Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture

Re:Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjec... by gcr on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @10:04AM (#40367103)

yeah, nobody can visualize it. it's something you just get used to after a while.

there's an old joke about a mathematician teaching an engineer about thirteen-dimensional spaces. "What do you think," the mathematician asks. "My head's spinning," the engineer confesses. "How can you develop any intuition for thirteen-dimensional space?"

"Well, it's not so hard. All I do is visualize the situation in arbitrary N-dimensional space and then set N = 13."

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Re:Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjec... by philipswood on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @11:25AM (#40368205)

Geoffrey Hinton on visualizing higher dimensions:

"To deal with hyper-planes in a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it."

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