Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker

'Matt Parker never got the memo about maths being boring. '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 'The book oozes with sheer joy' New Scientist

And always with something for you to make or do along the way. Starting with simple numbers and algebra, this book goes on to deal with inconceivably big numbers in more dimensions than you ever knew existed. Mathematician Matt Parker uses bizarre Klein Bottles, unimaginably small pizza slices, knots no one can untie and computers built from dominoes to reveal some of the most exotic and fascinating ideas in mathematics. 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. Part of the problem may be the way the subject is taught, but its also true that we all. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematicians Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infin. Matt Parker, author of the No.1 bestseller Humble Pi, takes us on a riotous journey through the possibilities of numbers Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. 'Maths at its most playful and multifarious' Jordan Ellenberg

Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker