A ___________is the term for a hypercube (four- dimensional analogue of a cube). This concept was featured in?

Question

the whimsical book A Wrinkle in Time.

Answer 1

Tesseract

Answer 2

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word “tesseract” was coined and first used in 1888 by Charles Howard Hinton in his book A New Era of Thought, from the Ionic Greek “τεσσερες ακτινες” (“four rays”), referring to the four lines from each vertex to other vertices.

Was also featured in movie Cube 2: Hypercube, released in 2002. Fragment of the movie description: ...The group discovers that the cubes are moving, not with lumbering slowness, but instantaneously. They realize they are inside a functioning tesseract in which gravity seems to shift, space distorts and time splits off into many separate paths...