September 11, 2007
A poor representation of something greater.
Madeleine L'Engle, author of the classic "A Wrinkle in Time," passed away last thursday at the age of 88.
In that classic book, Madeleine L'Engle makes reference to one our most favorite theoretical mathematical shapes. The Tesseract. Also known as a hypercube, the tesseract is an imaginary projection of an ordinary 3d cube viewed in the 4th dimension. Sound complicated? It is.
In honor of her passing, physicist David Morgan explains the tesseract in this NPR video. (via boingboing)
And of course what would a post about the tesseract be without a little help from Carl Sagan. Actually, what would one of our posts be without mention of our most beloved of science persons. Here he explains the tesseract:
A talking boombox once told me that the tesseract was a gift from beyond the 4th dimension.
Posted by: cdubthebabyshooter at September 11, 2007 11:29 PMWow, I hadn't seen that particular Carl Sagan clip since watching it on PBS the first time around as a kid. Fantastic!
Posted by: Rob at September 13, 2007 10:33 PMi almost understand that!
Posted by: mary k at September 14, 2007 12:47 PMI spent a lot of time as a kid thinking about Tesseracts and other dimensions. Mostly because of all the people in your blog entry. I guess that explains a lot about me.
Posted by: Overdroid at September 23, 2007 5:01 AM
