Hannah Fry

Hannah Fry

Hannah Fry is a mathematician, author, lecturer, radio and television presenter, podcaster and public speaker. Her work includes studying the patterns of human behaviour, such as interpersonal relationships and dating and how mathematics can apply to them. She has written three books, including The Mathematics of Love.

About Hannah Fry in brief

Summary Hannah FryHannah Fry is a mathematician, author, lecturer, radio and television presenter, podcaster and public speaker. Her work includes studying the patterns of human behaviour, such as interpersonal relationships and dating and how mathematics can apply to them. Fry is of Irish descent. She attended Presdales School in Ware, Hertfordshire, England, before studying mathematics at University College London. In 2013, Fry won the UCL Provost’s Public Engager of the Year award for her contributions to the public understanding of the mathematical sciences.

In 2018, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and Applications Society announced that Fry had won that year’s Christopher Zeeman Medal for her work in the field of mathematics. She is married and has two daughters. She has written three books, including The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation, and Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms. She regularly appears on BBC Radio 4 in the UK, including in Computing Britain.