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LEADER: 02841cam 2200601Mi 4500
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008 141027s2014 enka b 000 0 eng
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100 1 $aParker, Matt.
245 10 $aThings to make and do in the fourth dimension /$cMatt Parker.
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300 $a455 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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520 $a"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"--Amazon.com.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $a0. The zeroth chapter -- 1. Can you digit? -- 2. Making shapes -- 3. Be there and be square -- 4. Shape shifting -- 5. Shapes now in 3D -- 6. Pack it up, pack it in -- 7. Prime time -- 8. Knot a problem -- 9. Just for graphs -- 10. The fourth dimension -- 11. The algorithm method -- 12. How to build a computer -- 13. Number mash-ups -- 14. Ridiculous shapes -- 15. Higher dimensions -- 16. Good data die hard -- 17. Ridiculous numbers -- 18. To infinity and beyond -- n+1. The subsequent chapter.
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