Funny Numbers for the Math Phobic

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 19, 2014

Matt Parker, stand-up comedian and mathematician, Guardian contributor and the author of Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician's Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), shares the fun of mathematics.

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