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The fourth dimension

author: Jos Leys
author: Étienne Ghys, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
author: Aurélien Alvarez, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
published: March 15, 2010,   recorded: July 2008,   views: 18458
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Mathematician Ludwig Schläfli talks to us about objects in the fourth dimension and shows us a procession of regular polyhedra in dimension 4, strange objects with 24, 120 and even 600 faces!

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