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Breaking Maths News! (yes, it's what you think) (Patreon)

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2026-09-20 22:38:43

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2026-09-21 11:50:09

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Hey everyone - thanks for the comments I've corrected a few things and the new version is now linked to in this post.https://youtu.be/c79PsbkHw4A

After everyone (and in my camera person's case: their mother) has been asking about a video on Navier Stokes, here it is! Thanks to everyone who emailed in to say they'd like to see the video.

I was genuinely in Disney World when I needed to film this video. I was there for some work related reasons: thanks to everyone who said hi at DDAC (yes, the Disney Data & Analytics Conference is a real thing) and there is a video in the works for STEAM week in November that I filmed with an Imagineer.

But this was all shot when I was genuinely just cruising around the Disney World parks with my mates. Thankfully they are both skilled at holding a camera. And they are both easily absorbed into a filmmaking challenge which they enjoy as much as any ride.

We've just finished the edit and it's late Sunday night. So I'll release this to patreons now and if you don't see any significantly mistakes: I'll add in the thumbnails and description etc and release first thing Monday.

And yes, Grant did beat me to the release.

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Breaking Maths News: what's going on with millennium maths problems?

The initial Tristan Buckmaster post on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@tristanbuckmaster/117233413705701198 OpenAI announcement about Navier Stokes: https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/ The Clay Mathematics Institute page for Navier Stokes: https://www.claymath.org/millennium/navier-stokes-equation/ Grant's comments are on the end of his latest 3blue1brown video: https://youtu.be/Nbwv5wHQoj0?t=2757 And you can read him on Terry's blog here: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-the-rest-of-it/ Fluid mechanics chat on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FluidMechanics/s/m4zHPcir0D For my terrible visualisation I pulled the equations from the OpenAI paper section 3.1 and used Claude to build a visualisation. The angular moment values are unitless and basically meaningless as OpenAI didn't give any and I've just pulled the max value swirling around in the visualisation simulation. But I thought it added a valuable point that we care about the max speed in the middle, and that changes with tau. For more unnecessary detail, tickets for upcoming London shows are available here: https://festivalofthespokennerd.com/tickets/ Also I'm touring the UK again for the final time with Getting Triggy With It this Autumn. It's a short tour, so get your tickets here: https://standupmaths.com/shows/ Huge thanks to my Patreon supporters. They help me find my flow state. https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths CORRECTIONS None yet, let me know if you spot anything! Filming by Truman Hanks with some assistance from Intern Alan Editing by Gus Melton Written by Sophie Maclean and Matt Parker Performed by Matt Parker Content wrangling by Rhys Jones Produced by Nicole Jacobus Music by Howard Carter Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician Website: http://standupmaths.com/