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 - Couverture rigide

Parker, Matt

 
9780374275655: 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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ISBN 10 : 0374275653 ISBN 13 : 9780374275655
Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2014

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

Matt Parker is some sort of unholy fusion of a prankster, wizard and brilliant nerd - clever, funny and ever so slightly naughty (Adam Rutherford, author of CREATION)

Essential reading (Observer)

Matt Parker is a lovely, funny, big, dork (Ben Goldacre)

Shows off maths at its most playful and multifarious, ranging from classics like knot theory and ruler-and-compass constructions to more whimsical topics like the topology of beer logos and error-correcting scarves (Jordan Ellenberg, author of HOW NOT TO BE WRONG)

This is the best book on recreational mathematics since Martin Gardner's My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Harold D. Shane, Mathematics Emeritus, Baruch Coll., CUNY Library Journal)

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Éditeur
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0374275653
ISBN 13 
9780374275655
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
453
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780374535636: 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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ISBN 10 :  0374535639 ISBN 13 :  9780374535636
Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015
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