In October 2025, one of India's national cricket teams set a new record with 18.

Why did they feel hard done by?

The answer to that at the end of the show.

My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

All right, welcome to Lateral Fit, the only workout class that exercises every muscle except the ones you'd expect.

We're going to warm up with some light banter, stretch our curiosity, and then absolutely shred our

assumptions until they cry. If at any point you feel faint, confused confused or personally attacked by a sneaky question,

that means you're doing it right! And here to join us on today's mental boot camp

are our three extremely resilient guests. First, welcome back to the show, a mathematician

and hopefully by this point for the endth time published author. Katie Steckles, welcome back. Hello.

What's the book and what's the podcast? The book is, Why Don't Rabbits Rule the World,

which is a little kind of pop maths thing that sort of explores some aspects of maths in the

world around us. I guess it's basically just a fun excuse for us to write about various

interesting bits of maths, including things like if you had infinitely many monkeys, would they write Shakespeare and all that kind of stuff?

And yeah, I also have a podcast called Mathematical Objects, and we've just recently finished putting out series 9, I think, of that, which is just me and my palpicerola, having a nice chat about some

interesting maths behind an object.

You are a regular on the show now. Thank you very much for being part of it. How was it last

time? I think we took a long time to come around to realising a very simple maths thing

at one point. Yeah, I think that happens sometimes, right?

If you're just looking at it from a different angle,

it doesn't look like what you're expecting,

but that's part of the fun.

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