Hannah Fry: ‘I’ve become more optimistic as I’ve got older’

Saturday 21st October 2023

The mathematician on being a goody two shoes, surviving cancer and stopping to smell the roses

My whole life I’ve been a goody two shoes. I never got a detention. I’ve never broken the law. When I was in my 20s, while everyone else was off having a wild time, I was at home reading maths textbooks.

I inherited my work ethic from my mum. She left school at 16 and was very insistent on education. My two sisters and I didn’t get the opportunity to socialise the way our classmates did. We were isolated, competitive and we developed an unhealthy respect for authority.

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