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She has 11,500 Instagram followers, a bestselling book and her TED talk went viral. Susie Mesure meets the mathematics sensation

There is a photo on Hannah Frys Twitter feed from June that tells you everything you need to know about one of the UKs hottest mathematical talents. She is sitting outside a caf, lost in David Spiegelhalters The Art of Statistics, a newborn snoozing on her chest and sunglasses clamped to her face.

So far, so maternity leave, except that Fry, a 35-year-old associate professor in the mathematics of cities at University College London, wasnt idly catching up on reading, but madly researching an essay The New Yorker had asked her to write when she was 41 weeks pregnant. It nearly killed me. Especially in those early days, when youre only getting two hours sleep at a time, she says. But I just cant turn

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