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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pickover, Clifford A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Temas:
Cosmology.
Hyperspace.
Fourth dimension.
Science > Philosophy.
Mathematics > Philosophy.
Cosmologie.
Hyperespace.
Quatrième dimension.
Mathématiques > Philosophie.
cosmology.
SCIENCE > Cosmology.
Kosmologie.
Wetenschapsfilosofie.
Science fiction.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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