Surfing through hyperspace : understanding higher universes in six easy lessons / Clifford A. Pickover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pickover, Clifford A., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hyperspace.

Fourth dimension.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explains hyperspace and multidimensional geometries in an effort to help readers to manipulate, visualise, and think about the higher spatial dimensions that all serious physical theories since relativity have required.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Degrees of Freedom; 2. The Divinity of Higher Dimensions; 3. Satan and Perpendicular Worlds; 4. Hyperspheres and Tesseracts; 5. Mirror Worlds; 6. The Gods of Hyperspace; Concluding Remarks; Appendix A: Mind-Bending Four-Dimensional Puzzles; Appendix B: Higher Dimensions in Science Fiction; Appendix C: Banchoff Klein Bottle; Appendix D: Quaternions; Appendix E: Four-Dimensional Mazes; Appendix F: Smorgasbord for Computer Junkies; Appendix G: Evolution of Four-Dimensional Beings; Appendix H: Challenging Questions for Further Thought

Appendix I: Hyperspace TitlesIndex

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-232) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772984-3

1-280-47238-3

9786610472383

1-4237-3671-0

0-19-535155-X

1-60256-371-3

OCLC:

232157137