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The Mathematics of Love

By: Hannah Fry
Narrated by: Hannah Fry
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Summary

 In this must-have for anyone who wants to better understand their love life, a mathematician pulls back the curtain and reveals the hidden patterns—from dating sites to divorce, sex to marriage—behind the rituals of love.

The roller coaster of romance is hard to quantify; defining how lovers might feel from a set of simple equations is impossible. But that doesn’t mean that mathematics isn’t a crucial tool for understanding love.

Love, like most things in life, is full of patterns. And mathematics is ultimately the study of patterns—from predicting the weather to the fluctuations of the stock market, the movement of planets or the growth of cities. These patterns twist and turn and warp and evolve just as the rituals of love do.

In The Mathematics of Love, Dr. Hannah Fry takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the patterns that define our love lives, applying mathematical formulas to the most common yet complex questions pertaining to love: What’s the chance of finding love? What’s the probability that it will last? How do online dating algorithms work, exactly? Can game theory help us decide who to approach in a bar? At what point in your dating life should you settle down?

From evaluating the best strategies for online dating to defining the nebulous concept of beauty, Dr. Fry proves—with great insight, wit, and fun—that math is a surprisingly useful tool to negotiate the complicated, often baffling, sometimes infuriating, always interesting, mysteries of love. Love, Dating & Attraction Marriage & Long-Term Partnerships Mathematics Relationships Sociology Dating
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The narrator has a voice I could listen to all day, and the subject matter is interesting and light-hearted. I purchased her other audiobook, which I heard her talking about on the radio, largely on performance of this one. I hope that one turns out to be just as good.

Outstanding Narrator

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Very interesting take on love and absolute delight for people with soft spots for geekness (like me) and to top it all up Hannah's voice is completeling hypnotising. Good choice!

Very enjoyable

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Great book with surprising conclusions. Some of the equations are hard to understand when they aren't written down in front of you. Hannah Fry has an amazing voice for audio books.

Fun and surprising

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I really enjoyed listening to this audiobook, it's funny and interesting. I loved studying mathematics in school and it's nice to see it applied to a field I wouldn't have expected to.

Great book

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Loved it! Would recommend to anyone who is lost in the world of love and is looking for some practical answer to her/his questions

Very good book, recommend it!

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