Surfing Through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons - Couverture souple

Pickover, Clifford A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195142411 ISBN 13 : 9780195142419

Editeur : Oxford University Press USA, 1999

Synopsis

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-fathomable concepts of hyperspace and higher-dimensional geometry.
No subject in mathematics has intrigued both children and adults as much as the idea of a fourth dimension. Philosophers and parapsychologists have meditated on this mysterious space that no-one can point to but may be all around us. Yet this extra dimension has a very real, practical value to mathematicians and physicists who use it everyday in their calculations. In the tradition of Flatland, and with an infectious enthusiasm, Clifford Pickover tackles the problems inherent in our 3-D brains trying to visualize a 4-D world, muses on the religious implications of the existence of higher-dimensional consciousness, and urges all curious readers to venture into 'the unexplored territory lying beyond the prison of the obvious'. Pickover alternates sections that explain the science of hyperspace with sections that dramatize mind-expanding concepts through a fictional dialogue between two futuristic FBI agents who dabble in fourth dimension as a matter of national security. This highly accessible and entertaining approach turns an intimidating subject into a scientific game open to all dreamers.
Surfing Through Hyperspace concludes with a number of puzzles, computer experiments and formulas for further exploration, inviting readers to extend their minds across this inexhaustibly intriguing scientific terrain.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Clifford A. Pickover is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre and is the author of many books, including Strange Brains and Genius and Time: A Traveller's Guide. He lives in Yorktown Heights, New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press USA
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195142411
• ISBN 13: 9780195142419
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 268
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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