Four Dimensional Maths: Things to See and Hear in the Fourth Dimension - with Matt Parker

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as an enjoyable, accessible talk for building intuition about higher dimensions.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

The Royal Institution

Topic

four-dimensional geometry

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2022

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From the original HN conversations

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• I love Matt Parker's take on the fourth dimension: see for instance this one-hour long but very enjoyable talk for general audiences at the Royal Institution: [VIDEO] (Things to See and Hear in the Fourth Dimension) If you know German, then you might like this …

• For anybody whom might be interested in "what a 4D cube might look like..." [VIDEO] The entire video in mesmerizing -- one of the coolest party tricks I've learned is the double-twisted morbius strip dissection.

• I found this Matt Parker lecture provided some good tools for getting your head around the fact that extra dimensions really do let you go around things, not through: [VIDEO] (the whole thing is worth watching, but the bit about higher dimensional visualization starts there)