The Four-Dimensional Mind of Alicia Boole Stott
Alicia Boole Stott was the daughter of a famous mathematician, and she inherited his skills. Her speciality was envisioning four-dimensional objects and how they would look as they passed through our three-dimensional world. Readers might be familiar with the concept of a sphere passing through a plane, famously illustrated in the book Flatland. Analogously, if one can imagine an object with four dimensions, it would manifest as a three-dimensional object of changing shape as it passed through our plane. Stott could envision these occurrences mentally, and she constructed cardboard models of the process. Much to their surprise, modern mathematicians using computers verified all her mental calculations. Download a small PDF about Stott and her powers at this link.
Alicia Boole Stott was the daughter of a famous mathematician, and she inherited his skills. Her speciality was envisioning four-dimensional objects and how they would look as they passed through our three-dimensional world.
Readers might be familiar with the concept of a sphere passing through a plane, famously illustrated in the book Flatland.
Analogously, if one can imagine an object with four dimensions, it would manifest as a three-dimensional object of changing shape as it passed through our plane.
Stott could envision these occurrences mentally, and she constructed cardboard models of the process. Much to their surprise, modern mathematicians using computers verified all her mental calculations.
Download a small PDF about Stott and her powers at this link.
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