Flatterland : like Flatland only more so / Ian Stewart.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Pub., c2001.Description: xi, 301 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 073820675X : PAP
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.914 21
LOC classification:
  • PR6069.T4588 F58 2001
Contents:
From Flatland to Flatterland -- Third dimension -- Victoria's diary -- Visitation -- Topologist's tea-party -- Along the looking-glass -- Grape theory -- What is a geometry? -- Platterland -- Cat country -- Paradox twins -- Domain of the hawk king -- Down the wormhole -- What shape is the universe? -- No-branes and p-branes -- Flatterland -- Tenth dimension.
Summary: Edwin Abott Abott's 1884 (Flatland) instantly became a classic of popular science and has not been out of print since. Contributing to a long line of sequels, Stewart (mathematics, U. of Warwick) tells of the narrator A. Square's great-great-granddaughter Vikky in a society rather like Britain and the US in the early 1960s, though with the Internet thrown in.
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Includes index.

From Flatland to Flatterland -- Third dimension -- Victoria's diary -- Visitation -- Topologist's tea-party -- Along the looking-glass -- Grape theory -- What is a geometry? -- Platterland -- Cat country -- Paradox twins -- Domain of the hawk king -- Down the wormhole -- What shape is the universe? -- No-branes and p-branes -- Flatterland -- Tenth dimension.

Edwin Abott Abott's 1884 (Flatland) instantly became a classic of popular science and has not been out of print since. Contributing to a long line of sequels, Stewart (mathematics, U. of Warwick) tells of the narrator A. Square's great-great-granddaughter Vikky in a society rather like Britain and the US in the early 1960s, though with the Internet thrown in.

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