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'Flatland' is a Victorian novel about social class and mathematics. A. Square, our narrator, is a scholar and introduces the reader to the civilization of Flatland, its people and character. He had led a normal life up until he was visited by Sphere and taken on a tour of several dimensions. After h...
First there was Martin Gardener, then there was Doug Hofstadter, then here was...this Dewdney dude. They were successive writers of the "recreational" column in Scientific American. Dewdney's was "Computer Recreations" and here they are, neatly collected up in a book and updated, too! Except the col...
First there was Martin Gardener, then there was Doug Hofstadter, then there was...this Dewdney dude. They were successive writers of the "recreational" column in Scientific American. Dewdney's was "Computer Recreations" and here they are, neatly collected up in a book and updated, too! Except the co...
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Flatland is a sort of metaphysical novel that uses the concept of higher dimensions as a metaphor for transcending a rigid class structure. The main character, A. Square, has lived his entire life in a two dimensional inhabited by simple geometrical shapes and in which one's social station is deter...
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