Oh, hey, it's quite frankly, the episode that you never thought you'd click on.

And it's the one that I never thought I would do because mathematics, it's an ix, it's not an ology.

But over the years, y'all have begged me to cover this, I swear.

And I found an ology suitable and an ologist who's going to get us emotional about numbers.

Believe it, and also non-numbers.

Come on a journey. Take this VIP pass, come slip behind the curtain backstage for a more intimate chill hang with a topic that maybe has seemed a lot of reach, a little intimidating.

You're about to meet the really

charming and artsy side of math. So this ologist, of course, is a professional

mather, an author, and a speaker who holds a PhD in pure mathematics from the University of Cambridge and taught at the University of Cambridge,

Chicago, and Niece. She won tenure and pure mathematics at the University of Sheffield in the UK has appeared on late night shows

hyping people up about math has given TED Talks and written several books on the

topic such as How to Bake Pie and her latest one is,

Is Math Real?

How simple questions lead us to mathematics deepest truths.

She's one of us and the best person possible

to cover this topic.

So she jumped on a mic from the Midwest,

where she's currently the scientist and residence

at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

And she's also a concert pianist.

You're just gonna love her.

But first thank you to patrons at patreon.com slash ologies for submitting your questions.

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