![]() ![]() If you're a teenager (or an uncritical adult looking for "popcorn reading"), it's not a bad read. I really wouldn't consider mathematics important to this story at all they're only present in the way "science" is present in Star Trek - as a convenient and misapplied label for a deus ex machina plot device, in this case, travel through literary stories the author thinks sounds like fun. In fact, most people would agree that there isn't much that ![]() The book refers also to Cantor's approach to set theory, but doesn't get it ![]() Lilliput, Camelot, and many characters from earlier Heinlein novels. Those that we know through our fiction in this universe, including Oz, Particular reason, these alternate universes turn out to be made up of To alternate universes to escape those who now wish to kill him. Not only can Burroughs travel, he must travel Moreover, travel between universesĬan be achieved by application of linear operators which include rotation Spatial and three temporal, for symmetry) and hence (?)Ħ 6 6 universes. Mathematics involves the notion that there are in fact 6 dimensions (three ![]() Him travel to what we might consider "alternate universes". (click on names to see more mathematical fictionĮngineer and physicist Jacob Burroughs invents a time machine which lets A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston) ![]()
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