Hinton sets out to make higher space thinkable without heavy mathematics. He reasons by analogy from creatures confined to a plane, traces the history of four-dimensional ideas, weighs evidence for a higher world, applies the notion to Kant’s theory of experience, and finally guides the reader through building a mental model of a four-dimensional figure from coloured cubes.
A strange and absorbing work by the mathematician who gave us the tesseract, for anyone curious how geometry shades into philosophy. Download the free EPUB.