The Fourth Dimension

by Charles Howard Hinton

Overview

In an 1880 article entitled "What is the Fourth Dimension?", Hinton suggested that points moving around in three dimensions might be imagined as successive cross-sections of a static four-dimensional arrangement of lines passing through a three-dimensional plane, an idea that anticipated the notion of world lines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783985317943
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	03/09/2022
Series:	Classics To Go
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	187
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Charles Howard Hinton (1853 – 30 April 1907) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled Scientific Romances. He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension. He is known for coining the word "tesseract" and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions.