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Beyond the Third Dimension: Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Higher Dimensions
(1990)
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Author: Thomas F. Banchoff
Publisher: Scientific American Library
Pages: 210
Series: Scientific American Library
ISBN: 9780716750253
Genre: Mathematics: Geometry & Cosmology
Format: Hardcover

Living in a world of three dimensional space makes it hard for us to conceive fourth dimension and it gets even harder to visualize the fifth and higher dimension. Superstring theorists predict the existence of 10th and 26th dimensions in universe; hence it seems reasonable for many of us to understand how it would be like to be living in fourth dimension. Thomas Banchoff is one of the leaders in the study of higher dimension using computer graphics; he has illustrated fourth dimension using basic geometrical approach such as slicing the spatial dimension, observing the shadows of structures, comparing the folded and foldout versions of polytops and description of configuration of spaces. This book is useful for someone who appreciates geometry, but for a reader who likes to visualize the fourth dimension he/she may read Clifford Pickover's Surfing through Hyperspace, which does a better job in illustrating fourth dimension.