Full name: The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus: The Mathematics of Christmas

Authors: Hannah Fry, Thomas Oleron Evans Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781468316124 1468316125

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, Proof That Santa Exists brightens up the bleak midwinter with stockingfuls of mathematiccal 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. Similar books: Humble Pi by Matt Parker In Pursuit of the Unknown by Ian Stewart The Calculus Diaries by Jennifer Ouellette How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg Geekspeak by Graham Tattersall 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know by John D. Barrow Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz by Edward B. Burger The Joy of x by Steven Strogatz Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets This Phenomenal Life by Misha Blaise Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer Knocking on Heaven's Door by Katy Butler The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku Survival of the Sickest by Sharon Moalem Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World by Paul Stamets 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know by Tony Crilly