Matt Parker: Humble Pi
Pleasance Dome (10 Dome)
31st July – 26th August
20:20 (60mins)
Book Tickets
Stand up mathematician, Matt Parker makes his solo Edinburgh Fringe debut with Humble Pi – a rigorous comedy show exploring the greatest mathematical mishaps involving planes, trains and autocorrect. Matt Parker is no stranger to maths mistakes, so he’s setting out to fix them all (and showing his working out).
Humble Pi is the live comedy show to accompany Matt’s book of the same name which was the first ever book about maths to be a #1 Sunday Times Best Seller, earlier this year. As Matt Parker shows us, our modern lives are built on maths: computer programmes, finance, engineering. Most of the time this maths works quietly behind the scenes, until… it doesn’t. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near-misses and mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman empire and a hapless Olympic shooting team, Matt Parker shows us the bizarre ways maths trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world.
As well as being a best-selling author, Matt Parker is a YouTuber with over 100 million views and the first person to use an overhead projector at the Hammersmith Apollo since Pink Floyd. He is a regular on is a regular on Discovery’s Outrageous Acts of Science and BB Radio 4’s More or Less.
As one third of science-comedy phenomenon Festival of the Spoken Nerd (with Helen Arney and Steve Mould), Matt has appeared on BBC2’s QI, created the BBC Radio 4 comedy show Domestic Science, performed at Shakespeare’s Globe, The British Library, TED, The Royal Institution, Latitude, James Randi’s ‘The Amaz!ng Meeting’ in Las Vegas enjoyed sell out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre. Matt also co-created the sell out show Edinburgh Fringe show Your Days Are Numbered: The Maths of Death (alongside Timandra Harkness).
