Things to make and do in the fourth dimension
By: Matt Parker
Publisher: Particular Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9781846148590; 9781846147647; 9780385680585; 9780385680592; 9781846147654
Subjects: Mathematics; Popular works; Humor; Matematik; Matematiska lekar
Description: "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 reveals how it is possible to climb all the way up to the topology and to four-dimensional shapes, and from there to infinity--and slightly beyond"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 0. The zeroth chapter; title: 1. Can you digit?; title: 2. Making shapes; title: 3. Be there and be square; title: 4. Shape shifting; title: 5. Shapes now in 3D; title: 6. Pack it up, pack it in; title: 7. Prime time; title: 8. Knot a problem; title: 9. Just for graphs; title: 10. The fourth dimension; title: 11. The algorithm method; title: 12. How to build a computer; title: 13. Number mash-ups; title: 14. Ridiculous shapes; title: 15. Higher dimensions; title: 16. Good data die hard; title: 17. Ridiculous numbers; title: 18. To infinity and beyond; title: n+1. The subsequent chapter.