Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
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Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

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‘Maths at its most playful and multifarious’ Jordan EllenbergMatt Parker, author of the No.1 bestseller Humble Pi, takes us on a riotous journey through the possibilities of numbers Mathematician Matt Parker uses bizarre Klein Bottles, unimaginably small pizza slices, knots no one can untie and computers built from dominoes to reveal some of the most exotic and fascinating ideas in mathematics. Starting with simple numbers and algebra, this book goes on to deal with inconceivably big numbers in more dimensions than you ever knew existed. And always with something for you to make or do along the way. ‘The book oozes with sheer joy’ New Scientist’Matt Parker is some sort of unholy fusion of a prankster, wizard and brilliant nerd – clever, funny and ever so slightly naughty’ Adam Rutherford, author of Creation’Matt Parker never got the memo about maths being boring … he seeks to reconnect us to the numbers around us’ Simon Usborne, Independent’Essential reading’ Observer

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Weight 0.383 kg
Dimensions 2.8 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
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Pages

480
Publisher

Year Published

2015-7-2
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0141975865
About The Author

Originally a maths teacher from Australia, Matt Parker now lives in Godalming in a house full of almost every retro video-game console ever made. He is fluent in binary and could write your name in a sequence of noughts and ones in seconds. He loves doing maths and stand-up, often simultaneously. When he's not working as the Public Engagement in Mathematics Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, he's performing in sold-out live comedy shows, spreading his love of maths via TV and radio, or converting photographs into Excel spreadsheets. He is the author of Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension.

An unusual, in-depth but highly accessible popular-maths book by a member of the London Mathematical Society who also has a sideline in stand-up comedy
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Matt Parker is some sort of unholy fusion of a prankster, wizard and brilliant nerd – clever, funny and ever so slightly naughty

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