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Charles Howard Hinton

1853–1907

British mathematician and writer who spent years teaching people to picture the fourth dimension, with coloured cubes, and who coined the word tesseract in A New Era of Thought, 1888.

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Portrait: Studio of K. Yoshida, Kanazawa, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)

Patterns shaped by their work

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