![]() ![]() ![]() Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Mathematics is the search for universal, not base-specific, truth. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension - Kindle edition by Parker, Matt. Mathematicians do not like things which work only in base-10 it is only because we have ten fingers that we find that system interesting at all. ![]() Because mathematicians like the puzzles which work on the pure number rather than the symbolic digit and the system we happen to be writing our numbers down in, there is a sense that, when a puzzle works only in one given base, there is something rather, well, 'secind class' about it. Each chapter is structured around activities and thought experiments: we are invited to make a calculator out of dominoes, find out why wrapping oranges in plastic wrap is a good way to learn about higher dimensions, and. A maths puzzle is not complete when you merely find an answer, a maths puzzle is complete when you've then tried to generalize it to other situations as well-and minds including Leonard Euler and Lord Kelvin have excelled in mathematics by displaying just this kind of curiosity. Starting with basic arithmetic and geometry, Things To Make and Do teaches us the math we never got to enjoy at school. Mathematicians constantly want to find solutions and patterns which apply to as many situations as possible, i.e. “This quest to take a problem and see what happens in different situations is called generalizing, and it is this force that drives mathematics forward. ![]()
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