Dr Hannah Fry

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Our second episode recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, Robin is once again joined by guest co-host Sarah Kendall, with this week’s special guest mathematician, author and broadcaster Dr Hannah Fry. They chat about Hannah’s upcoming book Hello World, books on AI and the internet, air crash investigations, butter, baby food and making bad decisions based off of junk maths

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Reading List

Hannah recommends:

Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine by Hannah Fry

Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Dataclysm by Christian Rudder

Robin recommends:

When Einstein Walked with Gödel by Jim Holt

How the Universe Got Its Spots by Jana Levin

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Jana Levin

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman

The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus by Hannah Fry and Dr Thomas Oléron Evans

The Mathematics of Love by Hannah Fry

Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

Low Flying Aircraft and Other Stories by JG Ballard

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

 

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