Low-Dimensional Topology
Someone awed by a tesseract is told it's 'only 4D,' since topologists count four dimensions as 'low.'
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024-01-01-low-dimensional-topology/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A (at a glowing tesseract): "An unfathomable object from the higher dimensions!" B: "What, that old thing? It's only 4D."
[Caption] "I'm still shaken from learning that 'low-dimensional topology' includes the fourth dimension."