2 papers
physics.hist-ph2021
In what sense space dimensionality can be used to cast light into cultural anthropology?
Francisco Caruso, Roberto Moreira Xavier
Humans have always constructed spaces, through Mythos and Logos, as part of an aspiration to capture the essence of the changing world. This has been a permanent endeavour since th…
physics.hist-ph2021
The Fourth Dimension: From its spatial nature in Euclidean geometry to a time-like component of non-Euclidean manifolds
José Maria Filardo Bassalo, Francisco Caruso, Vitor Oguri
In this article, the evolution of the ideas about the fourth spatial dimension is presented, starting from those which come out within classical Euclidean geometry and going throug…