Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

Math Series

Author: Matt Parker

Book 1 in the Math series

Pages: 480

Published: 2014

Age: 12+

  • 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.

Both playful and sophisticated, 'Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension' is filled with captivating games and puzzles, a buffet of optional hands-on activities that entice us to take pleasure in mathematics at all levels. Parker invites us to relearn math in a new way and, this time, to be utterly enthralled by it.

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...

About the Math Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension(2014)
  2. 2.Humble Pi(2019)

Reading age: 12+ years

This series explores the very math that strikes fear into most students. Using his stand-up, comedic humour and an obvious enjoyment in the intricacies of mathematics, Matt Parker reassuringly explains why math isn't natural for humans. He lightly traverses from the foundations of math and demystifying formulas, to stories of dramatic mathematical errors and its many interesting - and yes, useful! - applications in the real world.

Whether you're struggling to connect with mathematics, or enthralled by its challenges, the books in this series will not only prove that the door to math never closes, but that it can be thrown wide open.