Full name: 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

Author: Matt Parker Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, Humor Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781846147647 9780374535636 0374535639

- Cut pizzas in new and fairer ways! - Fit a 2p coin through an impossibly small hole! - Make a perfect regular pentagon by knotting a piece of paper! - Tie your shoes faster than ever before, saving literally seconds of your life! - Use those extra seconds to contemplate the diminishing returns of an exclamation-point at the end of every bullet-point! - Make a working computer out of dominoes! Maths is a game. This book can be cut, drawn in, folded into shapes and will even take you to the fourth dimension. So join stand-up mathematician Matt Parker on a journey through narcissistic numbers, optimal dating algorithms, at least two different kinds of infinity and more. Similar books: The Grapes of Math by Alex Bellos Math Doesn't Suck by Danica McKellar Kiss My Math by Danica McKellar Fractals, Googols, and Other Mathematical Tales by Theoni Pappas Keys to Infinity by Clifford A. Pickover Murderous Maths by Kjartan Poskitt Letters to a Young Mathematician by Ian Stewart The Art of the Infinite by Robert Kaplan How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg Four Colors Suffice by Robin Wilson The Joy of x by Steven Strogatz How to Cut a Cake by Ian Stewart An Introduction to Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh The Mathematical Universe by William Dunham Humble Pi by Matt Parker What If? by Randall Munroe Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe Gulp by Mary Roach Why Is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy