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Originally a maths teacher from Australia, Matt Parker now lives in Godalming in a house full of almost every retro video-game console ever made. He is fluent in binary and could write your name in a sequence of noughts and ones in seconds. He loves doing maths and stand-up, often simultaneously. When he's not working as the Public Engagement in Mathematics Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, he's performing in sold-out live comedy shows, spreading his love of maths via TV and radio, or converting photographs into Excel spreadsheets. He is the author of Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension.An unusual, in-depth but highly accessible popular-maths book by a member of the London Mathematical Society who also has a sideline in stand-up comedy
- Books of the Year, Economist
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,
Essential reading
Observer
Matt Parker is a lovely, funny, big, dork
- Ben Goldacre,
Shows off maths at its most playful and multifarious, ranging from classics like knot theory and ruler-and-compass constructions to more whimsical topics like the topology of beer logos and error-correcting scarves
- Jordan Ellenberg, author of HOW NOT TO BE WRONG,
This is the best book on recreational mathematics since Martin Gardner's <i>My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles</i>
- Harold D. Shane, Mathematics Emeritus, Baruch Coll., CUNY, Library Journal