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Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

by Matt Parker
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Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

Stand-up comedy meets mind-bending mathematical wonder

If math ever felt dry or intimidating, this book sounds like the one that changes your mind. Matt Parker brings real wit and infectious curiosity to big ideas, making strange concepts feel playful instead of painful. It feels like being led by the funniest teacher you never had, the kind who makes you suddenly realize math is far weirder and more delightful than school ever let on.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

by Matt Parker
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ISBN: 9780374535636
Authors: Matt Parker
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date of Publication: 2015-11-24
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, History, Philosophy, Personal Development
Related Topics: Popular Science, Physics, Mathematics, How To, Theory, Education
Goodreads rating: 4.16
(rated by 3394 readers)

Description

A book from the stand-up mathematician that makes math fun again! Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. Part of the problem may be the way the subject is taught, but it’s also true that we all, to a greater or lesser extent, find math difficult and counterintuitive. This counterintuitiveness is actually part of the point, argues Parker: the extraordinary thing about math is that it allows us to access logic and ideas beyond what our brains can instinctively do—through its logical tools we are able to reach beyond our innate abilities and grasp more and more abstract concepts. In the absorbing and exhilarating Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension, Parker sets out to convince his readers to revisit the very math that put them off the subject as fourteen-year-olds. Starting with the foundations of math familiar from school (numbers, geometry, and algebra), he reveals how it is possible to climb all the way up to the topology and to four-dimensional shapes, and from there to infinity—and slightly beyond. Both playful and sophisticated, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension is filled with captivating games and puzzles, a buffet of optional hands-on activities that entices us to take pleasure in math that is normally only available to those studying at a university level. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension invites us to re-learn much of what we missed in school and, this time, to be utterly enthralled by it.
 

Stand-up comedy meets mind-bending mathematical wonder

If math ever felt dry or intimidating, this book sounds like the one that changes your mind. Matt Parker brings real wit and infectious curiosity to big ideas, making strange concepts feel playful instead of painful. It feels like being led by the funniest teacher you never had, the kind who makes you suddenly realize math is far weirder and more delightful than school ever let on.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.