A MATHEMATICIAN and stand-up is coming to a six-sided polygon in Reading next week.
Matt Parker, Australian author of the best-selling books Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension and Humble Pi: A Comedy of Math Errors is bringing his latest show to The Hexagon.
Getting Triggy With It: Matt Parker Does the Maths is the stage accompaniment to his latest work, Love Triangle, which explores the life-changing magic of trigonometry.
It explores Parker’s love of triangles, adventures in crowd-sourced maths, and takes on robots, AI, and more.
Parker has risen to prominence as a stand-up and through popular mathematics, with appearances on marquee science programmes including BBC Radio 4’s Infinite Monkey Cage and The Museum of Curiosity, as well as Discovery’s Outrageous Acts of Science.
He’s also brought his humour and perspective to engagement in mathematics to the public through his work with Brady Haran’s YouTube project Numberphile, as well as one-third of the Festival of The Spoken Nerd alongside Helen Arney and Steve Mould.
Elsewhere he has performed as part of lectures and presentations at Shakespeare’s Globe, The Royal Institution, The British Library, TED, and Latitude Festival.
Parker also started MathsJam in 2008 as an informal gathering of London maths teachers, university students, academics and people from industry who enjoyed talking about maths in the pub.
MathsJams now occur on the second-last Tuesday of the month over 50 cities all around the UK and globally, with an annual conference in November.
Getting Triggy with It: Matt Parker Does the Maths comes to Reading’s Hexagon theatre on Wednesday, March 4.
Full details and tickets are available via: standupmaths.com/shows
