Rowan Hooper

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1,000 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 11 Sep

Rowan Hooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And they're not doing perhaps the creative stuff yet.

Well, perhaps,

I was at the Royal Society yesterday, happened to walk past a portrait of Rene Descartes.

And the guy I was with, as we walked past, he swore.

At Descartes.

And I wish I'd had that.

I'm going to clip that little bit you've just said and

Well, there is this he did.

But look, just to go back to the thing you were saying about Pythagoras and right angled triangles.

And like you're saying, there are all these proofs as to why that relationship holds.

When you say Y to an evolutionary biologist, does it mean the same as it does to a mathematician?

I would

Well, Y to me means that, I would say, that right angle and the relationship between the lengths of the triangle

there's some evolved reason for it.

There's a meaning to it, but that's not what you mean.

Amazing.

thought of an evolutionary biology explanation for maths.

I love it.

That's amazing.

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