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A revolutionary book from the stand-up mathematician that makes math fun againnow in paperback!


Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. 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. 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 dothrough its logical tools we are able to reach beyond our innate abilities and grasp more and more abstract concepts.
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. Starting with the foundations of math familiar from school (numbers, geometry, and algebra), he takes us on a grand tour,

Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

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A revolutionary book from the stand-up mathematician that makes math fun againnow in paperback!Math is boring, says the mathematician and... Read more

    Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    Publication Date: 11/24/2015 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780374535636, 978-0374535636
    ISBN10: 0374535639

    Number of Pages: 480

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    A revolutionary book from the stand-up mathematician that makes math fun againnow in paperback!


    Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. 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. 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 dothrough its logical tools we are able to reach beyond our innate abilities and grasp more and more abstract concepts.
    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. Starting with the foundations of math familiar from school (numbers, geometry, and algebra), he takes us on a grand tour,

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