Matt Parker
Season 5, Episode 3Stand Up Mathematician and author of Things To Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension, Matt Parker joins Robin and Josie this week. They talk about all things numbers. Best books on maths, books about mathematicians, puzzle books and plenty more. And Matt will be joining Robin, Josie and others for our live tour of Australia and New Zealand in March/April. Details at cosmicshambleslive.com
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Reading List
Matt recommends:
Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
Fermat’s Last Theorem by Simon Singh
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman
The work of Martin Gardner
The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner
Big Data: Does Size Matter? by Timandra Harkness
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by RW Hamming
The work of Kurt Gödel
On Computable Numbers with Applications to the Entscheidung-Problem by Alan Turing
The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
You by Austin Grossman
Josie recommends:
The work of Decartes
The work of Jean Rhys
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide by Al Alvarez
The work of Sylvia Plath
Pondlife: A Swimmer’s Journal by Al Alvarez
La Bête humaine by Émile Zola
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
The Wicked and the Divine by Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Robin recommends:
The Pitchfork Disney by Philip Ridley
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos H. Papadimitriou
Principia Mathematica by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead
Dead Funny: Encore edited by Robin Ince and Johnny Mains
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Tim Goes to Sea series by Edward Ardizzone
The Local by Edward Ardizzone
The Midnight Bell by Patrick Hamilton
L’Assommoir by Émile Zola
The Living Stones: Cornwall by Ithell Colquhoun

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