
The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking
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ISBN: 9781118156599
Author: Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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Chapter 4.7, Problem 5MS
A bigger stack. If you take a huge number of different 17-dimensional spaces and stack them up, what do you get? Guess its dimension.
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The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking
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