The indisputable existence of Santa Claus : the mathematics of Christmas / Dr. Hannah Fry & Dr. Thomas Ol©♭ron Evans.
By: Fry, Hannah [author.].
Contributor(s): Evans, Thomas Ol©♭ron [author.].
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : The Overlook Press, 2017Copyright date: ℗♭2017Description: 151 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781468316124; 1468316125.Subject(s): Christmas -- Miscellanea | Mathematics -- Popular works | MATHEMATICS / Recreations & GamesGenre/Form: Trivia and miscellanea.DDC classification: 394.26630151 FRY | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Doubleday.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : I wish it could be Christmas everyday -- The indisputable existence of Santa Claus -- Decorating the tree -- Buying presents -- Secret Santa -- Wrapping presents -- Cooking turkey -- Dividing dessert -- Christmas crackers -- The Queen -- How to win a monopoly -- Watching Santa's weight.
"In The indisputable existence of Santa Claus, mathematicians Hannah Fry and Thomas Ol©♭ron Evans take readers on a festive journey through the pitfalls of a traditional holiday season. Lighthearted and diverting, and brimming with Christmassy diagrams, sketches and graphs, equations, Markov chains, and matrices, The indisputable existence of Santa Claus brightens up the bleak midwinter with stockingsful of mathematical marvels. Math has never been merrier."--Back cover.
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