In 2012, he gathered 10,000 dominoes and some friends and built a giant circuit in the main hall of the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. For some people, it would be enough to know that you can build a computer out of dominoes. Parker’s commitment to wacky ideas and demonstrations really makes the book sparkle. Parker, who is both a mathematician and a stand-up comedian, isn’t trying to convince you that math is useful, but that it’s fun. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker is the third kind of book.
Sometimes you want to learn a "new" multiplication algorithm from a general interest math book, sometimes you want to learn why voting systems are doomed to imperfection, and sometimes you just want to play with numbers, patterns, and pictures.
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