Surfing through hyperspace : understanding higher universes in six easy lessons /
Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, Surfing Through Hyperspace, you need not be a mathematician or an astrophysicist to explore the all-but-u...
| Основен автор: | Pickover, Clifford A. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=144017 |
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Print version::
Surfing through hyperspace. |
Съдържание:
- 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.