Simon Singh
@SLSingh
Followers
77,592
Following
26
Media
2,406
Statuses
41,264
Author of The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book, Big Bang & Trick or Treatment?
London
Joined February 2009
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
México
• 1326658 Tweets
Morena
• 767833 Tweets
casillas
• 471596 Tweets
Xóchitl
• 416357 Tweets
CDMX
• 342428 Tweets
The Loyal Pin is Coming
• 322584 Tweets
PREP
• 258252 Tweets
緊急地震速報
• 209831 Tweets
AMLO
• 181851 Tweets
El INE
• 139735 Tweets
PRIAN
• 112556 Tweets
Maynez
• 92221 Tweets
Televisa
• 81118 Tweets
#BILLKINBAGUCCI
• 80010 Tweets
Oilers
• 59585 Tweets
$GME
• 53379 Tweets
Natalie
• 30049 Tweets
Edmonton
• 27238 Tweets
Otros 6
• 24751 Tweets
Bucaramanga
• 22716 Tweets
Kaveh
• 22062 Tweets
McDavid
• 16742 Tweets
Tommie
• 13113 Tweets
SmangatPRABOWO UntukNKRI
• 13056 Tweets
KitaKOMPAK KitaKOKOH
• 12258 Tweets
kcon
• 11763 Tweets
グッズ・ボイス販売
• 11394 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
Pls RT & increase the number & diversity of excellent mathematicians.
A video of our FREE online maths circles. 13 circles (webinars) EVERY week, ages 10-16. Anyone, anywhere welcome to the world's biggest maths circles.
And free weekly puzzle sheets.
16
26
70
"In the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles. But something else happened. Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from ... pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half"
27
1K
2K
Name added.
That Times letter has now become a petition. If you'd like to sign it in support of women who dare to speak up against the bullies who would silence and cancel them, please follow this link and add your name:
@jk_rowling
#LetWomenSpeak
55
217
537
122
155
2K
Einstein's view on homeopathy: "If one were to lock up 10 very clever people in a room and told them they were only allowed out once they had come up with the most stupid idea conceivable, they would soon come up with homeopathy.”
21
452
975
If only we could configure pipes that somehow delivered water to every home.
This is brilliant from Ocado. And might be a good future policy anyway.
50
335
3K
12
138
736
BBC News - Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded a Breakthrough Prize for the discovery of pulsars - she will donate her £2.3m winnings to encourage diversity in science
13
262
621
One of my favorite new things this year has been sitting down each evening with my two sons (7 and 12) and looking at the latest tweets from
@Rainmaker1973
&
@gunsnrosesgirl3
10
23
544
Just heard the news - huge congratulations to
@EmmaRaducanu
- well done on getting an A* in A Level maths this summer.
6
69
521
Windows operating system?
Most younger people won't even have a clue what this is. Retweet if you know.
798
7K
6K
16
145
449
I agree that it is important to not participate in false balance discussions. If more took this stance, then the media would have to stop running them.
BBC Radio wanted to have me on today to debate a climate-denier in the context of the drought/heatwave.
I said NO.
I told them it was a disgrace that they still give climate-deniers airtime at a time like this.
I won’t be part of such charades any longer.
Please RT if you agree.
1K
35K
51K
11
123
375
While chatting to my older son yesterday, realised that forks are all about vertices, knives all about edges and spoons all about surfaces.
19
129
373
Very proud and excited to have been awarded the Christopher Zeeman medal this year, following in the footsteps of some great folk, i.e.,
2020 Matt Parker
2018 Hannah Fry
2016 Rob Eastaway
2014 Marcus du Sautoy,
John Barrow & Ian Stewart
Simon Singh is awarded 2022 Christopher Zeeman Medal. Few people have inspired so many of the public to have a strong interest in mathematics in so many ways as Simon Singh. Visit our webpage for the full citation.
@SLSingh
@LondMathSoc
2
24
98
49
22
369
UK refugee wins Fields Medal 'biggest maths prize'
Caucher Birkar was born in Iran but now works at the University of Cambridge
10
158
358
BIG NEWS!
I'm offering FREE weekly online maths masterclasses to increase the diversity & number of excellent mathematicians. Parents, nominate kids now. Teachers nominate in Sept. Let's turn good mathematicians into great ones. Nominate here
@TalentEd_edu
26
318
353
It's always good to learn by example
14
46
340
Wow! Have you seen Nerdle, the maths equivalent of Wordle?
(HT
@successfulsw
)
It's not as impossible as it looks at first sight.
49
66
295
After realising he was wrong, NN Taleb has blocked me on twitter + on email - odd behaviour for a guy who wrote a book called ANTI-FRAGILE
22
59
276
BIG NEWS - Teachers & parents.
I’m hosting FREE online maths circles. Four circles EVERY week
(ages 9-11, 11-13, 13-16, 16-18).
Fully interactive. Everyone welcome, anywhere in the world. More info at
Pls RT
Let's build the world's biggest maths circles.
7
239
288
18
457
278
BIG NEWS! Teachers & parents.
I’m hosting FREE online maths circles. Four circles EVERY week
(ages 9-11, 11-13, 13-16, 16-18).
Fully interactive. Everyone welcome, anywhere in the world. More info at
Pls RT
Let's build the world's biggest maths circles.
5
165
277
Strongly recommend The Secret Genius of Modern Life on BBC2, brilliantly presented by
@FryRsquared
- every episode is a sheer joy
7
21
268
BIG NEWS!
I'm offering FREE weekly online maths masterclasses to increase the diversity & number of excellent mathematicians. Parents & Teachers, nominate kids now. Let's turn good mathematicians into great ones. Nominate here:
@TalentEd_edu
24
218
270
I found a weird mole on my hand. Should I get it checked out?
http://t.co/hsPkdfEwJ3
http://t.co/7BGSAPYXfI
40
317
267
The NHS just told Jeremy Hunt to ban homeopathy because there's 'no evidence it works'
10
129
259
BIG NEWS!
I'm offering FREE weekly online maths masterclasses to increase the diversity & number of excellent mathematicians. Parents & teachers pls nominate BEFORE Oct 9. Let's turn good mathematicians into great ones. Nominate here
@TalentEd_edu
17
133
259
I don't know how others feel, but sad to hear the term "Western Science" repeated again and again at
@sciencemuseum
guru event. Science is science.
18
57
258
Thanks for all the positive replies and thanks even for the negative ones. No time to reply to either type of reply -sorry - but thanks for expressing your views.
9
2
247
Older son and I repeated Feynman's famous "is it bladder pressure or gravity that drives weeing?" ... by holding younger son upside down while he did a wee in the garden. Feynman was right, it's the bladder.
22
61
253
In other news, Trump decides USA is no longer hosting 2017 eclipse. US farmers should not have to lose 2 mins of summer sun.
8
126
244
While in Cork yesterday, it was a pleasure to Professor Des MacHale, who has been popularising maths for decades. He once said, that a statistician is someone who thinks that "the average human has one breast and one testicle."
10
45
234
18
388
224
I retweeted something yesterday about this - but it deserves a second RT. Disgraceful boast.
Theresa May boasts Graphene was created in UK.
Yes. By two immigrants. Who plan to leave over Brexit. FFS
118
6K
9K
8
185
227
Very proud to have been part of the advisory panel.
Alan Turing, World War Two codebreaker and mathematician, will be the face of new Bank of England £50 note
1K
15K
64K
8
14
224
My Fermat's Last Theorem documentary available to watch here (outside UK)
@SLSingh
I loved the trajectory of your career.
Is there a way I can access your documentary on Fermat's Last Theorem and Andrew Wiles? I am in India. YouTube?
0
0
1
12
66
225
Okay - announcing my Parallel Project for young mathematicians (age 10-13). Free stuff to stretch kids every week.
15
161
221
Bletchley codebreaker and mathematician created a 51-letter palindrome:
"Doc note, I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod."
Wiki says he composed it in bed, eyes closed, no pencil/paper and it took him five hours.
5
43
216
BBC News - NHS homeopathy ending in London
16
54
198
A genuine hero. A god. I am very happy that my older son got to meet him, and I will make sure my younger grows up to know all about adventures of the Amazing Randi.
We are very sad to say that James Randi passed away yesterday, due to age-related causes.
He had an amazing life. We will miss him.
Please respect Deyvi Peña’s privacy during this difficult time.
206
1K
4K
6
19
189
Will that be the crowd control group?
4
80
182
Homeopathy is quackery plain and simple, whatever the royal family says | Catherine Bennett
13
99
173
WRT Fox News reporter John Roberts is calling out Trump’s vicious attacks on CNN and NBC News at the UK press conference via
@nowthisnews
9
92
171
Breakfast this morning at
@AIMS_Next
in Cape Town. I ask the chap next to me where he's from. He says Ghana. I say I am from the UK. He says, "Yes, I know, I used to watch you on
@numberphile
as a kid."
Mr
@BradyHaran
deserves many knighthoods for services to maths.
5
8
168
The Is this prime? game
Your challenge for today... can you beat my score of 23? Or rather, how many attempts before you beat my score of 23.
65
68
165
I found this maths puzzle in my son's school bag - does anyone know what it's called and where I can found more?
56
11
162
Booking Lawson was lazy, tabloid, anti-science journalism.
"BBC defends Lord Lawson climate change interview"
34
119
157
This year we ran weekly online Masterclasses with 500 students, to increase the number & diversity of great mathematicians. TEACHERS can now nominate students for 2021/22. Free places for disadvantaged students, big subsidies for the rest. Nominate here
12
105
160
Pls RT & help increase the number & diversity of excellent mathematicians.
Here's a taste of our free maths circles.
13 FREE online maths circles (webinars) EVERY week, ages 10-16.
Anyone, anywhere welcome. Let's build the world's biggest maths circles.
0
112
159
Asked my son if he knew what economics was all about, and he said: "No, but I know that my perfect cousin has got a degree in it + maths, physics and bionics." Proud dad.
7
24
157
There are also more plastic gnomes in the UK than real gnomes.
There are more plastic flamingos in the US than real flamingos.
15
128
423
7
38
150
This great puzzle, tweeted earlier, was created by the brilliant
@DavidJBodycombe
HT
@noneatnamesleft
http://t.co/8KSknGhEy5
46
344
149
Hello Teachers - some Simpsons/maths ppt slides that you can use in the classroom.
9
66
152
A major step forward for ending extreme quackery in the NHS. Well done to everyone who put forward evidence as part of this review.
NHS England board set to approve the decommissioning of homeopathy after public consultation.
That noise you can here is the homeopathic waaambulance starting up.
2
20
53
4
67
148
This fuckwit does not realise that his tweet will (IMHO) kill people.
Indian Govt, however, the origin of this AYUSH & homeopathy fuckwittery.
T 3491 - As a beneficiary of homoeopathy I'm encouraged to see the efforts of the AYUSH Ministry to counter Corona.
I pray that india leads the World in finding preventive & curative solutions for such epidemics.🙏🙏
2K
2K
21K
21
40
142
Pls RT & help increase the number & diversity of excellent mathematicians.
I’m hosting FREE online maths circles EVERY week.
13 circles per week.
6 ability levels
Fully interactive. Anyone, anywhere welcome. Let's build the world's biggest maths circles.
2
160
142
People here already for Bristol Science March - speeches 11am at Millennium Square. Pls RT & join us.
(Other science marches are available)
3
54
139
This weekend, I am starting a major programme of weekly FREE online maths circles. Four circles every week (Key Stages 2, 3, 4 & 5), i.e., covering ages 9 to 18. Fully interactive with chat & polls. Everyone welcome, anywhere in the world. More info at
3
52
142
Pls RT. Sign up your keen Year 7 mathematicians to my webinar. ALL students then get 10 free maths sessions. 200 receive 5 years of masterclasses. Let's increase the number & diversity of excellent mathematicians.
Teachers
Parents
9
116
140
Coke Zero Volume?
Just received the best gift from glassware genius Lucas Clarke. My very own Coca-Cola Klein Bottle.
15
38
617
1
12
139
Feynman’s Letter to His Departed Wife: "You, Dead, Are So Much Better Than Anyone Else Alive" via
@openculture
5
61
137
Professional Standards Authority suspends Society of Homeopaths !!!
We've been working on this for ages ... bringing legal challenges in 2019, raising major concerns in 2020 & now success in 2021. Big thanks to
@MrMMarsh
and
@LauraThomason_
+ invaluable work by
@UKHomeopathyReg
Professional Standards Authority suspends the Society of Homeopaths
4
24
54
10
36
131
Incredible 14,000-year-old animation.
Archaeologists think this spinning disc might be a children’s toy! It’s at least 14,000 years old. When you spin it, the two sides make it look like the deer is running. Delightful!
#archaeology
209
8K
19K
1
70
127
Al Murray's nephew needs a stem cell transplant before Christmas (and loads of other people need one too).
@DKMS_uk
accepts wrinkly stem cell donors like me (up to 55 years) so check their webpage if you're getting on a bit.
12
106
127
The reason I stopped writing books was to work on this maths in schools project & now I need someone with maths teaching experience to help grow this maths excellence project. I think the evidence of impact is huge and cost-effective. Help me spread the project across the UK.
Superstar needed to help revolutionise maths education
An exceptional opportunity for a multi-talented maths enthusiast with huge talents both inside and outside the classroom.
Further details:
3
35
34
7
78
119
Tina:"The homeopath replaced my conventional medicines with homeopathic remedies...I went to see Dr Bleisch for another check-up...My failure to treat my high blood pressure, he told me, had essentially destroyed my kidneys... Let me be clear: I’m not condemning homeopathy." WTF?
Why using homeopathy nearly killed singer Tina Turner
#ten23
cc
@ScienceBasedMed
@EdzardErnst
@FriendsOfSciMed
5
11
20
13
50
117
Here';s how to make a pringles Enigma -
@SLSingh
My 8 yo daughter was communicating with me using our Pringles tube Enigma machine only this afternoon!
0
0
12
1
33
118
Parents & Teachers - 6pm on Tuesday, I'll run a free online maths masterclass for kids in Year 6. Pls spread the word. Particularly keen to involve kids from families who have not done anything like this before.
More info & register at
@TalentEd_edu
11
119
117
Ann Mitchell worked in Hut 6. She was one of only 5 women starting maths at Oxford University in 1940.
FROM BBC
Ann once recalled: "My headmistress firmly told my parents that mathematics was not a ladylike subject. However, my parents overruled her & I pursued my chosen path."
Tributes paid to code breaker Ann Mitchell who has died aged 97
18
218
1K
0
29
116
Student
@sairamg3
Rickrolls his teacher in this ingenious quantum physics essay
http://t.co/Spbytho4ua
http://t.co/9Oe3a0jZ3v
2
192
115
If you have not caught it yet, treat yourself to EMPIRE, one of the top 25 podcasts of the year (hosted by Mrs Singh! and William Dalrymple).
Newbies but
@EmpirePodUK
is in. Delighted to see our sister pods
@RestIsPolitics
and
@TheRestHistory
in there too!
@DalrympleWill
@holland_tom
@dcsandbrook
@campbellclaret
@RoryStewartUK
and
@GaryLineker
14
24
296
5
21
114
British teacher Jamie Frost makes final 10 for $1m Global Teacher Prize.
(BTW
@DrFrostMaths
is a superhero and deserves a knighthood.
@DrFrostMaths
+
@numberphile
have made a massive difference maths education in the UK and around the world)
3
21
111
“The trouble with quotes on the internet is that’s it’s difficult to discern if they are genuine.” - Winston Churchill
http://t.co/ikZHKzcC
24
1K
109
Does that mean that they re no longer solvent?
25
56
106
No they don't
Images Reveal How Perfectly Ansel Adams' Photos Align With the Golden Ratio via
@openculture
10
111
129
9
17
106
It would have been nice if she'd kept her annotations to the margin.
I treasure this copy of
@SLSingh
's Fermat's Last Theorem, which my daughter "annotated" for me when she was three. (She's twenty-one now.)
1
2
20
10
9
106
hugely deserved - tireless and dedicated - decent and forever on the side of the angels. Well done.
I'm delighted to receive a nerdy MBE "for services to Evidence in Policy".
And very delighted that this kind of nerdy work is valued.
Onward!
185
496
3K
1
23
106
Maths teachers - get a teacher account (free) on the Parallel Project and give yr kids 30 minutes of extra maths each weekend (free), automatically marked etc.
Pls RT
0
78
104
FFS. I mean, FFS. This is despicable. And the gullible/cyncial journalists who are promoting it uncritically are also complicit, and the Indian Govt have played a major role in promoting this sort of dangerous fuckwittery. FFS. Seriously, FFS.
5
36
105
I am guessing you mean "dielectric". Otherwise it's a different type of project, and potatoes have political views.
Boeing use potatoes to test their in-flight Wi-Fi, as they reflect and absorb the signals similarly to people. The project is called Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution- or SPUDS.
44
525
3K
13
21
104
Psychic Sally's lawyer sent me a CONFIDENTIAL & heavy email. You can read it & my reply here
http://t.co/NOd4zsdC
42
546
103
My 90-year-old dad is not online, so he asked me to sign him up for the "Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU." petition
4
32
102
To teach kids about democracy, I let them vote on dinner.
They picked pizza. Then I made tacos because they don't live in a swing state.
HT - FourWordReplies
9
9
97
Massively excited about this. Five weeks to go before it airs in the UK. Relieved that I was not running the meth-amatics stand. Thanks to
@AlJean
& the writers for the cameo, but now my literary agent is hassling me about when I'll have a first draft.
7
18
98
UPDATED: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs [Extended]
http://t.co/TEzrLFYiYJ
http://t.co/mIeM0vqoEJ
4
156
92
Courtesy of
@DaveWardDrummer
The Taming of the Flu
Second patient to get the COVID jab at University Hospital Coventry - would you believe it....William Shakespeare from Warwickshire
1K
4K
31K
3
10
99