tesseract, geometric shape that is the four-dimensional equivalent of the three-dimensional cube.Because a tesseract cannot be accurately pictured in two or three dimensions, it is often approximated as a cube within a cube.. British mathematician Charles Howard Hinton first introduced the tesseract in his books A New Era of Thought (1888) and The Fourth Dimension (1904). More @Wikipedia
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