The Mathematics of Love, Hannah Fry
The Mathematics of Love, Hannah Fry
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The Mathematics of Love

Author: Hannah Fry

Narrator: Hannah Fry

Unabridged: 2 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/03/2015

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

In this must-have for anyone who wants to better understand their love life, a mathematician pulls back the curtain and reveals the hidden patterns—from dating sites to divorce, sex to marriage—behind the rituals of love.

The roller coaster of romance is hard to quantify; defining how lovers might feel from a set of simple equations is impossible. But that doesn’t mean that mathematics isn’t a crucial tool for understanding love.

Love, like most things in life, is full of patterns. And mathematics is ultimately the study of patterns—from predicting the weather to the fluctuations of the stock market, the movement of planets or the growth of cities. These patterns twist and turn and warp and evolve just as the rituals of love do.

In The Mathematics of Love, Dr. Hannah Fry takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the patterns that define our love lives, applying mathematical formulas to the most common yet complex questions pertaining to love: What’s the chance of finding love? What’s the probability that it will last? How do online dating algorithms work, exactly? Can game theory help us decide who to approach in a bar? At what point in your dating life should you settle down?

From evaluating the best strategies for online dating to defining the nebulous concept of beauty, Dr. Fry proves—with great insight, wit, and fun—that math is a surprisingly useful tool to negotiate the complicated, often baffling, sometimes infuriating, always interesting, mysteries of love.

About Hannah Fry

Dr. Hannah Fry is a mathematician and complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Fry also regularly presents the Number Hub strand of BBC Worldwide’s YouTube channel, Headsqueeze. Her first TED talk attracted more than 500,000 views across all TED channels and evolved into her first book, The Mathematics of Love.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Keyo on August 14, 2020

How can I increase my chances of finding a partner like Hannah Fry?! (She is amazing) don't expect this to be a book like Erich From's The Art of Loving it is about Mathematics of love Mathematics is the language of the universe! and yes, in theory, you can define what is love and how to solve its prob......more

Goodreads review by Anima on February 22, 2017

"What I am, however, is a mathematician. And in my day job of teasing out and understanding the patterns in human behavior, I’ve come to realize that mathematics can offer a new way of looking at almost anything—even something as mysterious as love." "I wanted to write this book because I’m always a......more

Goodreads review by Mahdi on May 29, 2018

Being physicist and working as a mathematician, I was really trying to not using my math brain (80% of my thoughts, memories, and intuition) for analysis of my relation and love. It was in the stress of I do so, I will become more robot I already am, and my math-driven life will collapse to a mad sc......more

Goodreads review by Sunny on September 10, 2020

It’s been a remarkably long time since I sat down and even have begun to think of why or how I would review a book, but here I am. It’s good that I am for this one, too, because this work of Hannah Fry’s is awesome. (I could stop here, but I won’t, as I’ll have to give some evidence as to why this w......more

Goodreads review by Remo on March 28, 2022

Entretenidísimo libro que en apenas 100 páginas nos hace un recorrido por muchas zonas de la matemáticas, con el hilo conductor del amor. Bastante logrado: El capítulo 1: ¿qué probabilidades tengo de encontrar pareja? nos presenta la ecuación de Drake adaptada a encontrar pareja en vez de extraterres......more