Description
What if Santa’s sleigh, routes, and timing weren’t just folklore—but solvable problems? In this playful collaboration, mathematicians Hannah Fry and Thomas Oléron Evans guide you through the holiday season using diagrams, sketches, and delightfully serious tools like equations, Markov chains, and matrices. Along the way, they tackle the practical “gotchas” behind a seemingly impossible task, turning everyday Christmas questions into clear, surprising mathematical insights. Equal parts festive and rigorous, the book celebrates how math can illuminate uncertainty, optimize decisions, and make the world feel a little more wonder-filled—especially in the bleak midwinter.
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paperback
Transworld Publishers Limited
Published Jan 1, 2017
160 pages
ISBN: 9781784162740
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First Published
2017
Language
eng
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