Thinking In Four Dimensions

Author : Robin Grove,Catherine Joanna Stevens,Shirley McKechnie
Publisher : Academic Monographs
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Choreography
ISBN : 9780522851458

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Thinking in Four Dimensions by Robin Grove,Catherine Joanna Stevens,Shirley McKechnie Pdf

This collaboration between artists, choreographers, researchers, experimental psychologists and cognitive scientists investigates ways in which choreographers and performers make innovative, expressive movement, and audiences interpret what may well be a previously unmapped experience. Thinking in Four Dimensions is the first book to address the cognitive processes that underpin the creation of new works of contemporary dance. With case studies including data gathered from dance audiences as well as psychological analysis of new dance works, plus interviews with artists and video of performance pieces, Thinking in Four Dimensions is a unique package. Thinking in Four Dimensions is available in two formats. The e-book version incorporates text, full-colour images and video, which gives access to unique footage of choreographers and performers creating important new Australian dance works. The d-book is a print-on-demand version of the text with black and white images. This exciting collection of essays suggests that dance-making can be a form of imaginative enquiry - a thinking in time and space - both for those who perform it, and for those who watch.

Author : Rudy Rucker
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486798196

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The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality by Rudy Rucker Pdf

One of the most talented contemporary authors of cutting-edge math and science books conducts a fascinating tour of a higher reality, the fourth dimension. Includes problems, puzzles, and 200 drawings. "Informative and mind-dazzling." — Martin Gardner.

Author : Neville
Publisher : Lushena Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1639235728

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Out Of This World by Neville Pdf

This title shows the same intensity of thought and conviction which had made Neville famous amongst progressive thinkers. In this volume we see not only a profound religious feeling, but also a sense of the dignity and responsibility of human life. Our own feeling about the results of his experiments as a whole is that they are not just an addition to our existing knowledge, but require a revolution in our whole way of thinking about the world.

Author : H. S. M. Coxeter
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486141589

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Regular Polytopes by H. S. M. Coxeter Pdf

Foremost book available on polytopes, incorporating ancient Greek and most modern work. Discusses polygons, polyhedrons, and multi-dimensional polytopes. Definitions of symbols. Includes 8 tables plus many diagrams and examples. 1963 edition.

Author : Alexandru Scorpan
Publisher : American Mathematical Society
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781470468613

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The Wild World of 4-Manifolds by Alexandru Scorpan Pdf

What a wonderful book! I strongly recommend this book to anyone, especially graduate students, interested in getting a sense of 4-manifolds. —MAA Reviews The book gives an excellent overview of 4-manifolds, with many figures and historical notes. Graduate students, nonexperts, and experts alike will enjoy browsing through it. — Robion C. Kirby, University of California, Berkeley This book offers a panorama of the topology of simply connected smooth manifolds of dimension four. Dimension four is unlike any other dimension; it is large enough to have room for wild things to happen, but small enough so that there is no room to undo the wildness. For example, only manifolds of dimension four can exhibit infinitely many distinct smooth structures. Indeed, their topology remains the least understood today. To put things in context, the book starts with a survey of higher dimensions and of topological 4-manifolds. In the second part, the main invariant of a 4-manifold—the intersection form—and its interaction with the topology of the manifold are investigated. In the third part, as an important source of examples, complex surfaces are reviewed. In the final fourth part of the book, gauge theory is presented; this differential-geometric method has brought to light how unwieldy smooth 4-manifolds truly are, and while bringing new insights, has raised more questions than answers. The structure of the book is modular, organized into a main track of about two hundred pages, augmented by extensive notes at the end of each chapter, where many extra details, proofs and developments are presented. To help the reader, the text is peppered with over 250 illustrations and has an extensive index.

Author : Charles Fadel,Maya Bialik,Bernie Trilling
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 151864256X

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Four-dimensional Education by Charles Fadel,Maya Bialik,Bernie Trilling Pdf

The foundational reason for why we find it so difficult to rebuild school curricula around the needs of the modern world is that we lack an organizing framework that can help prioritise educational competencies, and systematically structure the conversation around what individuals should learn at various stages of their development. Four-dimensional education provides a clear and actionable first-of-its-kind organizing framework of competencies needed for this century. Its main innovation lies in not presenting yet another one-size-fits-all list of what individuals should learn, but in crisply defining the spaces in which educators, curriculum planners, policymakers and learners can establish what should be learned, in their context and for their future.

Author : Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003410748

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The FOUR DIMENSIONS OF PHILOSOPHY by Mortimer J. Adler Pdf

Adler's 53rd book explores philosophy--its relation to and difference from other disciplines, such as history, mathematics, empirical science, and even poetry--and acts as an extension of the author's classic works on the conditions that that make philosophy workable.

Author : Mark Blacklock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191071980

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The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension by Mark Blacklock Pdf

The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension describes the development and proliferation of the idea of higher dimensional space in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. An idea from mathematics that was appropriated by occultist thought, it emerged in the fin de siècle as a staple of genre fiction and influenced a number of important Modernist writers and artists. Providing a context for thinking of space in dimensional terms, the volume describes an active interplay between self-fashioning disciplines and a key moment in the popularisation of science. It offers new research into spiritualism and the Theosophical Society and studies a series of curious hybrid texts. Examining works by Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, H.G. Wells, Henry James, H. P. Lovecraft, and others, the volume explores how new theories of the possibilities of time and space influenced fiction writers of the period, and how literature shaped, and was in turn shaped by, the reconfiguration of imaginative space occasioned by the n-dimensional turn. A timely study of the interplay between philosophy, literature, culture, and mathematics, it offers a rich resource for readers interested in nineteenth century literature, Modernist studies, science fiction, and gothic scholarship.

Author : Eva Jablonka,Marion J. Lamb
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262525848

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Evolution in Four Dimensions, revised edition by Eva Jablonka,Marion J. Lamb Pdf

A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to reflect the most recent research. This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published in 2005, offering corrections, an updated bibliography, and a substantial new chapter. Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb's pioneering argument proposes that there is more to heredity than genes. They describe four “dimensions” in heredity—four inheritance systems that play a role in evolution: genetic, epigenetic (or non-DNA cellular transmission of traits), behavioral, and symbolic (transmission through language and other forms of symbolic communication). These systems, they argue, can all provide variations on which natural selection can act. Jablonka and Lamb present a richer, more complex view of evolution than that offered by the gene-based Modern Synthesis, arguing that induced and acquired changes also play a role. Their lucid and accessible text is accompanied by artist-physician Anna Zeligowski's lively drawings, which humorously and effectively illustrate the authors' points. Each chapter ends with a dialogue in which the authors refine their arguments against the vigorous skepticism of the fictional “I.M.” (for Ipcha Mistabra—Aramaic for “the opposite conjecture”). The extensive new chapter, presented engagingly as a dialogue with I.M., updates the information on each of the four dimensions—with special attention to the epigenetic, where there has been an explosion of new research. Praise for the first edition “With courage and verve, and in a style accessible to general readers, Jablonka and Lamb lay out some of the exciting new pathways of Darwinian evolution that have been uncovered by contemporary research.” —Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT, author of Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines “In their beautifully written and impressively argued new book, Jablonka and Lamb show that the evidence from more than fifty years of molecular, behavioral and linguistic studies forces us to reevaluate our inherited understanding of evolution.” —Oren Harman, The New Republic “It is not only an enjoyable read, replete with ideas and facts of interest but it does the most valuable thing a book can do—it makes you think and reexamine your premises and long-held conclusions.” —Adam Wilkins, BioEssays

Author : Michio Kaku
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Astrophysics
ISBN : 9780198785033

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Hyperspace by Michio Kaku Pdf

Reissued in new covers, this is the run-away bestseller from one of the world's leading theoretical physicists. Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Michio Kaku takes us on a tour of the most exciting work in modern physics, including research into the 10th dimension, time warps, and multiple universes, to outline what may be the leading candidate for the Theory of Everything.

Author : Richard M. Pico
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015053125319

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Consciousness in Four Dimensions by Richard M. Pico Pdf

Richard M. Pico unveils a revolutionary new approach to understanding consciousness that pinpoints its origins in the brain. Called Rbiological relativity, S the approach combines the laws of physics to the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience, molecular biology, and computational theory to create a coherent four-dimensional model for explaining the origins of life and the emergence of complex biological systems--from the living cell to the thinking brain.

Author : A.K. Dewdney
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461301998

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The Planiverse by A.K. Dewdney Pdf

A classic book about life in a two-dimensional universe, written by a well-known author. Now brought back into print in this revised and updated edition, the book is written within the great tradition of Abbott's Flatland, and Hinton's famous Sphereland. Accessible, imaginative, and clever, it will appeal to a wide array of readers, from serious mathematicians and computer scientists, to science fiction fans.

Author : Robin Le Poidevin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198752555

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Travels in Four Dimensions by Robin Le Poidevin Pdf

Does time really flow, or is that simply an illusion? Did time have a beginning? What does it mean to say that time has a direction? Do space and time really exist, or are they simply the constructions of our minds? Robin Le Poidevin provides a clear, witty, and stimulating introduction to these deep questions, and many other mind-boggling puzzles and paradoxes. No prior knowledge of philosophy is required to enjoy this book. The universe might seem very different after reading it.

Author : Rudy von Bitter Rucker,Rudy Rucker
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0395393884

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The Fourth Dimension by Rudy von Bitter Rucker,Rudy Rucker Pdf

A detailed description of what the fourth dimension would be like.

Author : Edwin Abbott Abbott
Publisher : E-Artnow
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8027388414

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Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott Pdf