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Hannah Fry
Technology & AI
English mathematician, author and broadcaster who explains mathematics to the public, focusing on algorithms, human behaviour, and cities.
Biography
Hannah Mary Fry (born 21 February 1984) is an English mathematician, author and broadcaster. She is the first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge. She previously served as president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and was a professor of the mathematics of cities at University College London.
Fry's work includes studies of patterns of human behaviour, the mathematics behind pandemics, and scientific explanations of modern appliances. She has a strong public-engagement focus, giving the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2019 and presenting several BBC television and radio programmes, including The Secret Genius of Modern Life. Her outreach and writing have been recognised with awards including the Asimov Prize and the David Attenborough Award.
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Books by Hannah Fry
Hello world
Hello World tours the good, the bad, and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround daily life, explaining how they are written and implemented, how human bias can be encoded, and assessing their power, limitations and whether they improve on the human systems they replace.