The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus

Informationen zum Autor Hannah Fry is an Associate Professor in the mathematics of cities from University College London. She is also the author of The Mathematics of Love , The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus and Hello World and regularly writes for The New Yorker. In her day job she uses mathematical models to study patterns in human behaviour, and has worked with governments, police forces, health analysts and supermarkets. Her TED talks have amassed millions of views and she has fronted television documentaries for the BBC and PBS. With Adam she co-hosts the long-running science podcast, 'The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry' with the BBC. Klappentext Hannah Fry (Author) Hannah Fry is an Associate Professor in the mathematics of cities from University College London. In her day job she uses mathematical models to study patterns in human behaviour, and has worked with governments, police forces, health analysts and supermarkets. Her TED talks have amassed millions of views and she has fronted television documentaries for the BBC and PBS; she also hosts the long-running science podcast, ¿The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry¿ with the BBC. Zusammenfassung How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list? Can you predict Her Majesty's Christmas Message? Full of diagrams, sketches and graphs, equations, Markov chains and matrices, this book intends to brighten up the bleak midwinters with lots of mathematical marvels.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Oleron Evans, Dr Hannah Fry, Hannah Fry, Dr Thomas Oleron Evans, Thomas Oleron Evans, Thomas Oléron Evans
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.11.2017
• EAN: 9781784162740
• ISBN: 978-1-78416-274-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Humour, satire, satirical comedy; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Christmas, popular science, HUMOR / Form / Essays, Humour, Gift books, Humour collections & anthologies, Humour collections and anthologies, Popular mathematics