Café Session by Department of Science and Humanities               

The Department of Science and Humanities conducted a Café session on August 24, 2024. The resource person, Mr. Kevin Pereira, Assistant Professor (Mathematics) delivered a session titled ‘Dimensions’ for the faculty and staff of the Department of Science and Humanities. He started with an introduction on Dimensions and stated that Mathematics is not always about the measurements but it is about understanding. He demonstrated that one dimension represents a line with only length, two-dimensions representing flat surfaces like squares and circles, having length and width (two coordinates: x, y), three- dimensions represents a object with length, width and height such as cubes and sphere, the space we commonly experience in our everyday lives and a fourth dimension should be mutually perpendicular to the existing three dimensions.

He briefly explained the existence of four-dimension which consists of four coordinates: x, y, z (the spatial coordinates) and t (time). He added that objects in four-dimensional space are beyond human visual perception but can be understood through mathematical models and projection. He also gave an example of a Tesseract, 4D analogue of a cube. The session was an interactive and engaging one, and was coordinated by Ms. Esta Pereira, Café Session Coordinator.