Author

Contributions

  • Evans, Thomas Oléron, author - Contributor

Publication

2017 - Harry N. Abrams, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

37,750 words, Guess

Page Count

151 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more

Classifications

  • DDC394.26630151
  • LCCGT4985 .F79 2017

Alternate Titles

  • Mathematics of Christmas

Description

"In The indisputable existence of Santa Claus, mathematicians Hannah Fry and Thomas Oléron Evans take readers on a festive journey through the pitfalls of a traditional holiday season. Lighthearted and diverting, and brimming with Christmassy diagrams, sketches and graphs, equations, Markov chains, and matrices, The indisputable existence of Santa Claus brightens up the bleak midwinter with stockingsful of mathematical marvels. Math has never been merrier."--Back cover.

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