Things to make and do in the fourth dimension: [a journey through narcissistic numbers, optimal dating algorithms, at least two different kinds of infinity and more]
A mathematician and comedian offers games, puzzles, and hands-on activities to help those with a fear of math understand and enjoy the logical tools and abstract concepts of the subject normally only accessible at college-level study... "Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt...
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| Zusammenfassung: | A mathematician and comedian offers games, puzzles, and hands-on activities to help those with a fear of math understand and enjoy the logical tools and abstract concepts of the subject normally only accessible at college-level study... "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 do...through 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 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. 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 entices us to take pleasure in math that is normally only available to those studying at a university level. 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." .. |
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Titel: Things to make and do in the fourth dimension
Autor: Parker, Matt
Jahr: 2014
Contents O The Zeroth Chapter 0 I Can You Digit? 7 2 Making Shapes 2 7 3 Be There and be Square 47 4 Shape Shifting 64 5 Shapes: Now in 3D 87 6 Pack It Up, Pack It In 109 7 Prime Time 130 8 Knot a Problem 155 9 Just for Graphs 175 IO The Fourth Dimension 201 11 The Algorithm Method 224 12 How to Build a Computer 251 U Number Mash-ups 275 14 Ridiculous Shapes 306 i 5 Higher Dimensions 325 i6 Good Data Die Hard 346 17 Ridiculous Numbers 369 18 To Infinity and Beyond 399 n 4 -1 The Subsequent Chapter 420 The Answers at the Back of the Book 425 Text and Image Credits 449 Acknowledgements 451 About the author 45 5 |
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