# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-howard-hinton
# Generated: 2026-09-02T10:49:00.591Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-howard-hinton"
name: "Charles Howard Hinton"
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description: "Charles Howard Hinton was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled Scientific Romances. He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension. He is known for coining the word \"tesseract\" and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions."
tagline: "British mathematician (1853–1907)"
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birthDate: "1853"
deathDate: "1907-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump