Every Interesting Bit of Maths Ever

摘要

Matt Parker described his journey from teacher to professional mathematics communicator, using interesting examples of mathematics throughout. He started by giving the audience some up-to-date news! In the few days before the event, an aperiodic monotile had been published; this is an elegantly simple shape that tiles the plane but never periodically. Matt described how this was the culmination of 60 years of research, and rather excitingly the team have actually found an uncountably infinite family of tiles with this property.