The Visual Guide To Extra Dimensions: Visualizing The Fourth Dimension, Higher-Dimensional Polytopes, And Curved Hypersurfaces: Volume 1 - Brossura

Libro 1 di 4: A Fourth Dimension of Space

McMullen, Chris

 
9781438298924: The Visual Guide To Extra Dimensions: Visualizing The Fourth Dimension, Higher-Dimensional Polytopes, And Curved Hypersurfaces: Volume 1
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ISBN 10: 1438298927 ISBN 13: 9781438298924
Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2008

Sinossi

AUTHOR: Chris McMullen earned his Ph.D. in particle physics from Oklahoma State University. Dr. McMullen currently teaches physics at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. His background on the geometry and physics of a possible fourth dimension of space includes a half-dozen research papers on the prospects of discovering large extra dimensions at the Large Hadron Collider.

DESCRIPTION: This book takes you on a visual tour of a fourth dimension of space. It is much more visual and conceptual than algebraic, yet it is detailed and technical, with the intention of satisfying the needs of mathematically-minded readers familiar with the fundamentals of algebra, geometry, and graphing. Here is a sample of what you will find:

  • A fascinating tour of the second and lower dimensions, which will help to understand the fourth dimension by analogy.
  • A chapter dedicated toward imagining what it might be like to live in a hypothetical 4D hyperuniverse. This includes details like 4D wheels with axles, a 4D staircase, and a 4D room.
  • Pictures of flat 4D objects called polytopes, like the tesseract, pentachoron, and icositetrachoron. A unique graph of a hecatonicosachoron has 12 of its 120 bounding dodecahedra highlighted to help visualize its complicated structure.
  • In-depth discussion of the hypercube, including numerical patterns, rotations, cross sections, and perspective. Watch a tesseract unfold.
  • Visual intersections of 15 pairs of perpendicular planes and 6 pairs of orthogonal hyperplanes in 4D space.
  • Unique graphs of curved hypersurfaces in 4D space, like the glome, spherinder, cubinder, and hyperparaboloid.

PUZZLES: Several puzzles are included to challenge the reader to contemplate the fourth dimension. Answers are included at the back of the book.

AUDIENCE: This book is highly visual and very conceptual such that anyone with an appreciation for geometry may understand it, while at the same time including ample detail to also satisfy readers with a strong background in mathematics.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Chris McMullen earned his Ph.D. in particie physics with a thesis on the collider physics of extra dimensions. He has also published a half-dozen papers and taught winter courses on extra dimensions.

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Editore
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1438298927
ISBN 13 
9781438298924
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
166
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