Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
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- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2015
Summary
Stand-up mathematician and star of ‘Festival of the Spoken Nerd’, Matt Parker, takes us on a riotous journey through the infinite possibilities of numbers in our everyday lives.
This is the complete guide to exploring the fascinating world of maths you were never told about at school. Stand-up comedian and 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 an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141975863 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141975865 |
| Author: | Matt Parker |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 384g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 28mm |
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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 – Books of the Year * Economist *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 CREATIONEssential reading * Observer *Matt Parker is a lovely, funny, big, dork – Ben GoldacreShows off maths at its most playful and multifarious, ranging from classics like knot theory and ruler-and-compass constructions to more whimsical topics like the topology of beer logos and error-correcting scarves – Jordan Ellenberg, author of HOW NOT TO BE WRONGThis is the best book on recreational mathematics since Martin Gardner’s My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles – Harold D. Shane, Mathematics Emeritus, Baruch Coll., CUNY * Library Journal *
About The Author
Matt Parker
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.
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