n-Dimensional Space.
When I became a professor, after 30 years of active research at
Bell Telephone Laboratories, mainly in the math research department,
I recalled that professors are supposed to think and digest past experiences.
So I put my feet up on the desk and began to consider my past. In the early
years I had been mainly in computing so naturally I was involved in many
large projects that required computing. Thinking about how things
worked out on several of the large engineering systems I was partially
involved in, I began, now that I had some distance from them,
to see that they had some common elements. Slowly I began to realize
that the design problems all took place in a space of n-dimensions,
where n is the number of independent parameters. Yes, we build
three dimensional objects, but their design is in a high dimensional
space, one dimension for each design parameter.
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