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Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 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.

About the Publisher

Particular Books

The Particular Books imprint was launched in 2009. This list is characterized by the particular, all-consuming passions of its unique authors for a whole range of subjects that fascinate many of us, such as music, numbers, French cooking, gardening, cycling, survival tactics, books, clothes and maps of remote islands.

Book information

ISBN: 9781846147647
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Particular Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 510
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 453
Weight: 644g
Height: 240mm
Width: 165mm
Spine width: 32mm