The indisputable existence of Santa Claus : the mathematics of Christmas
Fry, Hannah2017
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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, this book brightens up the bleak midwinter with stockingfuls of mathematiccal marvels.
Main title:
The indisputable existence of Santa Claus : the mathematics of Christmas / Dr Hannah Fry & Dr Thomas Oléron Evans.
Author:
Fry, Hannah, authorEvans, Thomas Oléron, author
Imprint:
London : Black Swan, [2017]
Collation:
151 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2016.
ISBN:
9781784162740 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
394.266301
Language:
English
BRN:
1865812
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