Hannah Fry: how scary are algorithms really?

Beyond Today

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The mathematician Dr Hannah Fry is on a mission to improve the PR of maths. Hannah presents radio and TV shows on how maths runs the world, how data underpins everything we do, and on Boxing Day she’s giving the prestigious Royal Institution’s Christmas Lecture on the hidden secrets of maths. Hannah has also written a book about the inner workings of algorithms, and she came into the Beyond Today studio to talk the power of maths and how algorithms can help us live better. Presenter: Matthew Price Producers: Alicia Burrell and Philly Beaumont Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.2	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:07.8	Welcome to Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:11.1	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:21.2	Today we're talking to Hannah Fry. How scary are algorithms really?
0:27.0	Hannah Fry has managed to do something pretty remarkable.
0:35.0	Today I want to talk to you about the mathematics of love.
0:40.0	In TED Talks... Ted Talks and radio shows.
0:45.0	I'm Dr. Adam Rutherford.
0:48.0	And I'm Dr. Hannah Fry.
0:49.0	And you are going to send us your everyday mysteries.
0:52.0	And we are going to investigate them.
0:54.0	That's the curious cases of Rutherford and Fry on BBC Sounds.
0:58.0	I like it.
1:00.0	She's actually made maths fun.
1:04.0	Google Lee algebra.
1:06.0	Lee, what?
1:07.0	L-I-E. L-I-E.
1:08.0	L-I-E.
1:10.0	And string theory.
1:11.0	Understandable. Modern.
1:13.4	This is not how I expected my morning to go.
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