[Edu-sig] Namespaces in the Humanities

[Arthur]

kirby urner wrote:

>Why Fuller called it 4D instead of 3D is he was very impressed by the
>simple nature of the Tetrahedron, the fact that it had fewer faces,
>edges and vertices than the cube.  In the world of hard edges,
>skeletons, sticks, it seemed the simplest of shapes (not a new
>realization -- mathematicians often call it The Simplex).
>  
>
He renamed 3d, in an "I know something you don't" sort of way.

Paraphrasing Atanas, in another context:

Maybe he does, maybe he does't.

Art