Go back

Hannah Fry is latest president of maths society

 Image: Sebastiaan ter Burg [CC BY 2.0], via Flickr

UCL professor, TV presenter and self-described “all-round badass” will lead Institute of Mathematics

The UK’s learned society for mathematicians has revealed its next president will be TV presenter and University College London professor Hannah Fry.

Self-described as a “mathematician, science presenter and all-round badass”, Fry is well-known for her appearances on BBC programmes which have seen her explain the maths behind the Covid-19 pandemic to audiences and guest present the quiz show Have I Got News For You.

This article on Research Professional News is only available to Research Professional or Pivot-RP users.

Research Professional users can log in and view the article via this link

Pivot-RP users can log in and view the article via this link.