yes, excuse me ... I'm looking for your 'unpopular' science section; I'd like to challenge my critical thinking skills and/or my faith in humanity. Let's roll the dice!
Can you have a website listing all mistakes and corrections? I would love to take a red pen to my book when I get it to fix the mistakes. Feels it is in the spirit of the book ;)
My pre order charge hit my credit card and my wife asked me why I bought a love triangle book. I told her it was about trigonometry and she didn’t believe me.
I knew I would buy the new book eventually, but I didn't know when. Then Matt showed the page numbers and the index. I'm convinced. I'm going out to buy it ASAP.
I work in book production, so I'm having sympathy pains for the team that's gonna get reprint corrections the day before the new pages are due at the printer and have to get the new pages approved, then wait for the new index from Matt.
You could pop over to Canada and pick up an original version. We usually get the UK version of books since UK spelling is more similar to Canadian spelling than US spelling is.
@@OntarioTrafficMan Wait, where do you buy your books? My local library and Indigo both have the US version of this and Humble Pi, I assumed that was true everywhere. I'd love to find a UK version I didn't have to get online.
I'm sorry but does every book have the font it is printed in on the copyright page because this is VITAL information to me and I would really appreciate it if all books could do this!!
Looking forward to receiving mine! Congrats Mr Parker. Love triangles. Fun Fact: A few years ago, I paid 30 something pounds for a pre-order for "The Triangle Book" by Jon Conway. The book was supposedly going to be triangle shaped! AND written by Jon Conway. When Jon sadly passed away, it left a massive triangle shaped hole in my heart and a 30 something GBP hole in my wallet, and a triangle shaped book hole on my shelf. xx
@@simonvetter2420 Correct. Can’t remember who the vender was. It’s probably hidden in my 75,000 odd unread emails. Plus, still hoping that they still publish it one day 😊
Holding images should always be something that 100% stands out as incorrect, like a picture of Mr Bobbly or something. Having watched your videos however, Matt, I'm not sure I can think of something that would obviously stand out!
I preordered from your website so my copy is signed. Was originally confused by the page numbers until I noticed the pattern on the chapter list. Also I find it awesome the second dustcover has more on the designer of the dust cover than you, it feels inkeeping with your discarding of the normal rules for how books should work.
Hah. I'm glad I already ordered the book, though. Call me old-fashioned, but I kinda like my page numbers ⊂ ℕ. And having gone through the painful process of creating a proper hand-crafted index for other people's books multiple times, I like to know that the author or publishers have suffered the same way. And don't get me started on having the origin for the polar coordinates not be in the center of the page! What's wrong with the other three quadrants? Also, something something radians. Anyway, can't wait to be annoyed at you and your damn book. Hope it sells well! :)
I'm surprised you had any repeats on the page number. The sine of any integer number of radians should be unique so only rounding would make it the same.
Can't wait for my copy to arrive! just last week I went all the way from the US to London just to finally get a UK airplane cover copy of Humble Pi (and definitely not because I was on family vacation...)
The sine function is unique on the integers, so the page numbers should be fine. You haven't arbitrarily multiplied all the page numbers by π/180 before taking the sine have you? What mathematician would do that?!
I wonder why Matt has to make a different versions of his newer books for the Americans every time now. Like, what's the pressure? Is it because of the imperial units and zed zee problem etc?
Excerpt from my diary today: 3:07 - Doorbell rang, postman delivered Matt's new book. 3:08 - Book was surgically extracted from the cardboard box that kept it protected during its journey to Melbourne, Australia. 3:14 - Finished reading the Introduction chapter.
Not to doubt the mathematical methods of Matt Parker, but I think he should have made the page numbers the value of the sin of the page in radians. That way each one could be unique. Great book either way, though!
It would be very cool if we could get a list of the errors, just so we can check where things would change, as well as appreciate the book a little better :)
@@sebastianjostThat's not really relevant here, because we're only looking at sin(x) where x is in Z+, you're introducing both a π and negative values into the equation.
The index providing co-ordinates to the word is genius. I wish more textbooks did that. You have slightly tarnished that glory by using repeating page numbers.
I'm so excited to get my hands on a copy, Matt! Things to make and do is one of my favourite books! I have to wait a bit longer as it's release date in Japan is next month.
Next time the index needs to have an entry for each item that identifies what page the index listing is on. Some entries should not exist anywhere in the book except the index and have the single reference back to itself.
It's a pretty reliable pattern in book publication - the first printing has lots of mistakes, almost all of which are caught by readers and fixed for the second or third printing (depending on how quickly the first printing sells out) and then once the number of mistakes reaches a more-or-less steady value it stays there, with occasional fluctuations (someone selecting the wrong file to base the new edition off) until and unless a new edition (with more substantial revisions) happens, at which point you expect a spike in mistakes, though probably never as many as in the first edition's first printing.
@@rmsgrey Many were caught during the audio recording this time. Matt mentioned that unlike the previous book, this recording happened after print publication. I'm not sure if the next print is happening before readers have a chance to review or not.
@@Tahgtahv Yeah, any time the book changes medium, or is looked out by a new pair of eyes, some mistakes will get caught. Nothing beats the hundreds of pairs of eyes that come when the book goes into the wild (Google tells me that a traditionally published book will, on average, sell 250-300 copies in its first year).
Please do a different joke for the pave numbers for the American version. I rely on remembering oge numbers, and this would make it harder for me to read.
The first edition of a Matt Parker book is what is know as a Parker book.
Beautiful Parker comment
His next book means that I can complete my Parker book square.
In the comments to say the same thing! +1
All first editions are Parker books, really 😂
this is a parker comment lol
I think it is so lovely that Penguin and Waterstones indulge your nonsense.
I'm so glad they put your books in the "popular" science section. The alternative would have been heartbreaking.
they should have created a section for popular math
yes, excuse me ... I'm looking for your 'unpopular' science section; I'd like to challenge my critical thinking skills and/or my faith in humanity. Let's roll the dice!
@@zakuraayame5091 you rolled a 1, so you failed. Go to the popular section instead
Can you have a website listing all mistakes and corrections? I would love to take a red pen to my book when I get it to fix the mistakes. Feels it is in the spirit of the book ;)
Yesss, that sounds like such fun
My pre order charge hit my credit card and my wife asked me why I bought a love triangle book. I told her it was about trigonometry and she didn’t believe me.
Matt don't ever stop fucking with the formatting in ridiculous maths ways it's hilarious
Nah taking the sin of the page value then having the index in polar coordinates is diabolical
There's no redemption for the sin?
What did the page do for it to have sinned?
I knew I would buy the new book eventually, but I didn't know when. Then Matt showed the page numbers and the index. I'm convinced. I'm going out to buy it ASAP.
I neeeed it
Opisek! My old Airada Realm friend! Who could have guessed that you would also be in the market for nerdy math books
@@treeboy8570 indeed!
For the future editions, will you need to re-run your index calculations for coordinates in order to correct for shifted content from edits?
I work in book production, so I'm having sympathy pains for the team that's gonna get reprint corrections the day before the new pages are due at the printer and have to get the new pages approved, then wait for the new index from Matt.
We will make sure if there are any mistakes we spot, we will refer to it by page number only ... and not via the Index ...
We will send Matt the _spherical coordinates_ where the error is located. Origin is at the bottom left corner of the back of the book.
@@marcelomagallon Need error bars based on whether the book is brand new, has been thumbed through, or thoroughly read.
America doesn't need a different print of the book. We can figure out what you mean when you write "colour", I promise.
or we can always order it from his site; hopefully the extra cost gives him extra support and not just going to an extra middle man
I think there's things you can't write in American books that you can in the free world. My physics text book for uni was not available in the USA
@@zakuraayame5091
Mr Parker has at least ten thousand copies of his book himself, available to order direct from him, signed and numbered.
🍌🙂
You could pop over to Canada and pick up an original version. We usually get the UK version of books since UK spelling is more similar to Canadian spelling than US spelling is.
@@OntarioTrafficMan Wait, where do you buy your books? My local library and Indigo both have the US version of this and Humble Pi, I assumed that was true everywhere. I'd love to find a UK version I didn't have to get online.
But...
Was the code for the index "Terrible Python Code"???
6:00 That is so stupid, I love it. I'm sure that cost a lot of publisher goodwill indeed
You could have also included the cosine value of the page numbers, that way you would have unique pages (until page 359)
Or just used radians instead like a sensible person.
That ending might be the opposite of eating your Humble Pi.
I'm sorry but does every book have the font it is printed in on the copyright page because this is VITAL information to me and I would really appreciate it if all books could do this!!
Love Triangle: Brought to you by Some Terrible Python Code
Book arrived this morning and loving it. That’s me sorted for the weekend!
Looking forward to receiving mine! Congrats Mr Parker. Love triangles.
Fun Fact: A few years ago, I paid 30 something pounds for a pre-order for "The Triangle Book" by Jon Conway. The book was supposedly going to be triangle shaped! AND written by Jon Conway. When Jon sadly passed away, it left a massive triangle shaped hole in my heart and a 30 something GBP hole in my wallet, and a triangle shaped book hole on my shelf. xx
So you paid for it and then did not get a refund?
@@simonvetter2420 Correct. Can’t remember who the vender was. It’s probably hidden in my 75,000 odd unread emails. Plus, still hoping that they still publish it one day 😊
I actually cannot wait to get this book I'm so excited. It's coming just in time for the end of exams too, thank you Mr love triangle!
Holding images should always be something that 100% stands out as incorrect, like a picture of Mr Bobbly or something. Having watched your videos however, Matt, I'm not sure I can think of something that would obviously stand out!
I preordered from your website so my copy is signed.
Was originally confused by the page numbers until I noticed the pattern on the chapter list.
Also I find it awesome the second dustcover has more on the designer of the dust cover than you, it feels inkeeping with your discarding of the normal rules for how books should work.
So, you couldn't pull off a zeroth edition. :-(
Put one in the trashy romance section; teach someone not to judge a book by its title.
I feel like writing the Love Triangle Companion, which is basically just a big arcsin table, with instructions on how to apply it to arccos too.
"Keep your ion the prize"... And it escaped comment. How did you contain yourself? :)
Hah. I'm glad I already ordered the book, though. Call me old-fashioned, but I kinda like my page numbers ⊂ ℕ. And having gone through the painful process of creating a proper hand-crafted index for other people's books multiple times, I like to know that the author or publishers have suffered the same way. And don't get me started on having the origin for the polar coordinates not be in the center of the page! What's wrong with the other three quadrants? Also, something something radians. Anyway, can't wait to be annoyed at you and your damn book. Hope it sells well! :)
Can you imagine trying to cite one of these books?!?
Proud owner of the 177th signed copy of the Simplex Edition. Loving it, so far.
I'm surprised you had any repeats on the page number. The sine of any integer number of radians should be unique so only rounding would make it the same.
lol, well his audience is high school math teachers and apple-polishing high school math students, so of course he used degrees.
@@ssl3546 did you use degrees in high school trig? I think that would make everything harder.
@@LikelyToBeEatenByAGrue We used both.
@@cmmartti I'm surprised. When I was in school, they stopped using degrees when they started algebra. They're pretty useless.
Not to be pedantic, is there a list of mistakes?
I cant stand reading hardback books so will be waiting for the small, paperback edition in the UK
God forbid anyone ever has to cite this book.
0:24 "In computing, there are two hard problems: Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." 🤣
I also always "face" books when I'm in a bookstore and find a book I've written or edited!
Curious.. I counted n+1 things about publishing a physical book. The opposite of clickbait
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Can't wait for my copy to arrive! just last week I went all the way from the US to London just to finally get a UK airplane cover copy of Humble Pi (and definitely not because I was on family vacation...)
The sine function is unique on the integers, so the page numbers should be fine. You haven't arbitrarily multiplied all the page numbers by π/180 before taking the sine have you? What mathematician would do that?!
I think he picked degrees because there is 354 pages, which is almost 360.
Gonna be confusing if he gets over 360 pages on reprints though.
I wonder why Matt has to make a different versions of his newer books for the Americans every time now. Like, what's the pressure? Is it because of the imperial units and zed zee problem etc?
10 favourite things about the book, where 10 is in base n
Excerpt from my diary today:
3:07 - Doorbell rang, postman delivered Matt's new book.
3:08 - Book was surgically extracted from the cardboard box that kept it protected during its journey to Melbourne, Australia.
3:14 - Finished reading the Introduction chapter.
Holy smokes! I'm very excited!
I gotta get me a copy!
As much as I'd love a first print, I can't justify shipping costing more than the book.. Shame..
Will there be a list of the mistakes anywhere if we want to make corrections?
Not to doubt the mathematical methods of Matt Parker, but I think he should have made the page numbers the value of the sin of the page in radians. That way each one could be unique.
Great book either way, though!
Did you take out the first at or the second at? Could you work in an ATAT next time?
Him distributing the Humble Pi has me laughing more than I should
Next book should have page numbers as a complex jaunt around the unit circle!
Well... If you want to refer to a page but get the one with the same sin value, you could call it the Parker page to the correct one.
Just received the triangle edition of your book today, looking forward to reading it tmmrw
For your next book you should include a QR code at the end that leads to an online mistakeography
It would be very cool if we could get a list of the errors, just so we can check where things would change, as well as appreciate the book a little better :)
You removed an at-at?? This is going to be "Greedo shot first" all over again.
Only Matt Parker could market errors as a positive
You couldn't get them to call it a 0th edition instead of a First edition?
Shouldn't page numbers all be unique because the period is 2pi, and you're going up one integer at a time? (PLEASE don't tell me you used degrees :( )
sin(a) = sin(π-a)
@@sebastianjostThat's not really relevant here, because we're only looking at sin(x) where x is in Z+, you're introducing both a π and negative values into the equation.
0:50 I like how he covered somebody else's book xD
Having non unique page numbers seems a step too far.
Who cosined off on that idea?!
Hoping you do an errata video.
"it's got some content in there as well"
£17.89 on Amazon right now btw
I think authors get close to nothing if purchased from Amazon. So if you want to support Matt, buy it from him or from his publishing partners.
It amuses me that he didn't cover The Selfish Gene. Black Holes, The Genetic Age, and The Universe, yes, but not The Selfish Gene.
Guns N Roses: Θ = 66.6°
Start with book zero. 😎
I'll give you £25.56 for the first edition as the next triangle number how can you not accept 😝
❤️🔺 I went for the audible book. Also got Humble Pi as I had unused credits. Double Matt! Weekend listening ✅
The index providing co-ordinates to the word is genius. I wish more textbooks did that. You have slightly tarnished that glory by using repeating page numbers.
Love the exciting, fun mathematics that you have included in this book. Also, thanks for the heads-up on the first edition known errors.
🤣Happy launch day! Small comment about your Humble Pi placement: Wouldn't it be better if they were on different selves? 😇
5:37 That WAS very funny! Made this old programmer chuckle a little at least.
Having published a physical book, there is _nothing_ good about the process. haha.
If you'd use the page numbers as a number of radians then you would have had unique page numbers
I'm so excited to get my hands on a copy, Matt! Things to make and do is one of my favourite books! I have to wait a bit longer as it's release date in Japan is next month.
Next time the index needs to have an entry for each item that identifies what page the index listing is on. Some entries should not exist anywhere in the book except the index and have the single reference back to itself.
The label ‘keep your ion the price’ is great in the store.
Eagerly awaiting my preorder.
I hope the shipping to Chile doesn't take too long! Can't wait
"BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK!" -Jay Sherman
I've ordered two copies. I can't wait!
Version of the book with the maximum number of mistakes? No guarantee thst more wont get added than removed in a subsequent edition!
Parker maximum?
It's a pretty reliable pattern in book publication - the first printing has lots of mistakes, almost all of which are caught by readers and fixed for the second or third printing (depending on how quickly the first printing sells out) and then once the number of mistakes reaches a more-or-less steady value it stays there, with occasional fluctuations (someone selecting the wrong file to base the new edition off) until and unless a new edition (with more substantial revisions) happens, at which point you expect a spike in mistakes, though probably never as many as in the first edition's first printing.
@@rmsgrey Many were caught during the audio recording this time. Matt mentioned that unlike the previous book, this recording happened after print publication. I'm not sure if the next print is happening before readers have a chance to review or not.
@@Tahgtahv Yeah, any time the book changes medium, or is looked out by a new pair of eyes, some mistakes will get caught.
Nothing beats the hundreds of pairs of eyes that come when the book goes into the wild (Google tells me that a traditionally published book will, on average, sell 250-300 copies in its first year).
Please do a different joke for the pave numbers for the American version. I rely on remembering oge numbers, and this would make it harder for me to read.
'rely on remembering page numbers'? can you not use a bookmark?
Thankfully if you want the page number you can just use a calculator to get it from an inverse sin function
I NEED FREE BOOK
First?