The updated edition of this dazzling, magical mathematical tour of the festive season with the most elegant mathematical solutions to your Christmas conundrums, from how to avoid a secret Santa disaster to how to win the festive family games.
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.
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.
Hannah Fry is quickly becoming the David Attenborough of maths.
*Telegraph*
A smart, witty, original take on the festive season, with
calculations and theories to help you prepare and solve your
Christmas conundrums.
*The Sun*
Just in case the charm and beauty of mathematical thinking has
passed by some of your friends and family, they will be grateful
for this slim volume in their stocking. The puzzles and games of
Hannah Fry and Thomas Evans involving present-wrapping and Queen's
Speech bingo are but an entry drug for heady passages about the
natureof truth and game theory.
*New Scientist*
From the perfect Secret Santa gift to finally proving the existence
of St Nick, a new book uses mathematics to crack the toughest
festival conundrums.
*Evening Standard*
The broadcaster and author of The Mathematics of Love teams up with
a mathematician and writer for this intelligent stocking filler ...
sounds enormous fun.
*Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller*
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