Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus

Discover the mathematics behind Christmas with star of Celebrity Traitors and host of The Rest is Science podcast Dr Hannah Fry. This is the perfect, intelligent stocking filler for the boffin in your life.'A smart, witty, original take on the festive season, with calculations and theories to help you prepare and solve your Christmas conundrums.' The SunHow do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list?Can you predict His Majesty's Christmas Message? Will calculations show Santa getting steadily thinner - shimmying up and down chimneys - or fatter, as he tucks into a mince pie 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. Learn exactly how to avoid a secret Santa disaster and a sure-fire way to win the festive family games. Hannah Fry and Thomas Oléron Evans prove 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'Hannah Fry is quickly becoming the David Attenborough of maths.' Telegraph