Higher Dimensions
Posted in Mathematics on October 24th, 2005 1 Comment »
In teaching multi-variable Calculus, it is often a challenge to get students to begin to think beyond the 3 spatial dimensions. To illustrate the challenge, I often draw a four dimensional cube on the board and explain the difficulty in visualizing hyper-spatial volumes:
4 Dimensional Hyper-cube
We can actually easily get up to 5 dimensions in visualizations [...]