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Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

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Re: Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

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hunnovi wrote: post #68
dofm wrote: post #62

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She was a professor in the mathematics of cities (applied spatial mathematics) before that — in her early thirties. She is an expert in applied mathematics (president of the applicable UK institute, actually) and this is absolutely of a piece with that; it's not some wishy-washy thing that she does. Public understanding of science has proved to be a valuable field, and I think this will be important. Her Oxford oppos…

> She was a professor in the mathematics of cities (applied spatial mathematics) before that — in her early thirties. But, that was not at Cambridge, which is what the original post by vgivanovic claimed, right? It was at University College London. > Public understanding of science has proved to be a valuable field, I never contested that, assuming that it is done responsibly and well. But that field, as well as a la…

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inamorty wrote: post #41
willis936 wrote: post #37

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Which episode? I subscribe but I don't have the attention surplus to listen to them all.

https://youtu.be/ClqvH-uG2Mw Hannah Predicted a Pandemic | The Rest Is Science

Starts at 32mins https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ClqvH-uG2Mw&t=1902s

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Post by frythrowaway »

I went to grab lunch then other day at work* and she was just randomly sitting in the canteen like a normal person.

I did like a quadruple-take then totally non-covertly took a photo to add their life-essence to my celebrity collection.

* Google DeepMind in LON

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Novosell wrote: post #30
tomfakes wrote: post #7

I’m a big fan of her current podcast - The Rest Is Science. Informative and entertaining as well as being easy to listen to (I’m not a fan of many audio-only shows, so listenability is a big factor for me)

I really like her, but man I find Michael unbearable. It also just feels too fake to me. I know they already knew the info they just had a strong reaction to, but they're reacting strongly on purpose for the sake of being engaging. I didn't find it annoying to start with, but it got more grating as I tried more episodes. I recall in one episode she says "That's amazing" or something to that effect, to a fact regardin…

But I mean, fluid dynamics is amazing. It still gives me frisson when certain ideas are reminded to me. I think she's completely honest with reactions, she loves science. Many of us share her enthusiasm and I love seeing hers.

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ryangittins wrote: post #55

It's been fun to see her steady rise since she first appeared on Numberphile more than ten years ago. She's a really excellent communicator of math and science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rudzYPHuewc

Her ted talk about the math of love is so great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFVXsjVdvmY

And when she straight laughs in Michael Steven's face about the price of a pencil.

https://youtu.be/SfY2JACiDGU?si=fKSkb3zpjZUQqUTx&t=1629

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Post by adw »

vgivanovic wrote: post #5

What I love most is that Hannah Fry didn't get into the Cambridge undergraduate(?) math program (maths programme for you Brits) but became a math professor at Cambridge. Go Hannah!

She went to UCL which is also a tier one university, though.

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Post by lostlogin »

thegabriele wrote: post #51
rustyhancock wrote: post #39

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It's not prophetic. Prophetic means it predicts the future, this is epidimlogical science being applied as intended. It didn't predict the future it designed it because we applied it. Contagion used GPS logging to predict who was where an applied a random transmission risk based on that. The actual origin of the Bluetooth proximity and duration tracking was from FluPhone back in 2010 or so[0] Human contact networks,…

Since you seems well versed in the matter...Did we learn something new from the whole covid experience?

> Did we learn something new from the whole covid experience?

The hardest part of a 5 day snap lockdown are the first 10 weeks.

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