Mathematician and comedian Matt Parker has gone to great lengths to make his flyers distinctive – if you are paying attention.

When he had his 8000 Fringe flyers printed he asked for the design on the back to be slightly different on all of them. Any pair of the flyers for his show Getting Triggy With It will only have one symbol in common out of 102 symbols. 

I can;t decide whether this is mad or inspired, but it has got him some coverage for his show which accompanies his most recent international best-selling book (#1 Best seller in the UK) Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry (out in paperback June 2025). As well as amusing insight into his love of triangles and hilarious adventures in crowdsourced maths, the show sees Matt take on AI and robots with his unique brand of nerdy enthusiasm.

Matt Parker is a stand-up comedian, best-selling author and a YouTuber with over 1.3 million subscribers and over one hundred million views. He is a regular on Discovery’s Outrageous Acts of Science and BBC Radio 4’s More or Less and has been heard on BBC Radio 4’s Infinite Monkey Cage and The Museum of Curiosity. Matt has previously held world records for both the Rubik’s Cube and Space Invaders. He has flipped a coin 10,000 times, traveled to Antarctica, memorized π to hundreds of digits, and been stung by a bullet ant in the Amazon, all in the pursuit of maths.

Matt Parker's Getting Triggy With It is on at 6.30pm at the Pleasance Courtyard until August 25. Buy tickets here. It's then on tour. Details here.

Picture by Steve Ullathorne