![]() ![]() ![]() With an engaging Australian accent and an infectious smile, this stand-up comedian and mathematician discusses esoteric mathematical facts with an emphasis on fun. ![]() His book, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension, operates as a tour bus for readers who want to learn more about a wide variety of mathematical topics and how math can be fun.įor lovers of the YouTube channel Numberphile, Parker is a familiar figure. Mathematics is a rapidly evolving field, and writers such as Matt Parker are necessary to remind society of that truth. ![]() There is a story, dating to well before the use of electricity in our daily lives, of Queen Victoria asking the scientist Faraday (or Maxwell, depending on which version of the story you believe), “What good is electricity?” He replied, “What good is a baby?” Without writers communicating the abstract results of working mathematicians in a way that is digestible by the everyday reader, the default mode is to believe mathematics is unimportant and nothing good comes from it.īut this assumption is not true. ![]()
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