Hannah Fry, Dr Thomas Oleron Evans

The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 9mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781784162740
• ISBN-10: 1784162744
• Artikelnr.: 48930890

Autorenporträt

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.