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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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Hannah Fry is currently Professor in the mathematics of cities from University College London. In January 2025 she will join Cambridge University as the first Professor for the Public Understanding of Mathematics. In January 2024, Hannah was appointed to be the new president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Hannah is the author of The Mathematics of Love, The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus and Hello World and regularly writes for The New Yorker. Her work has included using mathematical models to study patterns in human behaviour, and she 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, PBS and Bloomberg TV. She co-hosts the long-running science podcast, 'The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry' with the BBC and since 2020, she has been the host of the podcast created for the artificial intelligence company, DeepMind.

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