![]() ![]() Parker explains how a square becomes a cube in 3-D and a hypercube (a tesseract) in four dimensions or a doughnut (a torus) becomes an object called a Klein bottle. But his approach has the acceleration of a Ferrari, so readers are quickly racing into higher dimensional space. Parker begins with the easier elements like number systems, primes and the polygons of Euclidean geometry. Guardian and Telegraph writer and comedian Parker aims “to show people all the fun bits of mathematics.”įor starters, take out paper and pencil, compass, straight edge, maybe a balloon or a bag of oranges, because the author will challenge you to tackle puzzles, whether it’s cutting a pizza in equal slices so some pieces never touch the center or passing a quarter through a nickel-size hole. ![]()
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