Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles. 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. 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.« Dec Feb » Search by Name Search for: Search By Tag 3d geometry 3D Printing 4th Dimension algebra arithmetic Art of Problem Solving bases binary calculus Catriona Shearer complex numbers computers construction contest math continued fractions counting Cut The Knot Dan Anderson David Radcliffe decimals Ed Frenkel Evelyn Lamb exponentials Fawn Nguyen Fibonacci Numbers Five Triangles Fractals fractions games geometry Geometry Revisited Grant Sanderson imaginary numbers infinite series infinity James Tanton Jim Propp Jordan Ellenberg Kate Nowak Keith Devlin Kelsey Houston-Edwards Laura Taalman learning math logarithms modeling MoMath Mr. Matt Parker Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematicians Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More Paperback Illustrated, 24 November 2015 by Matt Parker (Author) 914 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 14. Discover Book Depositorys huge selection of Matt Parker books online. 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.īoth 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. 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. 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. Stand-up mathematician and star of Festival of the Spoken Nerd, Matt Parker presents Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension - a.
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.
Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. A book from the stand-up mathematician that makes math fun again!
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