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'Maths at its most playful and multifarious' Jordan EllenbergMatt Parker, author of the No.1 bestseller Humble Pi, takes us on a riotous journey through the possibilities of numbers Mathematician Matt Parker uses bizarre Klein Bottles, unimaginably small pizza slices, knots no one can untie and computers built from dominoes to reveal some of the most exotic and fascinating ideas in mathematics. Starting with simple numbers and algebra, this book goes on to deal with inconceivably big numbers in more dimensions than you ever knew existed. And always with something for you to make or do along the way. 'The book oozes with sheer joy' New Scientist'Matt Parker is some sort of unholy fusion of a prankster, wizard and brilliant nerd - clever, funny and ever so slightly naughty' Adam Rutherford, author of Creation'Matt Parker never got the memo about maths being boring ... he seeks to reconnect us to the numbers around us' Simon Usborne, Independent'Essential reading' Observer

What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? How do billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? How does a building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world. As Matt Parker shows us, our modern lives are built on maths: computer programmes, finance, engineering. And most of the time this maths works quietly behind the scenes, until ... it doesn't. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near-misses and mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman empire and a hapless Olympic shooting team, Matt Parker shows us the bizarre ways maths trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. This book shows how, by making maths our friend, we can learn from its pitfalls. It also contains puzzles, challenges, geometric socks, jokes about binary code and three deliberate mistakes. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.

Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble PiWhy can no two people ever see the same rainbow? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? Why does the wake behind a duck always form an angle of exactly 39 degrees? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these questions can be found in the triangle.In Love Triangle, stand-up comedian, ex-maths teacher and Sunday Times number one bestselling author Matt Parker is on a mission to prove why we should all show a lot more love for triangles, along with the useful trigonometry and geometry they enable. To make his point, he uses triangles to create his own digital avatar, survive a harrowing motorcycle ride, cut a sandwich into three equal parts, and measure tall buildings while wearing silly shoes. But soon these hare-brained experiments begin to reveal a genuinely important truth: triangles are the hidden pattern beneath the surface of the contemporary world, used in everything from GPS to CGI via Spotify streaming, the play button and your best mate’s triangle tattoo.Join Matt Parker as he demonstrates why there’s more to triangles than Pythagoras and SOHCAHTOA. Triangles are everything and everything is triangles.

Learn about the most important mathematical ideas, theorems, and movements in The Maths Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Maths in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Maths Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Maths, with:- More than 85 ideas and events key to the development of mathematics- Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts- A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout- Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understandingThe Maths Book is a captivating introduction to the world's most famous theorems, mathematicians and movements, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Charting the development of maths around the world from Babylon to Bletchley Park, this book explains how maths help us understand everything from patterns in nature to artificial intelligence.Your Maths Questions, Simply ExplainedWhat is an imaginary number? Can two parallel lines ever meet? How can maths help us predict the future? This engaging overview explores answers to big questions like these and how they contribute to our understanding of maths. If you thought it was difficult to learn about topics like algebra and statistics, The Maths Book presents key information in an easy to follow layout. Learn about the history of maths, from ancient ideas such as magic squares and the abacus to modern cryptography, fractals, and the final proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.The Big Ideas SeriesWith millions of copies sold worldwide, The Maths Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.

A #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERExplore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble PiWhy can no two people ever see the same rainbow? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? Why does the wake behind a duck always form an angle of exactly 39 degrees? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these questions can be found in the triangle.In Love Triangle, stand-up comedian, ex-maths teacher and Sunday Times number one bestselling author Matt Parker is on a mission to prove why we should all show a lot more love for triangles, along with the useful trigonometry and geometry they enable. To make his point, he uses triangles to create his own digital avatar, survive a harrowing motorcycle ride, cut a sandwich into three equal parts, and measure tall buildings while wearing silly shoes. But soon these hare-brained experiments begin to reveal a genuinely important truth: triangles are the hidden pattern beneath the surface of the contemporary world, used in everything from GPS to CGI via Spotify streaming, the play button and your best mate’s triangle tattoo.Join Matt Parker as he demonstrates why there’s more to triangles than Pythagoras and SOHCAHTOA. Triangles are everything and everything is triangles.

Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and no. 1 bestselling author of Humble Pi Why do mobile phones work when you're on a train? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these questions can be found in the triangle. Humans have been using triangles for thousands of years to build structures, measure the earth, make music, paint vanishing points, pot snooker balls and much, much more. But trigonometry is not a thing of the past - triangles underpin all of modern data technology. When someone Snapchats a photo, the light travels into the camera as electromagnetic sine waves, Fourier analysis compresses the image and then trigonometry is used to send the data to someone else's phone; when you listen to a track on Spotify, triangles remove the sounds which a human ear can't perceive and re-assemble the song so that it's small enough to stream. Triangles are the hidden pattern beneath the surface of the contemporary world. Join Matt Parker, stand-up comedian and author of the first ever maths book to be a number one bestseller, as he uncovers the secrets of trigonometry and shares extraordinary stories about the mathematicians, philosophers and engineers who dared to take triangles seriously.

A revolutionary book from the stand-up mathematician that makes math fun again--now in paperback 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.

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICK The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, "When am I ever going to use this in the real world?" "Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very readable guide to some of humanity's all-time greatest miscalculations--that also gives you permission to feel a little better about some of your own mistakes." --Ryan North, author of How to Invent Everything Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time this math works quietly behind the scenes . . . until it doesn't. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Math is easy to ignore until a misplaced decimal point upends the stock market, a unit conversion error causes a plane to crash, or someone divides by zero and stalls a battleship in the middle of the ocean. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the bizarre ways math trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An ode to triangles, the shape that makes our lives possible Trigonometry is perhaps the most essential concept humans have ever devised. The simple yet versatile triangle allows us to record music, map the world, launch rockets into space, and be slightly less bad at pool. Triangles underpin our day-to-day lives and civilization as we know it. In Love Triangle, Matt Parker argues we should all show a lot more love for triangles, along with all the useful trigonometry and geometry they enable. To prove his point, he uses triangles to create his own digital avatar, survive a harrowing motorcycle ride, cut a sandwich, fall in love, measure tall buildings in a few awkward bounds, and make some unusual art. Along the way, he tells extraordinary and entertaining stories of the mathematicians, engineers, and philosophers--starting with Pythagoras--who dared to take triangles seriously. This is the guide you should have had in high school--a lively and definitive answer to "Why do I need to learn about trigonometry?" Parker reveals triangles as the hidden pattern beneath the surface of the contemporary world. Like love, triangles actually are all around. And in the air. And they're all you need.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An ode to triangles, the shape that makes our lives possible Trigonometry is perhaps the most essential concept humans have ever devised. The simple yet versatile triangle allows us to record music, map the world, launch rockets into space, and be slightly less bad at pool. Triangles underpin our day-to-day lives and civilization as we know it. In Love Triangle, Matt Parker argues we should all show a lot more love for triangles, along with all the useful trigonometry and geometry they enable. To prove his point, he uses triangles to create his own digital avatar, survive a harrowing motorcycle ride, cut a sandwich, fall in love, measure tall buildings in a few awkward bounds, and make some unusual art. Along the way, he tells extraordinary and entertaining stories of the mathematicians, engineers, and philosophers--starting with Pythagoras--who dared to take triangles seriously. This is the guide you should have had in high school--a lively and definitive answer to "Why do I need to learn about trigonometry?" Parker reveals triangles as the hidden pattern beneath the surface of the contemporary world. Like love, triangles actually are all around. And in the air. And they're all you need.

Sign a Listing today. Here's the simple protocol.A Top Real Estate Book (FitSmallBusiness.com), 1-Year Plus Top 20 Real Estate Sales (Amazon), Author recent contributions to Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, National Association of Realtors, Dwell, Stylecaster, Zillow, Trulia, Boston Globe, The Street, and more."I wish I had this book when I started."- Mario Jannatpour, Top-Selling Author, The Honest Real Estate Agent"The Real Estate Sales Secret by Matt Parker is an excellent book on mindset as it relates to real estate and getting listings. I wish I had this book when I started ten years ago Anyone who follows Matt's practical advice will get more listings, priced better, and sold quicker."-Nick Krautter, Top-Selling Author, The Golden HandoffThis is a simple, succinct, motivational publication designed to allow your immediate success with regard to signing listings. It easily, and quickly, educates proven seller interaction protocol that leads to sign listings. If you have a seller to sign today, or in the near future, this publication will efficiently both boost your confidence in a simple process, and illuminate the most vital seller tactics used by top listing agents.This book is not a lengthy manual populated with a comprehensive business plan to execute over years. It is a practical, honest instigator of what you need to do now to sign an upcoming listing. It is a set of discrete technical tactics, written motivationally, written in the vain of The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino...Good luck

As featured by National Association of Realtors, The Plain Dealer, Blog Talk Radio, OM Times Radio, Author recent contributions to Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, National Association of Realtors, Dwell, Stylecaster, Zillow, Trulia, Boston Globe, The Street, and more.Buying a new home?"...it's a must-read for anyone weighing a rent or buy decision, anyone looking for their first home, and anyone looking to move to another home."Dave, Seattle "I have purchased three homes in my life, I wish I had this book to help me with those decisions."Jim, Richmond Worried you will make the right choice?You will be surprised to find out what the latest statistics from the National Association of Realtors, Gallup, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and multiple studies tell us about modern home buyer happiness. In this brand new book, discover what unmentioned small choices you make have huge, meaningful impacts on not only your financial future, but also your fitness, health, relationships, and professional life. Modern home ownership data reveals many things you never thought of Learn: -One feature in a given neighborhood encourages fitness up to 20 percent greater than others.-One item on your street will make your children significantly safer, particularly from automobile accidents.-A particular condition you may practice in your home makes many women chronically stressed.-One trait of your neighbor plays a large part in whether or not you will divorce.-One decision when signing your loan paperwork can cost you $100,000 or more.Enjoy Real Estate Smart

This is the COLOR version.As featured by National Association of Realtors, The Plain Dealer, Blog Talk Radio, OM Times Radio, Author recent contributions to Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, National Association of Realtors, Dwell, Stylecaster, Zillow, Trulia, Boston Globe, The Street, and more.Buying a new home?"...it's a must-read for anyone weighing a rent or buy decision, anyone looking for their first home, and anyone looking to move to another home."Dave, Seattle "I have purchased three homes in my life, I wish I had this book to help me with those decisions."Jim, Richmond Worried you will make the right choice?You will be surprised to find out what the latest statistics from the National Association of Realtors, Gallup, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and multiple studies tell us about modern home buyer happiness. In this brand new book, discover what unmentioned small choices you make have huge, meaningful impacts on not only your financial future, but also your fitness, health, relationships, and professional life. Modern home ownership data reveals many things you never thought of Learn: -One feature in a given neighborhood encourages fitness up to 20 percent greater than others.-One item on your street will make your children significantly safer, particularly from automobile accidents.-A particular condition you may practice in your home makes many women chronically stressed.-One trait of your neighbor plays a large part in whether or not you will divorce.-One decision when signing your loan paperwork can cost you $100,000 or more.Enjoy Real Estate Smart

After having several children, parents often feel well-equipped to take on the challenges of another child. When Matt and Tammy Parker decided to add a child to their family, they had little idea of the blessings and struggles God had in store for them. The Crucible's Fire paints a picture of God's steadfast love through trials as he holds one family in the loving and protective crucible of his faithfulness. Readers will learn: The raw emotion of unexpected hardship How to rely on God for strength The beauty of God's faithfulness when it seems all hope is lost How to trust in God through their own dark night of the soul The sanctification that comes only through the refining fire of trials Strengthen your own trust in God's refining faithfulness as you join this family through the joys and pains of raising a special needs child.

This efficient and streamlined course was designed for students but is useful for new believers as well as it helps lay the necessary FOUNDATIONS for a fruitful walk with Jesus. Lesson outlines, small group discussion questions, and the included prayer pages make implementation simple and easy. Visit us at www.thecruciblesfire.org for more information on the FOUNDATIONS series of discipleship studies and subscribe to our blog for updated information on new study releases.

This efficient and streamlined course was designed for students but is useful for new believers as well as it helps lay the necessary FOUNDATIONS for a fruitful walk with Jesus. Lesson outlines, small group discussion questions, and the included prayer pages make implementation simple and easy. Visit us at www.thecruciblesfire.org for more information on the FOUNDATIONS series of discipleship studies and subscribe to our blog for updated information on new study releases.

This efficient and streamlined course was designed for students but is useful for new believers as well as it helps lay the necessary FOUNDATIONS for a fruitful walk with Jesus. Lesson outlines, small group discussion questions, and the included prayer pages make implementation simple and easy. Visit us at www.thecruciblesfire.org for more information on the FOUNDATIONS series of discipleship studies and subscribe to our blog for updated information on new study releases.

This efficient and streamlined course was designed for students but is also useful for new believers as it helps lay the necessary FOUNDATIONS for a fruitful walk with Jesus. Lesson outlines, small group discussion questions, and the included prayer pages make implementation simple and easy. Subscribe to our blog at www.thecruciblesfire.org to stay up to date on the FOUNDATIONS series and updated information on new study releases.