Matt Parker is a stand-up comedian, #1-best-selling maths author and person who makes videos for the internet.<\/p>\n
His latest book Love Triangle was a New York Times best-seller and was his second book to be a #1-best-seller in the UK.<\/p>\n
Matt has previously held world records for both the Rubik\u2019s Cube and Space Invaders. In the pursuit of maths, Matt has: flipped a coin 10,000 times, travelled to Antarctica, memorized pi to hundreds of digits, and been stung by a bullet ant in the Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n
In 2025 Asteroid 314159 was named “Mattparker” dramatically increasing the probability of the sentence “today MattParker destroyed all life on Earth”.<\/p>\n
Get in touch with Matt:\u00a0matt@standupmaths.com<\/a> Matt Parker is a stand-up comedian, #1-best-selling maths author and person who makes videos for the internet. His latest book Love Triangle was a New York Times best-seller and was his second book to be a #1-best-seller in the UK. Matt has previously held world records for both the Rubik\u2019s Cube and Space Invaders. In Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standupmaths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standupmaths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standupmaths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standupmaths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standupmaths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/standupmaths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/standupmaths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standupmaths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standupmaths.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWatch Matt on YouTube:\u00a0youtube.com\/standupmaths<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"