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The sun hangs low in the sky.

A soft strain of jazz swells in the air,

mingling with the gentle rustle of leaves and the breeze.

Chris, our protagonist, stands tall under a canopy of flowers.

His blue eyes twinkling in the golden late light of the summer's day.

But Chris is nervous.

Its heart is racing.

And then all of a sudden, there she is.

Time seems to slurring and flex as the woman he loves walks towards him.

In that moment, it dawns on him.

He's found his soulmate, that something is about to spoil it all.

Chris wakes up. The meadow is gone, replaced instead by the cold underside of a computer desk.

Would I describe myself as lucky in love?

Um, no.

I'm Hannah Fry, a mathematician who studies patterns in human behavior. No.

I'm Hannah Fry, a mathematician who studies patterns in human behaviour.

And from BBC Radio 4, this is Uncharted, tales of data and discovery.

This is a series about how numbers and graphs can help you to map the invisible,

about how plots can be rich with hidden depths and unheard stories and about how sometimes if you know where to look there is mystery and drama

and intrigue to be found all concealed within a few simple lines on a page.

Our story starts in the city of Los Angeles, albeit far away from the glamour of Hollywood. Chris McKinley has woken up in a small, cramped cubicle, a desktop computer, his only companion.

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