Hannah Fry: How much of our lives is secretly underpinned by maths?

Hannah Fry: How much of our lives is secretly underpinned by maths?

Mathematician, BBC presenter and host of this year’s Royal Society Christmas Lectures explains how mathematics props up everything that we do.

Amy Arthur

Published: December 26, 2019 at 8:00 am

Hopefully by now the last crumbs of mince pie will be wiped clean and Grandad has woken up from his Christmas day nap.

If you’re anything like us, that period between Christmas and New Year means only one thing – lazing in front of the TV and watching the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. This institution has been sharing the wonders of science and entertaining children and adults alike for generations, and this year’s host hopes this year will be no different.

Our editorial assistant Amy Barret sat down with Hannah Fry, only the fourth mathematician to deliver one of the lectures, who’ll be showing the audience how maths secretly underpins much of the world around us in her lecture series called Secrets and Lies, broadcast on BBC Four on 26-28 December at 20:00.

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Amy Arthur

Science journalist and author

Amy Arthur is an award-winning writer and science journalist, specialising in health and wellbeing. She enjoys busting myths, trouncing TikTok trends and revealing surprising science. She is also the author of Pace Yourself: How to have energy in an exhausting world. Her BA degree specialised in science publishing and she has been working as a journalist since graduating in 2018. In 2020, Amy was named Editorial Assistant of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors.
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