{"title":"Matt Parker","description":"Matt Parker is a stand-up comedian and a YouTuber with over one hundred million views. He is the author of the international bestseller Humble Pi and Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension. Matt is also frequently seen, heard, and read on the Science Channel, on BBC radio, and in The Guardian, in that order. He has previously held world records for both the Rubik's Cube and Space Invaders. In the pursuit of math, Matt has: flipped a coin 10,000 times, traveled to Antarctica, memorized π to hundreds of digits, and been bitten by a bullet ant in the Amazon rainforest. Matt has given math lectures at Cambridge University, Oxford University, Harvard University, and Lake Monger Primary School.","products":[{"product_id":"love-triangle-how-trigonometry-shapes-the-world-paperback","title":"Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn ode to triangles, the shape that makes our lives possible \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eLove Triangle\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375556133087,"sku":"9780593418116","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/1ScTrN9i5T9780593418116.webp?v=1789203726"},{"product_id":"humble-pi-when-math-goes-wrong-in-the-real-world-paperback","title":"Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICK\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, \u003ci\u003eHumble Pi\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eHow to Invent Everything\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMath 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375577956575,"sku":"9780593084694","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/GIWcQy8qME9780593084694.webp?v=1789203776"},{"product_id":"things-to-make-and-do-in-the-fourth-dimension-a-mathematicians-journey-through-narcissistic-numbers-optimal-dating-algorithms-at-least-two-kinds-o-paperback","title":"Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician's Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds o - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA revolutionary book from the stand-up mathematician that makes math fun again--now in paperback! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMath 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.\u003cbr\u003e In the absorbing and exhilarating \u003ci\u003eThings to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e Both playful and sophisticated, \u003ci\u003e Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376753967327,"sku":"9780374535636","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/jkH7AfAes39780374535636.webp?v=1789225251"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/matt-parker.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}