Comments on: Alicia Boole, Charles Hinton, and the Fourth Dimension (Ver 2)

By: linus r.

linus r. — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:03:29 +0000

La Vie de l’espace!!…. I have a first edition copy of Count Maurice Maeterlinck’s “The Life of Space” (1928)…. long out of print and very rare…. Maeterlinck was a Belgian playwright and poet-essayist that wrote in French…. also, the online “Project Gutenberg” has the complete text of Claude Fayette Bragdon’s book “Four Dimensional Vistas” (1930)….

By: david van brink

david van brink — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:00:52 +0000

Interestingly, this web page suggests that ol’ George Boole lived 149 years.

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/Museum/boole.html

Exactly one hundred years fewer than most sources report…

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:16:45 +0000

I was able to get a used copy of “Speculations on the Fourth Dimension” for $6 recently.

Alicia Boole Stott had a very interesting younger sister, according to Wkikpedia.
“Ethel Lilian, who married the Polish scientist and revolutionary Wilfrid Michael Voynich and is the author of the novel The Gadfly.”

Voynich is famous for the Voynich manuscript. Maybe he got it from the Fourth dimension?!

It would be interesting for me to know more about Hinton’s time in Japan.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:32:34 +0000

Today’s Geoffrey Hinton of Neural Network fame
is the great-great-grandson of logician George Boole, according to Wkikpedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton

By: Russ Van Rooy

Russ Van Rooy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:25:54 +0000

Jim Oster = James Newell Osterberg aka Iggy Pop…?

Also, presumably you have read a bunch of Coxeter, and possibly this book on him and his legacy: http://www.amazon.com/King-Infinite-Space-Coxeter-Geometry/dp/0802714994/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244496267&sr=8-4 ?

I enjoyed it a great deal. Ok. I’m done.