Hannah Fry: 4 books

In this must-have for anyone who wants to better understand their love life, a mathematician pulls back the curtain and reveals the hidden patterns—from dating sites to divorce, sex to marriage—behind the rituals of love. The roller coaster of romance is hard to quantify; defining how lovers...

**Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize A look inside the algorithms that are shaping our lives and the dilemmas they bring with them.** If you were accused of a crime, who would you rather decide your sentence—a mathematically consistent algorithm incapable...

How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list? What equations should you use to decorate the Christmas tree? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily thinner—shimmying up and down chimneys for a whole night—or fatter—as he munches on cookies and...

　　★**　　★《華盛頓郵報》、《衛報》、《星期日泰晤士報》、美國公共廣播電台NPR推薦** **　　★ 超高人氣TED演講熱烈突破300萬觀賞次數** **　　愛情，人類最廣泛討論、複雜又費解的課題，其實充滿了模式。** **　　數學，是非常實用的解題妙方。** 　　找到真愛的機率是多少？英俊、貌美到底重不重要？ 　　網路交友是怎麼運作的？如何選擇傳送訊息的對象？ 　　約會後要打電話給對方嗎？什麼時候該找個人定下來？如何避免離婚？ 　　世界萬事萬物幾乎都可以用數學加以分析，愛情也不例外。 　　愛情，從尋尋覓覓開始，一路或喜悅、或神魂顛倒的酸甜苦辣，其實充滿了模式。 　　數學就是研究模式的學問。我們用數學預測從氣象、規劃城市發展、觀察宇宙定律或次原子粒子，這些課題複雜難解的程度，不亞於愛情。 　　數學將現實抽象化，讓我們得以找出世界原本隱而未顯的模式和機制，讓我們與愛情更靠近一點，也認識到數學的美好。 TED...