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Things To Make And Do In The Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician's Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, At Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More

Things To Make And Do In The Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician's Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, At Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More

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Things To Make And Do In The Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician's Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, At Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More Hardback - 2014

by Parker, Matt

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New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2014. New/New.
A WILDLY ENTERTAINING TOUR THROUGH THE STRANGE, BEAUTIFUL, AND OFTEN HILARIOUS WORLD OF MODERN MATHEMATICS.

Matt Parker has become one of the most recognizable public ambassadors for mathematics, combining the rigor of a trained mathematician with the timing of a professional comedian. This first American edition transforms subjects that many readers found intimidating in school-prime numbers, geometry, infinity, algorithms, probability, and higher dimensions-into an engaging intellectual adventure accessible to general readers.

Rather than presenting mathematics as a sequence of formulas, Parker demonstrates how mathematical thinking shapes everything from computer science and engineering to puzzles, games, architecture, and everyday decision-making. His approachable style and humor make complex ideas understandable while preserving the genuine wonder that lies behind the discipline.

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES: Original publisher's boards in original dust jacket. Octavo. 9.25 inches tall, 453 pages. Illustrated throughout with diagrams, mathematical figures, charts, demonstrations, and photographs.

CONDITION: No flaws or blemishes noted. Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. Gift Quality. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE -
Parker's work occupies a particularly appealing place between popular science and serious mathematics. While many introductory mathematics books focus primarily on biography or history, Things To Make And Do In The Fourth Dimension invites readers to actively engage with mathematical ideas through demonstrations, thought experiments, and practical examples.


The result is a book equally attractive to students, educators, puzzle enthusiasts, STEM collectors, and readers seeking a deeper appreciation of the mathematical structures underlying modern life.

SUBJECTS: Number Theory; Geometry; Prime Numbers; Infinity; Algorithms; Mathematical Logic; Recreational Mathematics; Computing; Popular Science; Mathematics Education, Popular Mathematics; Popular Science; Recreational Mathematics; STEM Education.
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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.

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Matt Parker is a stand-up comedian and mathematician. He writes about math for The Guardian, has a math column in The Telegraph, is a regular panelist on Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage, has appeared in and worked on Five Greatest on the Discovery Channel, and has performed his math stand-up routines in front of audiences of thousands.

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