Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
@SimonClark answers randomly selected speed-dating-style questions with University of Oxford Mathematician Dr Tom Crawford. The video is best summarised by two nerds having way too much fun. Featuring warhammer, life as a full-time YouTuber, Dad jokes, and something or other maths related... Full list of questions with timestamps below.
3:04 - Do you have any nicknames?
4:13 - What are you currently watching?
8:47 - What is your favourite millennium problem?
12:33 - What are your favourite places you have visited?
15:39 - If you could commit one crime and get away with it, what would it be?
17:36 - What was the biggest trouble you got into at school?
20:31 - What is your favourite number?
23:29 - Honesty or sparing someone's feelings?
25:18 - What is the most adventurous thing you have ever done?
29:22 - What would be the title of your biography?
31:14 - What is your favourite equation?
34:44 - What is your dream job?
38:24 - What colour best describes your personality?
40:20 - What is your best joke?
41:32 - What are other YouTube channels you watch?
45:44 - Exploring or lazing on the beach?
48:00 - Would you rather be forgotten or remembered for all the wrong reasons?
49:56 - What was your most embarrassing moment?
Check out Simon's channel here: youtube.com/c/simonoxfphys
More in the Maths Speed Dating series:
@3blue1brown: youtube.com/watch?v=Xh2LVy7B5q0
@MikeBoyd: youtu.be/BQnQsa-VDeg
@DorFuchs: youtube.com/watch?v=nKr7NQJ_kM0
Produced by Dr Tom Crawford at the University of Oxford. Tom is an Early-Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow in Mathematics at St Edmund Hall: seh.ox.ac.uk/people/tom-crawford
For more maths content check out Tom's website tomrocksmaths.com
You can also follow Tom on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @tomrocksmaths.
facebook.com/tomrocksmaths
twitter.com/tomrocksmaths
instagram.com/tomrocksmaths
Get your Tom Rocks Maths merchandise here:
beautifulequations.net/collections/tom-rocks-maths
@SimonClark answers randomly selected speed-dating-style questions with University of Oxford Mathematician Dr Tom Crawford. The video is best summarised by two nerds having way too much fun. Featuring warhammer, life as a full-time YouTuber, Dad jokes, and something or other maths related... Full list of questions with timestamps below.
3:04 - Do you have any nicknames?
4:13 - What are you currently watching?
8:47 - What is your favourite millennium problem?
12:33 - What are your favourite places you have visited?
15:39 - If you could commit one crime and get away with it, what would it be?
17:36 - What was the biggest trouble you got into at school?
20:31 - What is your favourite number?
23:29 - Honesty or sparing someone's feelings?
25:18 - What is the most adventurous thing you have ever done?
29:22 - What would be the title of your biography?
31:14 - What is your favourite equation?
34:44 - What is your dream job?
38:24 - What colour best describes your personality?
40:20 - What is your best joke?
41:32 - What are other YouTube channels you watch?
45:44 - Exploring or lazing on the beach?
48:00 - Would you rather be forgotten or remembered for all the wrong reasons?
49:56 - What was your most embarrassing moment?
Check out Simon's channel here: youtube.com/c/simonoxfphys
More in the Maths Speed Dating series:
@3blue1brown: youtube.com/watch?v=Xh2LVy7B5q0
@MikeBoyd: youtu.be/BQnQsa-VDeg
@DorFuchs: youtube.com/watch?v=nKr7NQJ_kM0
Produced by Dr Tom Crawford at the University of Oxford. Tom is an Early-Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow in Mathematics at St Edmund Hall: seh.ox.ac.uk/people/tom-crawford
For more maths content check out Tom's website tomrocksmaths.com
You can also follow Tom on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @tomrocksmaths.
facebook.com/tomrocksmaths
twitter.com/tomrocksmaths
instagram.com/tomrocksmaths
Get your Tom Rocks Maths merchandise here:
beautifulequations.net/collections/tom-rocks-maths
