The Fourth Dimension
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | $2.99 | Drew Olbrich | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
The Fourth Dimension is a 30-page interactive book that explains a single mathematical idea in language that anyone can understand. Instead of static images or canned videos, this app employs a unique 3D touch interface that lets you literally grasp the concept of the fourth dimension with your own hands.
“Not only can you blow your own mind over and over again, you can also enjoy watching your friends’ minds being blown in front of you.” — Cult of Mac
“One of the coolest apps I've ever used... The Fourth Dimension is to boring learning apps what Carl Sagan's Cosmos was to staid science documentaries.” — BuzzFeed
“The app is very cool, and it's unlike pretty much anything we've seen in the App Store.” — The Verge
“This is one of my most favorite iOS apps ever.” — George Musser, contributing editor for Scientific American and author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory
(App Store user reviews follow.)
“Blew my mind. I generally don't use 'learning' apps as they're mostly gimmicks. This one, though, truly made me think. I hope this developer comes out with more outstanding apps such as this one. Bravo!” — Iceitic
“Astounding. That some people care passionately enough about tesseracts to go create a fantastic app for others to understand them is incredible. The app is extremely well designed, wittily written, and executed with love. That alone is worth buying it, besides the fact that I learned what the hell a tesseract was.” — Duncan MacMichael
“Fantastic! This is what someone really smart, and who really knows how to teach well, can do with a tablet. And the authors are funny, too, which is a neat bonus.” — DNY
“Fantastic app. I work at a leading UK university. If only all our material was this well written and presented. Definitely worth buying and then spending a bit of time with over a day or two to get your head around the fourth dimension. Great app!” — JulesFM
“Great job! This app does the best job explaining the 4th dimension. Why learn it in some boring classroom when here you can have an interactive and visual explanation.” — Aco Strklalj
Reviews
Interactive! No glitches
HarpBreaker Martini
Interactive! I’ve watched videos on tesseracts but to be able to move it yourself you are able to truly comprehend how it functions. The 3D element at the end brought me back to Magic Eye :)
I love this app!
Trey (T.E.B.)
I hope you can make a 5D app because I want to know all of the 5D shapes okay? Can you also add more 4D shapes to the app then only the tesseract? I always wanted to see more 4D shapes like the simplex/5cell. (5 faces)
One of the Best Apps, Period
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This review is long overdue but this app deserves all the praise in the world for explaining such tricky topics with so much art and clarity. As the saying goes, I’m not a numbers guy – I love science and math on principle but I’ve always been more qualitative – and this app rendered what for me have always been very tricky concepts in an easy to understand way. Plus the design is gorgeous and the atmospheric soundtrack give the subject matter the simplicity and mystical grandeur it deserves! Thank you for continually updating the app with each iteration of iOS. It’s a treasure - keep it alive!
Very well done
Bordwell
I’m no math geek, but this basic tutorial gave me a 3D understanding of the 4th dimension. Nice interactive graphics allow you to get a perspective of not only 4D, but how a 4D item brought into a 3D world by shadows helped me to better visualize this difficult concept to wrap my puny brain around.
Seriously one of the coolest apps!
RLEngineer
Mechanical Engineer. Very impressed by the concepts presented within this app.
