- Mathematics, Mathematical recreations, Humor, Popular works
A mathematician and comedian offers games, puzzles, and hands-on activities to help those with a fear of math understand and enjoy the logical tools and abstract concepts of the subject normally only accessible at college-level study.
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Warm, contemporary, spare and resolved.
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Matt Parker
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 468
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780374275655
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Matthew Thomas Parker is an Australian recreational mathematician, author, comedian, YouTube personality and science communicator based in the United Kingdom. *--Wikipedia* *Photo Attribution:* Your Funny uncle, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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