- Last time: The Platonic Solids
Turn Amorous! Duality; the fact that the solids "pair up".
- Today: The Fourth Dimension
- What thoughts and questions do you have about the fourth
dimension? What is the "fourth dimension"?
- Sweeping out additional dimensions ("inked points")
- point (imprisoned!)
- point -> line (imprisoned by two points, each on one
side)
- line -> plane (imprisoned by a circle)
- plane -> three-space (imprisoned by a sphere)
- three-space -> the fourth dimension!
- Slicing and dicing: Problems I.1, I.2
- If there's time, we'll look at some other problems:
- Next time: Problems Pause
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