Hannah Fry

Hannah Fry
Born	28 November 1986 Lewisham, London, United Kingdom
Fields	Mathematics
Alma mater	University College London
Known for	Mathematics of Love

Hannah Fry is a British complex systems theorist, lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities, and public speaker. Fry studies the patterns in human behaviour, particularly in an urban setting; for example, shopping, transport, urban crime, riots and terrorism.

In 2014 Fry gave a TED talk called 'The Mathematics of Love' at TEDxBinghamtonUniversity, which has attracted nearly 4 million views. Following the TED talk she published a book on the topic called The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation in which she applies statistical and data-scientific models to dating, sex and marriage.

Fry regularly appears on radio and television programs in the UK like Computing Britain,The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (with Adam Rutherford) and Music By Numbers. In the BBC 2 series City in the Sky Fry studies the logistics of aviation.

On 17 September 2015 Fry presented a film biography of Ada Lovelace for BBC television.

In 2016, Fry co-presented Trainspotting Live with Peter Snow, a three-part television series about trains and trainspotting on BBC 4. On 20 July 2016, she hosted a programme called The Joy of Data that examined the history of data and how it affects us today.

Fry attended Presdales School in Ware, Hertfordshire. She studied mathematics at University College London and stayed there to obtain a doctorate in fluid dynamics in 2011 for a thesis titled "A Study of Droplet Deformation".

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