Timothy P. Chartier (born 1969)[1] is an American mathematician known for his expertise in sports analytics and bracketology,[2][3][4] for his popular mathematics books, and for the "mime-matics" shows combining mime and mathematics that he and his wife Tanya have staged.
[8] He has also studied mime, at the Centre du Silence in Colorado, at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre in California, and with Marcel Marceau.
[7] As well as his academic work, he is also a frequent consultant on sports analytics for ESPN, NASCAR, the National Basketball Association, and other groups.
[10] Chartier is the author of Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing (2014),[11] which won the Euler Book Prize in 2020,[12] and of When Life is Linear: From Computer Graphics to Bracketology (2015),[13] which won the Beckenbach Book Prize in 2017.
(2020) and the coauthor, with Anne Greenbaum, of Numerical Methods: Design, Analysis, and Computer Implementation of Algorithms (2012).