[GET] Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

[StillStanding]

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 takes us on a grand tour, from four dimensional shapes, knot theory, the mysteries of prime numbers, optimization algorithms, and the math behind barcodes and iPhone screens to the different kinds of 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 entice us to take pleasure in mathematics at all levels. Parker invites us to relearn much of what baffled us in school and, this time, to be utterly enthralled by it.

Code:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/qklstchm9juhipu/

[rangers94]

Interesting share SS, thanks and reps given

[StillStanding]

re-up request

Code:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/vvq0vj6t2o43s37/

[sprawn]

StillStanding, thanks for the share, +5 reps :)

This reminds me of what Nikola Tesla would do, he designed/manufactured in his mind and then built it in our world, even improving designs in his mind before actually making them.

Like the Iron Man movies, less need to make something and improve it later. The whole process would be carried out in his mind. Beautiful.

I wonder if this would be useful if combined with Astral Projection, Edgar Cayce said the imaginative forces of the mind could be used like this.

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[discomix]

Thanks mate