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| + | '''''Tesseract''''' was coined by mathematician Charles Howard Hinton in 1888, to create a visual explanation for the existence of the fourth dimension — time. Tesseracts have featured in a number of [[science fiction]] classics, most notably [[Madeleine L'Engle]]’s ''A Wrinkle in Time'' (1962) and [[Robert A. Heinlein]]’s “—And He Built a Crooked House—” (1941). | ||
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A solid of four spacial dimensions. Its characteristics, as the number of sides, edges, etc, are easily worked out by analogy with the generation of a cuboid by a plane. Below are shown two common picturizations of tesseract cubes, with the analogous ways of drawing 3-d cubes: | A solid of four spacial dimensions. Its characteristics, as the number of sides, edges, etc, are easily worked out by analogy with the generation of a cuboid by a plane. Below are shown two common picturizations of tesseract cubes, with the analogous ways of drawing 3-d cubes: | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:45, 26 November 2020
(For other tesseracts, see Tesseract (Disambiguation).)
Tesseract was coined by mathematician Charles Howard Hinton in 1888, to create a visual explanation for the existence of the fourth dimension — time. Tesseracts have featured in a number of science fiction classics, most notably Madeleine L'Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time (1962) and Robert A. Heinlein’s “—And He Built a Crooked House—” (1941).
| From Fancyclopedia 1, ca. 1944 |
| A solid of four spacial dimensions. Its characteristics, as the number of sides, edges, etc, are easily worked out by analogy with the generation of a cuboid by a plane. Below are shown two common picturizations of tesseract cubes, with the analogous ways of drawing 3-d cubes: |
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