Happy 7th of December!
Throughout the month, to accompany the release of our book on the Mathematics of Christmas, Hannah Fry & I are tweeting out Christmathsy bits and pieces, one a day, advent calendar style. Assuming we don’t run out of ideas, that is…
Another mini-puzzle today:
Answers via the comments or on Twitter. All correct answers will be rewarded with deep respect and warm Christmas wishes.
Enjoy!
Happy 6th of December!
Throughout the month, to accompany the release of our book on the Mathematics of Christmas, Hannah Fry & I are tweeting out Christmathsy bits and pieces, one a day, advent calendar style. Assuming we don’t run out of ideas, that is…
Another puzzle today:
And take note of this observation from Michael Baym:
Happy 5th of December!
Throughout the month, to accompany the release of our book on the Mathematics of Christmas, Hannah Fry & I are tweeting out Christmathsy bits and pieces, one a day, advent calendar style. Assuming we don’t run out of ideas, that is…
Something a bit different today. As part of the research for our book, we created a two-step Markov model to analyse the Queen’s Christmas Messages and generate tweets in the same style. We’ll be tweeting these out from now until she delivers her message (When you can test how accurate we were!).
Across her 64 messages (including a written message in 1969), our Liz has actually got through a remarkably wide range of topics (with admirably little repetition, given the unvarying nature of her brief!), so don’t be surprised if the Elizabot comes out with the occasional musing on magnets, bagpipes or football.
Happy 4nd of December!
Throughout the month, to accompany the release of our book on the Mathematics of Christmas, Hannah Fry & I are tweeting out Christmathsy bits and pieces, one a day, advent calendar style. Assuming we don’t run out of ideas, that is…
Today, a mini-puzzle:
DON’T FORGET, you still have until midnight tonight (Sunday) to enter our competition…
Happy 3nd of December!
Throughout the month, to accompany the release of our book on the Mathematics of Christmas, Hannah Fry & I are tweeting out Christmathsy bits and pieces, one a day, advent calendar style. Assuming we don’t run out of ideas, that is…
Today, a joke:
DON’T FORGET, you still have until tomorrow night (Sunday) to enter our competition…
Happy 2nd of December!
Throughout the month, to accompany the release of our book on the Mathematics of Christmas, Hannah Fry & I are tweeting out Christmathsy bits and pieces, one a day, advent calendar style. Assuming we don’t run out of ideas, that is…
Today’s advent offering is a quick puzzle. Answers via the comments or on Twitter. All correct answers will be rewarded with deep respect and warm Christmas wishes.
Also, there’s still a couple of days to enter yesterday’s competition.
Enjoy!
Happy First of December!
Throughout the month, Hannah Fry & I will be tweeting out Christmathsy bits and pieces, one a day, advent calendar style… Assuming we don’t run out of ideas, which is certainly possible (What do you mean we should have thought this through beforehand?).
First up, a competition!
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— Hannah Fry (@FryRsquared) December 1, 2016
In our new book, The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus, Dr Hannah Fry and I discuss a mathematically superior way to organise your office Secret Santa. However, some people think they have found a flaw in our system…
Never fear though, we have a solution up our sleeves. I just hope you like cutting and sticking…
Here’s The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus, a book on the mathematics of Christmas, which I wrote with the brilliant Dr Hannah Fry.
