![]() ![]() In 2012, he gathered 10,000 dominoes and some friends and built a giant circuit in the main hall of the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. For some people, it would be enough to know that you can build a computer out of dominoes. ![]() Parker’s commitment to wacky ideas and demonstrations really makes the book sparkle. Parker, who is both a mathematician and a stand-up comedian, isn’t trying to convince you that math is useful, but that it’s fun. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker is the third kind of book. ![]() Sometimes you want to learn a "new" multiplication algorithm from a general interest math book, sometimes you want to learn why voting systems are doomed to imperfection, and sometimes you just want to play with numbers, patterns, and pictures. ![]()
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