Full name: The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes

Author: Rudy Rucker Year: 1984 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780395393888 0395393884

The Fourth Dimension -- it's a myth, a reality, a dream, an equation, a hypercube, the face of God, the photograph of everything at once ... and now, The Fourth Dimension is this handy paperback. The result is a fantastic, enlightening, and mind-expanding reading experience. In text, pictures, and puzzles, master science and science fiction writer Rudy Rucker immerses his readers in an amazing exploration of a mysterious realm -- a realm once seen only by mystics, physicists, and mathematicians. More accessible than Godel, Escher, Bach and more playful than The Tao of Physics, Rucker's The Fourth Dimension is the most engaging tour of other dimensions since Flatland. David Povilaitis' 200 drawings illustrate Rucker's heady insights while dozens of puzzles and problems make the book a delight to the eye and mind. As Eileen Pollack has written in her rave review, The Fourth Dimension is "magical ... Its effects persist beyond its covers." That's because, like everything else in the fourth dimension, this is more than a book, it is a mental spaceship capable of grand tours of universes far beyond our own. Similar books: Five Equations that Changed the World by Michael Guillen Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension by Rudolf V. B. Rucker The Infinite Book by John D. Barrow Lost in Math by Sabine Hossenfelder 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know by John D. Barrow The Ambidextrous Universe by Martin Gardner In Pursuit of the Unknown by Ian Stewart The Book of Nothing by John D. Barrow Chance and Chaos by David Ruelle Asimov on Numbers by Isaac Asimov Nature's Numbers by Ian Stewart Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences by Mary L. Boas The Calculus Diaries by Jennifer Ouellette Geekspeak by Graham Tattersall Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz by Edward B. Burger The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark The Big Picture by Sean Carroll Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking