The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained

Manning, Henry P., Editor

ISBN 10: 0486438899 / ISBN 13: 9780486438894

Verlag: Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 2004

Beschreibung

Einstein's concept of curved space-time requires an understanding of the fourth dimension. This collection includes 22 essays written for a contest sponsored by The Scientific America. Essays on topics such as how the fourth dimension may be studied; the relationship of non-Euclidean geometry to the fourth dimension; analogs to three-dimensional space; four dimensional absurdities and curiosities, measurement of forms in the fourth dimension and more. xii+251 pages, illustrations.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 11650

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained
• Verlag: Dover Publications, Mineola, NY
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0486438899
• ISBN-13: 9780486438894
• Einband: Softcover
• Auflage: Re-issue
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

Readable and informative, this collection of 22 essays employs a minimum of mathematics to explain how the fourth dimension may be studied, the relationship of non-Euclidean geometry to the fourth dimension, analogues to three-dimensional space, four-dimensional absurdities and curiosities, and the simpler properties of four-dimensional space. 1910 edition. 82 figures.