Surfing Through Hyperspace - Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons (Hardcover)

Characterizing hyperspace as the area where mathematics, physics and science fiction intercept, Pickover takes us on a fascinating journey into the mind-stretching realms of higher dimensions, where a whole new concept of intelligence and perception are required. Utilizing a quite amazing breadth of knowledge, Pickover links space-time wormholes, random walks and all of SF literature in his speculations on the higher dimensions. But the book remains accessible, never bogged down with mathematical equations, it's always buoyant with a remarkable panoply of ideas. For anyone attempting to grasp spatial dimensions beyond the known three, this remarkable document (weaving a science-fiction tale throughout its hardcore data) is unmissable. (Kirkus UK)

This book explains hyperspace and multidimensional geometries in an effort to help readers to manipulate, visualize, and think about the higher spatial dimensions that all serious physical theories since relativity have required. This book alternates sections explaining the science with a fictional story line that exemplifies, comments on, and helps to clarify the science. The book also features a number of appendices, including annotated guides to the literature and to relevant science fiction, further commentary on the mathematics of hyperspace, questions and puzzles, and source code for modeling hyperspace. The book has the goal to explain the science of hyperspace accurately, but it is light and playful in its approach.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1999
First published:	September 1999
Authors:	Clifford A. Pickover
Dimensions:	243 x 164 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	266
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-513006-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Popular astronomy Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Cosmology & the universe Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Space travel & exploration Promotions
LSN:	0-19-513006-5
Barcode:	9780195130065

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