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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Seeing in Four Dimensions

We see in three dimensions. Businesses operate in many more. Business intelligence packages can slice data so we can construct models that hint at the complexity of reality, but I think, still fail to make the transition we require to make sense of the world.

In the August Science News ... Mathematicians create videos that help in visualizing four-dimensional objects ... Mathematicians, freed in their imaginations from physical constraints, can conjure up descriptions of objects in many more dimensions than that. Points in a plane can be described with pairs of numbers, and points in space can be described with triples. Why not quadruples, or quintuples, or more? ...

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