Strange Spheres in Higher Dimensions - Numberphile

Why it was recommended

Numberphile[2] has a video on higher dimensional spheres which talks about this weirdness.

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What it covers

Matt Parker on Numberphile explains the strange properties of spheres in higher dimensions, such as how they poke out of their bounding boxes. It uses Pythagoras to build. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel

Numberphile

Length

10 min 33 sec

Year

2017

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