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Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus

Hannah Fry

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      How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list ? Can you predict Her Majesty's Christmas Message? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily thinner - shimmying up and down chimneys for a whole night - or fatter - as he tucks into a mince pie and a glass of sherry in billions of houses across the world?Full of diagrams, sketches and graphs, beautiful equations, Markov chains and matrices, The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus brightens up the bleak midwinter with stockingfuls of mathematical marvels. And proves once and for all that maths isn't just for old men with white hair and beards who associate with elves.Maths has never been merrier.NOW WITH A BRAND NEW CHAPTER
      CONTRIBUTORS: Hannah Fry EAN: 9781784162740 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 375 g HEIGHT: 205 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Transworld Publishers Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-11-16 CITY: GENRE: HUMOR / Form / Essays, RELIGION / Holidays / Christmas & Advent WIDTH: 132 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Christmas, Mathematics, Popular science, Humour, Humour collections and anthologies, Gift books

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      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.

      Format: Hardback

      How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list ? Can you predict Her Majesty's Christmas Message? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily thinner - shimmying up and down chimneys for a whole night - or fatter - as he tucks into a mince pie and a glass of sherry in billions of houses across the world?Full of diagrams, sketches and graphs, beautiful equations, Markov chains and matrices, The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus brightens up the bleak midwinter with stockingfuls of mathematical marvels. And proves once and for all that maths isn't just for old men with white hair and beards who associate with elves.Maths has never been merrier.NOW WITH A BRAND NEW CHAPTER
      CONTRIBUTORS: Hannah Fry EAN: 9781784162740 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 375 g HEIGHT: 205 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Transworld Publishers Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-11-16 CITY: GENRE: HUMOR / Form / Essays, RELIGION / Holidays / Christmas & Advent WIDTH: 132 cm SPINE:

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      Christmas, Mathematics, Popular science, Humour, Humour collections and anthologies, Gift books

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      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.

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