The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus
Hannah Fry, Thomas Oléron Evans
Language: English
Published by Transworld Publishers Ltd, GB, 2017
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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.
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- Title
- The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus
- Author
- Hannah Fry, Thomas Oléron Evans
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd, GB
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1784162744
- ISBN 13
- 9781784162740
- Item weight
- 375 grams
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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
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About the Author
Hannah Fry, PhD is a broadcaster and lecturer of the Mathematics of Cities at the University College London. She is the author of The Mathematics of Love, and her TED talk on the subject has been viewed over five million times. She regularly appears on BBC television and radio.
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