Wikipedia readers turned to Hannah Fry at 22x the usual rate

What this article is

Hannah Mary Fry is a British mathematician, author and broadcaster. She is the first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge. She was previously the president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and was a professor of the mathematics of cities at University College London.

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