The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: (9) n-Dimensional Space

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. To get more course content (notes, books, slides) visit: http://www.movesinstitute.org/~mcgred/HammingLearningToLearn/session.html or http://rouloconsulting.com/hamming