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Matt Parker

Personal blog · standupmaths.com/articlesmathculture

Matt Parker's personal blog at standupmaths.com covers math and culture. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Matt Parker – Standup Mathematician”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2010–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as background on its author, Matt Parker, a former maths teacher who performs stand-up maths comedy shows. The comment says nothing about the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Matt Parker is a stand-up comedian, #1-best-selling maths author and person who makes videos for the internet.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Matt Parker – Standup Mathematician
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. Matt Parker is an ex-math teacher that does stand-up math comedy shows[1], FWIW. [1]: https://standupmaths.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Square roots and maxima”
  2. Submitted Matt Parker – Standup Mathematician as a story · 178 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Standup Mathematician as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Mathematician deciphers hidden 'Hello Code' as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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