Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
Book description
Stand-up mathematician and star of Festival of the Spoken Nerd, Matt Parker presents Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension -- a riotous journey through the possibilities of numbers, with audience participation
- Cut pizzas in new and fairer ways!
- Fit a 2p coin through an impossibly…
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1 author picked Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I have always liked the classical geometry of triangles and circles, but Matt Parker's book helped me go way beyond that and broaden my whole outlook. And the attractively hand-drawn diagrams and zany humour just added to the whole experience. After all, how many maths authors do you know who decide to build a computer out of 10,000 dominoes, just to calculate 6 + 4?
From David's list on mathematics for the general reader.
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