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Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

480 pages · 2015 · Rating 4.6

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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.

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