| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-236) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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-unfathomable concepts of hyperspace and higher-dimensional geometry. No subject in mathematics has intrigued both children and adults as much as the idea of a fourth dimension. Philosophers and parapsychologists have meditated on this mysterious space that no one can point to but may be all around us. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cosmology.
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Cosmology. |
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Hyperspace.
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Hyperspace. |
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Fourth dimension.
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Fourth dimension. |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
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Mathematics -- Philosophy.
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Mathematics -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pickover, Clifford A. Surfing through hyperspace. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 9780195130065 (DLC) 98048660 (OCoLC)40163565 |
| ISBN |
1602563713 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9781602563711 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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019535155X |
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9780195351552 |
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9780195130065 (alkaline paper) |
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0195130065 (alkaline paper) |
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1423736710 (electronic book) |
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9781423736714 (electronic book) |
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1280472383 |
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9781280472381 |
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0195130065 (alkaline paper) |
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