This is probably the most enjoyable book about maths ever written. From impossibly small pizza slices to computers built out of dominoes, unfathomable knots to multi-dimensional drinking straws, Matt Parker introduces the amazing, essential, riotous world of numbers that is all around us, absolutely everywhere.
Originally a maths teacher from Australia, Matt Parker now lives in Guildford in a house full of almost every retro video-game console ever made. He is fluent in binary and could write your name in a sequence of 0s and 1s in seconds.When he's not working as the Public Engagement in Mathematics Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, he'll be doing stand-up or converting photographs into Excel spreadsheets.
An unusual, in-depth but highly accessible popular-maths book by a
member of the London Mathematical Society who also has a sideline
in stand-up comedy
*Economist*
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*
Essential reading
*Observer*
Matt Parker is a lovely, funny, big, dork
*Ben Goldacre*
Shows off maths at its most playful and multifarious, ranging from
classics like knot theory and ruler-and-compass constructions to
more whimsical topics like the topology of beer logos and
error-correcting scarves
*Jordan Ellenberg, author of HOW NOT TO BE WRONG*
This is the best book on recreational mathematics since Martin
Gardner's My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles
*Library Journal*
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