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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 o

Contributor(s): Parker, Matt (Author)

ISBN: 9780374535636

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Pub Date: November 24, 2015

Dewey: 510

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Index, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.30" H x 8.20" L x 5.40" W ( 0.90 lbs) 480 pages

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Description: Originally published: London: Particular Books, 2014.

Brief description: 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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"Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension shows off math 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 to Not Be Wrong

"Matt Parker is some sort of unholy fusion of a prankster, wizard and brilliant nerd--maths is rarely this clever, funny and ever so slightly naughty." --Adam Rutherford, author of Creation

"This is the best book on recreational mathematics since Martin Gardner's My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles." --Library Journal

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