Spacing Out

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Gary Thompson mentions:
"Some early Heinlein (collection originally called "The Unpleasant
Profession of Jonathan Hoag," reissued about 1970 as _6XH_) included a
story about building a hypercube (called a tesseract in the story--don't
know if it's "really" called that)."


There were a couple of collections of stories edited by Martin Gardner that
deal with the logical improbabilities of topology--the study of surfaces:
tesseracts, moebius strips, and Klein bottles are only the surface signifiers
of these Escher-world narrative puzzles.

Oh yes, the kids in A WRINKLE IN TIME travel by means of a "tesseract" as
well, although the term is used more loosely than in the stories above.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)