A mathematician's guided tour through higher dimensions

Re:A mathematician's guided tour through higher dimensions by jimmyvalmer on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:42PM (#28600448)

> I'm a highly visual thinker

Most people of average IQ say that.

> 4D object casts a 3D shadow. I can't wrap my head around that

No one can. I don't think you understand what a dimension is.

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Re:A mathematician's guided tour through higher dimensions by tenaciousDaniel on Monday September 20, 2021 @11:14PM (#28601733)

I'm not sure what the intent of this comment is, but it comes off as pompous and condescending.

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Re:A mathematician's guided tour through higher dimensions by AnimalMuppet on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:55PM (#28600532)

> > I'm a highly visual thinker

> Most people of average IQ say that.

I seriously question that. Can you point us to any evidence that people of average IQ are most often visual thinkers? (Or most often say that they're visual thinkers, if that's where you were going with this.)

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Re:A mathematician's guided tour through higher dimensions by jimmyvalmer on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:00PM (#28600556)

I cannot. I am merely calling out that fact that "I'm a visual thinker" is almost always used as a justification for not being able to keep up. Sort of like saying "My other car is a Porsche."

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Re:A mathematician's guided tour through higher dimensions by yissp on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:50PM (#28600864)

Is it not possible that different people will have an easier or harder time understanding different kinds of concepts? Maybe IQ favors a particular type of "non-visual" thinking. Or maybe IQ is just another pile of bullshit from the field of physchology.

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Re:A mathematician's guided tour through higher dimensions by coremoff on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @05:50AM (#28603447)

there are lots of people who are not visual thinkers - see "Aphantasia"

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