Mathematics Quotes by Hannah Fry

8 Mathematics quotes by Hannah Fry

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Hannah Fry’s eight notes on Mathematics feel like friendly chat, turning complex concepts into stories we can all follow.

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There's barely any aspect of our modern lives that hasn't had a mathematical contribution at some point and yet, if you asked…

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I'm writing a book called 'The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus' about the maths of Christmas: how to set up a secret…

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There's actually an awful lot of mathematics that goes into designing a railway, keeping it running, making sure everything runs optimally. Every…

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I'm a mathematician. I can trade in facts about false positives and absolute truths about accuracy and statistics with complete confidence.

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I think people have this hang-up from school that maths is this dusty old textbook that was finished hundreds of years ago,…

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Imagine life without any algorithms at all, you wouldn't be able to do anything. This is already completely encompassing. We have a…

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In medicine, you learn about ethics from day one. In mathematics, it's a bolt-on at best. It has to be there from…

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Because for me, equations and symbols aren't just a thing. They're a voice that speaks out about the incredible richness of nature…

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Curating our data is valuable. Like 23andMe - while selling us the chance to know whether we're Vikings or whatever, they're amassing these huge…

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A century ago the Spanish flu confounded scientists and devastated whole regions, but while today's society has air travel and an enormous, heterogeneous population,…

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We have this imbalance where the people who are making algorithms aren't talking to the people who are using them. And the people who…

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Wind depends on temperature. Temperature depends on pressure. And pressure depends on wind. It's an intricate mathematical tapestry that is far too intertwined to…

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I don't like the algorithms that don't do what they claim they do.

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Everything we're doing online is being not just monitored, but that information is being packaged up and sold and resold to manipulate us.

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Our long-range predictions - especially those which anticipate extreme-weather events - rely on an assumption that the future will be similar to the past.…

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