Matt Parker — Person Summaries
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The Banach–Tarski Paradox
A “chocolate-from-nothing” trick is a useful warm-up for a far stranger claim in mathematics: the Banach–Tarski paradox says a solid object can be...
The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer
A counterintuitive prison riddle turns out to have a surprisingly high escape chance—about 31%—once prisoners stop treating their searches as...
Why colliding blocks compute pi
A pair of idealized, frictionless blocks can be tuned—by choosing a mass ratio—to produce a collision count whose digits match those of π, even...
Why this puzzle is impossible
The puzzle of connecting three utilities (gas, power, water) to three houses with nine non-crossing lines turns out to be impossible on a flat...
The impossible chessboard puzzle
A prisoner-style chessboard puzzle turns into a sharp impossibility result: if the board size (the number of squares) is not a power of two, no...
Five puzzles for thinking outside the box
A chain of geometry puzzles turns on one recurring insight: stepping into a higher dimension can make stubborn 2D questions tractable—and even when...
Hamming codes part 2: The one-line implementation
Hamming codes can locate a single flipped bit with an error position that drops out directly from XOR—so the receiver’s core job can shrink to one...