Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

by Matt Parker

That’s the problem with binary jokes: they either work, or they don’t.

Spreadsheets, however, are great at calculating these things, and soon we had a second column of several thousand triangle numbers. What a night! (Not that I encourage drinking and deriving.)

Join twelve pentagons, three to each vertex, and you will have your very own dodecahedron. At last, you will not have to use the communal one.

Leonhard Euler (pronounced ‘oil-er’; mispronouncing it will lose you several nerd points),

If you want to have a go at moving a 4D cube around for yourself, I suggest you try to solve a 4D Rubik’s Cube. Of course such a thing exists.

This isn’t because they become easier to visualize – far from it, high-dimensional objects will shank you in the visual cortex without a second thought

followed by things such as the comma, ampersand & exclamation mark!