Hannah Fry

The Mathematics of Love

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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.
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126 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • dmitrylyshared an impression8 years ago
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  • Daniela Orozcohas quoted5 years ago
    in 2010 mathematician and long-standing singleton Peter Backus even calculated that there were more intelligent alien civilizations in the galaxy than potential girlfriends for him to date.
  • dmitrylyhas quoted8 years ago
    Say you start dating when you are fifteen years old and would ideally like to settle down by the time you’re forty. In the first 37 per cent of your dating window (until just after your twenty-fourth birthday), you should reject everyone; use this time to get a feel for the market and a realistic assessment of what you can expect in a life partner. Once this rejection phase has passed, pick the next person that comes along who is better than everyone that you have met before.
  • dmitrylyhas quoted8 years ago
    It tells you that if you are destined to date ten people in your lifetime, you have the highest probability of finding The One when you reject your first four lovers (where you’d find them 39.87 per cent of the time). If you are destined to date twenty people, you should reject the first eight (where Mister or Ms Right would be waiting for you 38.42 per cent of the time). And, if you are destined to date an infinite number of partners, you should reject the first 37 per cent, giving you just over a one in three chance of success

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