DANTE AND THE 3-SPHERE

被引:19
作者
PETERSON, MA
机构
[1] Department of Physics, Amberst College, Amherst, Massachuseth
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10.1119/1.11968
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
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040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
We describe three different methods of visualizing the “closed universe” S3, and point out language in Dante's Divine Comedy which suggests that he visualized his universe in the same ways, making his universe topologically S3. © 1979, American Association of Physics Teachers. All rights reserved.
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页码:1031 / 1035
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