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🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Comedian/mathematician/YouTuber/author Matt Parker (@standupmaths) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about his new book Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World, his podcast A Problem Squared, his Edinburgh Fringe show Getting Triggy With It, Mathstodon, a hawk that uses traffic patterns to target prey, desire paths, Earth's leaking core, the Gibeon meteor, Matt's comedy tour dates and Andy's Colorado music dates.
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| 0:00.0 | Probably Science |
| 0:02.0 | Hello and welcome to Probably Science. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host, one of three, in fact. I'm Jesse Case. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm number two, Andy Wood. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm, oh, what's the next, not letter? |
| 0:21.6 | What's the other type of thing that's for counting? Anyway, I'm Matt Kirshin. How's it going? Yeah, hey, buddy. Hey, buddy. Well, we're never going to understand math. It's never going to happen and we don't know anyone that can help us and that's it. Well, actually, actually, Jesse, weird. We'll say that because our guest right now is a comedian who's at the Edinburgh Fringe, but also a mathematician. |
| 0:43.6 | No. |
| 0:44.1 | He's the comedy mat who carried on with the studies and actually knows what he's talking about. |
| 0:50.0 | And also has a brand new book out called Love Triangle that you can read right now. |
| 0:55.0 | You can also see him in person doing getting tricky with it. |
| 0:58.0 | Matt Parker does the maths in Edinburgh right now, this month. |
| 1:03.0 | It is Matt Parker. |
| 1:04.0 | Getting tricky with it. |
| 1:06.0 | I've been on the episode the whole time. |
| 1:08.0 | I mean, what are the chances? |
| 1:10.0 | Wow. You were here, so we didn't just, wow, he's here the whole time. I mean, what are the chances? Wow. You were here, so we didn't just, wow, |
| 1:13.4 | he's here the whole time. Uh, how you doing? I'm good. As, um, other Matt correctly mentioned, |
| 1:20.8 | I'm doing the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which is 27 consecutive shows in 27 days. |
| 1:28.5 | So I'm, I've done eight of them. |
| 1:33.6 | So, you know, that's not bad. |
| 1:36.4 | We're getting there, but it's a lot. |
| 1:39.1 | Yeah. |
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