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Art Meets Mathematics in the Fourth Dimension - 9783319062532
Un libro in lingua di Lipscomb Stephen Leon edito da Springer Verlag, 2014
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To see objects that live in the fourth dimension we humans would need to add a fourth dimension to our three-dimensional vision. An example of such an object that lives in the fourth dimension is a hyper-sphere or “3-sphere.” The quest to imagine the elusive 3-sphere has deep historical roots: medieval poet Dante Alighieri used a 3-sphere to convey his allegorical vision of the Christian afterlife in his Divine Comedy. In 1917, Albert Einstein visualized the universe as a 3-sphere, describing this imagery as “the place where the reader’s imagination boggles. Nobody can imagine this thing.” Over time, however, understanding of the concept of a dimension evolved. By 2003, a researcher had successfully rendered into human vision the structure of a 4-web (think of an ever increasingly-dense spider’s web). In this text, Stephen Lipscomb takes his innovative dimension theory research a step further, using the 4-web to reveal a new partial image of a 3-sphere. Illustrations support the reader’s understanding of the mathematics behind this process. Lipscomb describes a computer program that can produce partial images of a 3-sphere and suggests methods of discerning other fourth-dimensional objects that may serve as the basis for future artwork.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Art Meets Mathematics in the Fourth Dimension
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Lipscomb Stephen Leon
- Editore: Springer Verlag
- Collana: Springer Verlag (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 03 Novembre '14
- Genere: MATHEMATICS
- Pagine: 184
- Dimensioni mm: 254 x 177 x 12
- ISBN-10: 3319062530
- EAN-13: 9783319062532