Kit Yates is an author, broadcaster and academic specialising in the role of mathematics in everyday life; a speaker who can explain scientific material in layman's language with wit as well as wisdom.

He is the author of three books, The Maths of Life and Death (a Sunday Times Science Book of the Year) and now How to Expect the Unexpected and You Don’t Know What You’re M ss ng.

Kit completed his PhD in mathematics at the University of Oxford and is now Professor of Mathematical Biology and Public Engagement at the University of Bath.

He is a prominent commentator on the role of mathematics/science in society writing regularly for the Guardian and the Independent and a range of other media outlets. He regularly appears on radio shows like the BBC’s More or Less, and Inside Science as well as on TV news shows and documentaries.