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The mathematics of love [sound recording] : patterns, proofs and the search for the ultimate equation / Hannah Fry.

by Fry, Hannah.

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Ted Books/Simon & Schuster Audio, p2015.

COMPACT DISC 128.46 F946m

Love -- Anecdotes.

Interpersonal attraction -- Anecdotes.

Attachment behavior -- Ancedotes.

Dating (Social customs) -- Anecdotes.

Man-woman relationships -- Anecdotes.

Mathematics -- Anecdotes.

View online: The mathematics of love -- Hannah Fry -- from TEDxBinghamtonUniversity.

[sound recording] :

2 compact discs (2:30 hrs.) : digital ; 12 cm.

"Includes a PDF of reference materials"--Container.

Read by the author.

There is no topic that attracts more attention, more energy and time and devotion, than love. As long as there's been recorded history, love has taken center seat as the inspiration for countless paintings, instigator of wars, muse of untold poets and musicians. And just as poetry, art and music have the ability to communicate something about love that is difficult to articulate with words, the same is true of mathematics. Of course, mathematics can't easily help us translate the emotional side of love, emotions rarely behave in a neatly ordered, rational and easily predictable way. But that doesn't mean that mathematics isn't crucial to 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. These patterns twist and turn and warp and evolve just as the rituals of love do. Dr. Hannah Fry takes the listener on a fascinating journey through the patterns that define our love lives, tackling some of the most common yet complex questions pertaining to love: What's the chance of us finding love? What's the chance that it will last? How does online dating work, exactly? When should you settle down? How can you avoid divorce? When is it right to compromise? From evaluating the best strategies for online dating to defining the nebulous concept of beauty, Dr. Fry proves that math is a surprisingly useful tool to negotiate the complicated, often baffling, sometimes infuriating, always interesting, patterns of love. Dr. Hannah Fry is a mathematician and complexity scientist from University College London's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Her work revolves around exploring the patterns in human behavior and applying a mathematical perspective to tackle a wide range of problems across our society. Alongside her academic position, Fry is passionate about sharing the abstract beauty of mathematics. Her TED talk on the topic of this book can be viewed online.

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