Life, architecture, mathematics, and the fourth dimension

DOI10.1007/S00004-014-0221-9zbMATH Open1326.00053OpenAlexW2094682766MaRDI QIDQ895575FDOQ895575

Authors Snezana Lawrence

Publication date 4 December 2015

Published in Nexus Network Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-014-0221-9

zbMATH Keywords

tesseractdimensionalitypolyhedrapolytopesfourth dimensionantroposophyEuler's characteristicsFlatlandspiritualismtheosophySchläfli symbol

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Mathematics and architecture (00A67)

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