience
I hope the second edition of the Murican version includes a 500 page foreword explaining how mathematics works. I'll be completely lost without it.
and a little shiny leaflet stuck on the front about how to read books.
With lots of pictures 🤦
I'm very jealous of Matt's bit.
Bit from Adam Savage no less!
10:50 well, obviously. It wasn’t a best seller in the US because most of us who who follow Matt couldn’t wait that long, and bought the UK version with international shipping rather than waiting for the US edition. Also, signed by Matt. And the “plane” cover page of course.
Oh hey, publishers think we Americans are dumb..... Yeah they were probably right
Brady you should try to get other people on for this. Off the top of my head Mark Rober, Destin (Smarter Every Day), Adam Savage (if you can get Matt to set you up with him)
This is a brilliant format for lockdown
Or just about any of the Numberphile / Sixty Symbols / Periodic Videos / Deep Sky alum[s|ni|nae|nus] !
Don't forget Keith!
Show and Tell, 2.0
Very glad I paid to have the UK edition shipped here to Canada.
Me too! Well, to Minnesota, but that's almost Canada.
I got both for the collector's value, and found my way to an early release copy for critics via eBay. Then liked it so much I did the same with TTMADIT4D. He made me into a book collector. Next up Hannah Fry.
@@Rabbit-the-One we're acronymising Matt Parker book titles now? Cool
@@JBLewis Me three, also to Minnesota (aka "Canada Light"). I think I might know this fella ...
Man...way too short. I love you guys' dynamic
seriously, felt like the video was 5 minutes long
I'm reminded of the story of the Monty Python book with a plane white dust jacket coated in intentional fingerprint smudges. The publisher received a phone call from a British woman saying she had received a shipment of dirty book jackets and that she needed clean ones sent to her. She refused to understand that the fingerprints were intentional.
To be truthfully honest, I've listened to Humble Pi on Audible (so have seen that cover many times) and have never once noticed the planes wings were on backwards, so even thought about it...
Well I think it's safe to assume you'll never be able to do this sort of video with Grey. We all know how much he loves to collect things.
*I didn’t realize the plane wings were wrong. My brother is in the RCAF. I’ve followed both these guys since their Numberphile days.
"Cool things that Matt Parker has" is something I have certainly wondered about when watching his videos.
Steve Mould next!! I loved this format!
You can actually ride a real bike with square wheels in NYC museum of mathematics in Manhattan!! It's cool!!
I didn't know this existed, thank you!
I remember the video with the statue, but I completely failed to register that it was Lucie!
Hey, it's the first time I've looked at the cover of Humble Pi closely enough to realize that the wings are on backwards.
You're the reason they had to use the square bike cover
@@juanjoquispe6600 I AM American...
Brady: "Why did you choose a meteorite as your ring...?"
Sixty Symbol viewers: "Because Iron is the only element that kills stars."
@Matt/Lucie
, you are great!
Admiral Grace Hopper used to give away ‘nanoseconds’ at her lectures, they were just bits of wire about a foot long. Matt should get one of those (obviously easy enough to make), then he’d have a bit and a nanosecond.
The whole meteorite story was really cute.
That was a brilliantly wholesome episode.
What I like about the American cover of "Humble Pi" is that the tricycle's four faceted wheels are a such big improvement over the three faceted ones.
How have I never noticed : the wings are on backwards , that's why it seemed off , of course!
it didn't even seem off to me
I of course got both the Kindle and Audible editions of Humble Pi as soon as I could, but the Kindle is the American version, since I'm in the US. So, I followed the link in the description above to the UK print version, and have now ordered it. This makes me quite happy.
I encourage anyone who likes audio books to get this one, as it's read by the author, almost always a big plus...so to speak. It's great for a commute.
I have long since received my signed copy of the British version, in case anyone was wondering. I'm very, very happy about it.
I remember Brady talking about how his credit in Matt's book was spelled wrong and how funny it was 😅
Yes. “Funny”.
@@standupmaths Humble Pi is a legitimately great book. I couldn't put it down once I started it!
@@prdoyle Ah, the old superglue cover trick.
@@standupmaths why aren't you verified?
Wow, having read Humble Pi on kindle, I completely missed out on the page number thing. Sometimes the old ways are better!
The electronic versions have to advantages, weight and not using trees. Other than that a printed book wins hand down.
Everyone has already noted the many great moments in this episode. Allow me to add two more:
1. Hi, Lucie! Good to see you and Matt are still rockin' it!
2. I love seeing other sides of folks who have their own channels, beyond what their channel reveals. Of course, Brady just starts another channel when that urge strikes.
I laughed when you told us about the reason for the cover change. But then I thought, the assumption that a US audience wouldn't understand the joke was made by the publisher based on a prejudice. And this change and even the story propagate the "American's won't get it" prejudice....
Separately, this was great, you guys should do a podcast together!
yet, there are people in this very comment section, presumably Americans, and presumably relatively intelligent (at least interested and familiar with Matt) that confess to not having realised...
I'm now honestly more weary of any comment here that tries to explain any of the math or history in the videos...
I have "1984" book which has everything inside except for the cover flipped. So, when you are reading it everyone around thinks that you are doing it upside down. I'm pretty sure this is a publishing error but I think it fits the book perfectly.
Growing up we had a Hardy Boy book that was printed with page 1 in the back. So it was read back to front. But the left page was read before the right page like normal. Very hard to get the page flips correct.
I had an Agatha Christie novel with the same error!
@@Phlarx Another mystery to solve:)
Ah the US of A, what a marvelous land
Huh, humble pi will come out in German soon.
Of course, I already have the English edition, but I'm surprised it's getting translated. Congrats on being successful Matt!
Lucy is delightful and fun. Lucky guy.
I'm not sure you can "not have a favorite film" and also own a toe from a T-Rex skeleton AND a storyboard card from Jurassic Park.
I'm pretty sure we all know what your favorite film is at that point.
(Edit: Oh right, and a semi-pristine VHS copy. That's not quite as impressive, I suppose.)
Meteorite Rings: Spouse when we were choosing rings & after we had watched Blood Diamond said to me "I don't want something that has been pulled from the earth at the cost of peoples lives" I suggested "What about something that fell from the sky?". So our rings are made from fragments of that same meteorite, mine it is set in yellow gold (recycled from old PCB connectors), spouses in white gold (from Canadian mines)
how is it that I've watched Brady for years and only found this channel tonight?
The algorithm is fucking up.
• 13:09 - In the book, Matt keeps saying "roll-over errors", but computer people call them "integer overflow/underflow errors".
• 13:31 - No comment needed; the implication is painfully obvious.
Maybe, but as a computer person I understand exactly what he means, and to the best of my knowledge it won't be confused with any other computer term. Overflow makes some sense, but I never really liked underflow apart from its symmetry.
"You can't have the wings on backwards on a passenger plane."
HFB 320 HansaJet:
Typically US, worried about being sued. :) Lovely episode!
Interesting and worthwhile video.
I'm American, I have been watching Matt on Numberphile for years, and I no joke only noticed that the wings were backwards when Brady said it. I hate that the publishers were right. Us dum dum Americans wouldn't notice that the wings were backwards on a plane, so they dumbed it down to square wheels on a bike.
From an aesthetic viewpoint I do enjoy the square-wheeled bike/trike (whichever) image more than the humorously flawed plane! I did buy the wheel one when it came out, even though I already had the plane one, since you said there were more stories!
If I were on Objectivity, I would show Brady my Dinosaurs Attack card signed by Brady.
Do you know if there's likely to be any more HI?
@@carlosee88 Who knows? Today is a year anniversary of the last episode, btw.
Woo! Always a fan of Matt Parker
(05:44) We finally get to meet Mrs. Parkers square! :P
I really do not understand why US publishers insist on translating UK English to US English. I was born in the UK, educated in NZ, live in the US and worked with engineers spread in a number of different countries. Over the years I have assimilated colloquial English words from most countries that speak the English language - in most cases I know about half a dozen different (English - sort of) words that mean the same thing. Living in the US I realize that most Americans only know things by one name and if you use a colloquial English word common in some other country in conversation you just get a blank stare from the person you are talking to. My guiding principle that I have to apply is to ask myself "What would Bart say?" - The Simpsons is my reference for US English. I find it interesting that if a talk to someone in for instance in India and use some colloquial English word common to say Canada or South Africa, then in most cases I find that generally English speaking people outside the US are somewhat familiar with all the different names things have in every English speaking country. US publishers think that they are helping by insisting that all books are translated into US English, however this practice does seem to have the effect of keeping the general US public from ever being exposed to the vast array of alternative English words that the rest of the English speaking world tends to use without too much difficulty. I think that it would be a lot more useful if US publishers simply retained the original English text and simply added foot notes to explain the details they thought might not be understood by the US public.
Believing the US wouldn’t understand the plane wings are wrong is very depressing
Okay, this is a reasonable substitution. And Matt Parker's brilliant.
And that's part of why I bought my copy from the UK and had it shipped across.
@7:30 What other metal would you use? I'd say tantalum: it has the rarest primordial isotope in it: 180mTa which is also the only naturally occurring nuclear isomer (excluding radiogenic and cosmogenic short-lived nuclides), and it is actually rather well suited for making rings.
That Jurassic Park prop is crazy cool!!
Agreed!
I live in the states and I LOVE the subtle humor about why things are different on the subject of the book cover and the disclaimer about page numbering. I want a copy of the non-American print. :) btw. This is the first of your videoes I've seen and I have subscibed and clicked notifications. Going to watch more of your videos now. Great vid!
Thanks for tuning in Sean!
Loved it! Great video!
The best part of this video is when Matt calls for his wife and Prof. Lucie Green pops up!
I did a double take, then triple take, and then laughed myself hoarse!
Loved this episode
3 of my favourite people in 1 video
I think the US publisher was worried about nothing. Anyone who would be at all interested in reading the book probably knows enough to understand the cover and the page numbering.
Ah, yes. The old "code a loop that terminates when the index is less than zero but define the index as an unsigned integer" trick.
I was hoping the same thing, but take a browse through the comments. Even here I've already found like ten people admitting to not spotting the wrong wings.
Brady wearing his white gloves for a call episode is the of the reasons i like Brady
I love the OEIS.
I was visiting Norway (from the US) and was using the loo in a rural restaurant. On the wall was a small water heater with "Caution: Hot" warnings printed on it in a variety of languages. The last line was in English and said "Caution: Hot. Do not touch." Yes, my fellow Americans need stuff explained to them. Sigh.
The U.S. version looks less cool, and we need to be reassured our book is printed correctly... Sigh...
No, the British publisher assumed that Americans would need to be reassured.
I think that page number thing is only moderately subtle to begin with, it feels kind of condescending to add that disclaimer. Surely if you notice that the page numbers are going the wrong way, you don't need a disclaimer to figure out that it's intentional in a book about maths gone wrong? I'm now curious if the Americans "need" that disclaimer, or if there's an unstated subconscious snobbery that makes non-Americans assume the Americans need it.
@@neruneri American here, I don't know what numbers even are.
Ohh man, the differences between the books is too funny. It is a great read honestly.
i like how matt subtly implied memory is still done with tubes, they are just VERY small now.
Haha I'm in the States and its true. People here can be dumb as a sack of hammers. So may times I have to explain how humidity works to grown adults (for a humidifier). Shame this place has become such a laughingstock. Some of us have brains though, not all is lost!!! That bit was fascinating!
Looks like the tape is not rewound. Now I want to know at which scene it was stopped.
I'm impressed you were able to notice that haha
@@sonaxaton too young to have owned VHS tapes? It's probably the first thing that caught my eye XD
Yea sorry, in America we have to have labels on everything to protect stupid people from their stupid. See Florida man for reference.
somehow people like that are still smart enough to find out how to sue. Or would that be considered some sort of instinct? :p
What a great collection and very cool rings/
I wish Brady and Matt would do a regular thing together, a podcast for example. They are just so likable guys and I think they act great togeher
Would the type of person that doesn't notice there's something wrong with that plane be the type of person to buy a book an maths anyway? Or even the type of person to buy a book full stop?
I'm so jealous of that bit!!😍😍
Once you see it you can't unsee it
That's even better then a real T-Rex claw. Awesome!
Kids can ride a bike with square wheels at the Museum of Mathematics in New York City.
Used to be a sinusoidal track for a bike with square wheels at COSI in Columbus. The bike was a fixy before fixies were really a thing.
Yes indeed! My first book contains a photo of me on that very bike.
@@JBLewis fixies where a real thing way before there where shifters.
When you introduce Matt Parker you have to say he's inventor of world-famous parker squares
That was a really good one!!
Matt said he has no favorite film -- but if he did it would be Jurassic Park, and he paid 2x for it, and he owns >1 production artifact. That sounds like a favorite film, right? I mean great film, great choice, why deny it?
Oh those God damn page numbers, I made the index for this book and you would not believe how difficult it is to program a computer to emulate common programming mistakes without going completely spare. I hope you all find it extremely funny.
This was fantastic!
Thanks for tuning in :) - James
Lucie is delightful, she needs to be on more!
Hunt and peck typing answered the call :)
Why did Matt insist on buying just one when the guy was selling two for a dollar?
my guess, he was traveling in the states and didn't want the luggage.
It would make much less sense to take something he didn't want.
Thanks everyone. :-)
I don't think anyone buying your book in the states would have taken the book back because the page numbers were reversed, but the publishers have to deal with people that buy all manner of books so they could have had experiences that warranted their fear. It's a big country filled with a lot of people many of whom don't have a sense of humor.
I like Matt's wife. "What other metal would you make wedding rings out of?" Wonderful!
(Matt has a treasure in her. How many other women have that sense of value?)
Maby if Matt gets knighted he could get a meteorite sword to add to his collection
Terry Pratchett already did that.
ffs.. Now I want a meteorite sword. Where am I supposed to get THAT from. thanks a lot...
:P
I read your book recently, it was very enjoyable!
Penguin do realise that the target audience for matts maths book aren't going to need disclaimers for numbers?
Hi, I'm an American. I'm so ashamed I never noticed the wings are on the plane wrong. I always thought it was a funny looking plane, I never really thought about why.
2:10 Wait what, Matt is Australian?!
I have watched so many video of Matt on Brady’s channel and his own and I had no idea until now. :O
Finally after watching Matt mention his ring at the RI I finally know the story that he avoided saying
13:30 is the most US'ian thing ever...
I ordered an autographed copy from Matt so I got the UK edition
Do the Harrison Sea Clocks next.